Probably Not. I have to agree with the need to learn low-level coding. I got into this game with a two year degree from a state tech college. At the time they were churning out business programmers to go into the IBM 360/370 world. We took business type courses (lot's of accounting and managerial courses). BUT.... although we learned cobol,rpg and fortran as programming courses there was also a REQUIREMENT for THREE semesters of 360/370 assembler. That particular requirement taught me how computers work internally...then 15 + years of primarily c coding...these are the things that make it possible today for it to be 'just a matter of syntax'.
And... I am of the opinion (all have one, all stink) that all the logic courses in the world can't teach someone to 'be' logical. That's something that we're born with (left brain/right brain stuff!). I can't draw a stick figure, but i seem able to look at any mess and see the process in it. This makes me (opinion again) a pretty good analyst, which is the ability that really makes a good computer professional. I'm doing VB.NET stuff now (and, admittedly, getting more coding done quicker than in the 'C' days), but underneath all the CLR, Java Runtime, whatever, there's still a computer with 1's and 0's!
Michael Comperchio