Wouldn't say a lot of people use it for an introduction to programming, but I've personally seen it appear quite early in the programmers journey. I was first

Wouldn't say a lot of people use it for an introduction to programming, but I've personally seen it appear quite early in the programmers journey. I was first exposed to compilers as a learning subject as a mandatory 2nd year/1st semester course; with the Dragon Book as the main textbook...