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Comment by zelphirkalt

21 hours ago

Omg, switching to C++ for pupils programming beginners ... "How to turn off the most students from computer programming?" 101. Really can't get much worse than C++ for beginners.

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pjmlp  1 hour ago

Back in the 1990's, C++ used to be taught at high school students and first year university students.

nightfly  18 hours ago

PSU (Oregon) uses C++ as just "c with classes" and ignores the rest of C++ for intro to programming courses. It frustrates people who already use C++ but otherwise works pretty well.

  • tialaramex  6 hours ago

    We should distinguish "First language" classes (for Computer Scientists who will likely learn many other languages and are expected to graduate knowing enough to just pick up another language with self study in reasonable time) from "Only language" classes for subjects where you might find it useful to write some software. These have different goals, it wouldn't make sense to teach say, OCaml as the only language but it's entirely reasonable as a first language.

  • Izkata  8 hours ago

    This was how we learned it in an intro class in highschool ages ago, worked pretty well there too.