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One of their two intro programming classes uses C++.

• monocasa 9y ago
  Can you elaborate? I feel like depending on who you asked, that could be a point for or a point against.
  • hexane360 9y ago
    The class was CSCI261. It used this curriculum: http://www.zybooks.com/catalog/programming-in-c-plus-plus/ http://www.zybooks.com/catalog/programming-in-c-plus-plus/ It was mainly an elective for non-CS majors, so there was a lot of people with no experience and no future in programming. I think it spent way too much time on syntax and minutiae to be a really good introduction. It spent a really brief time talking about compiled instructions, stacks, etc. but not really enough to justify C++, imo. It shoved pointers into a couple days at the end of the semester. A lot of final questions were things like std::string member functions or construct syntax (for, switch).
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• Xorlev 9y ago
  The real intro course is taught in Python (CS101), all bulletins after 2011 require CS101. But you're correct, CS201 and 202 (numbers might be wrong, it's a long time...) were both C++ courses. Intro to Programming and Data Structures. IMO, C++ was appropriate for Data Structures, but perhaps not CS201. Later, all instruction is more or less in Java, MIPS assembler, or Python. And a little Scheme/Racket.