You have a great standard library; you don't need manual memory management, because this is an introductory course; the error messages are admittedly bad, but n

You have a great standard library; you don't need manual memory management, because this is an introductory course; the error messages are admittedly bad, but not that terrible if you are not using templates. I'm not particularly fond of C++, but if you intend to teach the basics of programming and data structures, it's a decent language.