I majored in EE at UT Austin around 2000, and our intro programming class was C++. I doubt there was a good rationale for it other than to cause rapid attrition

I majored in EE at UT Austin around 2000, and our intro programming class was C++. I doubt there was a good rationale for it other than to cause rapid attrition of EE majors. I never again used C++ in my studies or professionally. Learning C would have been much more helpful for my later embedded systems classes.