> This release of Turbo C++ was released in 1990.. That said, this project is still pretty impressive for an HS student, even if it's written in ancient C++ and

> This release of Turbo C++ was released in 1990.. That said, this project is still pretty impressive for an HS student, even if it's written in ancient C++ and requires DOS to run :) I agree it's unfortunate that schools are/were slow in catching up to a modern programming environment. This highschooler's project was made in 2015, so the students were learning a language standard/platform that was a couple decades behind. It makes the project even more impressive, given the technical constraints that the student had to work with, in addition to their young age. It's a good example of the "hacker" spirit that we encourage on HN. Software (and hardware I imagine) engineers deal with similar situations often, having to work around the limitations of legacy codebases or platforms, challenging what it can be made to do. Another comment mentioned that some schools moved to teach PHP instead of C++. Granted that's an improvement in some aspects to Turbo C++ 3.0, I think the latter might have been better in terms of learning the real fundamentals.