It's too complicated IMO. The surface to cover is absolutely huge. Teaching complete novices to program is complicated enough, explaining the difference between

It's too complicated IMO. The surface to cover is absolutely huge. Teaching complete novices to program is complicated enough, explaining the difference between char * and std::string and how a char is not really a char if you deal with unicode and OOP and destructors and exceptions and virtual calls and global constructors and RAII and templates and overloading and... I think it would make more sense to start with a simpler language and work your way to C++ if that's what you want.