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My school teaches C++ on TC++ 3.1, The syllabus for CS hasn't changed since about 20 years. 80586 Pentium is still cutting edge in there.
by DefNotMe 4y ago
My school teaches C++ on TC++ 3.1,
The syllabus for CS hasn't changed since about 20 years.
80586 Pentium is still cutting edge in there.
- myth_drannon 4y agoIs it in India? I was buffled when I found a lot of recent Youtube videos teaching Turbo C. Then realized all of them were Indian and for Indian students.
- pjmlp 4y agoYeah, on one side we are trying to preach modern practices how to program in C++, and then we get these schools teaching pre-standard C++ for a dead OS.
- dwringer 4y agoI encountered this about 10 years ago here in the US. The course seemed to have become a kind of Kobayashi Maru - nobody else in my group ever even managed to get a working installation of the compiler, which we had to do in a Windows XP VM (there was some way of getting a license for a copy of XP but almost nobody in the class seemed to get it to work for some reason).
- ihatepython 4y agoPersonally I don't believe in the no-win situation