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I think C++ is a terrible language choice for an intro to CS class

• b20000 3y ago
  we started with scheme, then C and then C++
• afjeafaj848 3y ago
  What about C? In my engineering program everyone started with C and I'm actually glad in retrospect. Gives you a good understanding of the whole stack.
  • ativzzz 3y ago
    C is better than C++ but I think you can more gently introduce people to programming with an easier language like python or ruby and move on to C to learn memory management and typing once they understand variables, functions, basic logic etc But we generally teach computer science instead of just programming so we don't have separate classes