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- From: javier5@ibm.net
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C++ as introductory programming language
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 20:15:26 GMT
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- In <4j999p$nbl@sullivan.ucc.hull.ac.uk>, Warren Viant <W.J.Viant@dcs.hull.ac.uk> writes:
- >I'm currently formulating a case to use C++ as the first
- >programming language for our first year undergraduate degree
- >course in computer science. Do any members of the group have any
- >comments/references, both for and against C++ as the first
- >language.
-
-
- I would say that C or C++ are both ad choices for a first language.
- For a first language I would think that an easier language like Pascal
- will be better. You want students to learn about the basic elements
- of programming such as loops, decition and branching without getting
- lost in cryptic syntax. Furthermore C++ takes much longer to compile
- than Pascal (at least the compilers I have used). Someone learning
- a new language may make many mistakes so the compilation time
- is an issue.
-