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- From: rudd@mindspring.com (Justin Rudd)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for compiler for HS students
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:04:45 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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- bkeiffer@shentel.net (Bryan Keiffer) wrote:
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- >I am looking for recommendations for a compiler to be used to teach
- >c++ to high school students. The machines they will be using will
- >most likely be Pentium machines with 16 Meg of RAM. Objects, classes,
- >etc. are not really an issue. At this level students just need to
- >learn the syntax and basic programming concepts.
- >Since I will be taking a c++ course this summer, it follows that I
- >currently do not know the language, but I need to make a
- >recommendation for the software purchase.
- >My solution is to ask the people who know. Borland, Microsoft, GNU ?
- >Help!
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- The lastest version of Borland's Turbo C++. It is a good compiler and
- linker, has an OK debugger ( but if all they are learning is syntax
- then debugging isn't a big deal ) and best of all compared to BC++ 5.0
- or MSVC++ 4.0. It is cheap. Now it isn't free like GNU...but it is a
- breeze to work in. I used it and still use it for simple programs.
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- Justin Rudd
- rudd@mindspring.com
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- It'll work...trust me ;-)
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