There are some computer science programs which use C++ as the language for the introductory courses and I feel great pity for those students what a horrible way to be introduced to programming
@wallhackio our class did this and even at the time i felt like they should have just done C instead
@wallhackio it’s wild to go through a basic computer science class and still not be able to read a single file of C code because they never REALLY taught you how malloc() and friends worked
@Lady @wallhackio the cornell CS curriculum saves that kind of thing fur the purrerequisite course that gatekeeps the major (and minor) and i think this is purrobably the way to do it
@aescling @wallhackio as C or as C++? because these are very different beasts
@aescling @wallhackio curious what there is to teach here
@Lady @wallhackio you build a microprocessor that interpurrets MIPS assembly so C is taught mostly insofar as it is useful fur understanding how it get translated into (MIPS) assembly
@Lady @wallhackio (you build it in logisim not as actual hardware)
@aescling @wallhackio i don't think learning how a specific C compiler infrastructure works and learning C are the same thing at all
@Lady @wallhackio C