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 strange to use C++ then.
Also I am curious what language would you use to teach new programmers basic software concepts
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@wallhackio @Lady the authors of how to design purrograms heavily advocate the pedagogical use of very simplified lisps as teaching languages
@aescling @wallhackio this is the idea behind Racket; i’m not sure i agree but i do think lisps should be a required 200-level course