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Re: [TCLUG:13004] AP Comp. Sci.



Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net> writes:

> C++ is not a bad language, but it is still low level enough that it should
> not be used as an initial CS teaching language.

It is if you're trying to teach OO programming.  I learned C++ in college and
it was taught as an OO language and things just seemed backwards until I
leared a language that's closer to true OO, like Java.  Although I know
smalltalk is much better, it isn't used much outside of research.

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Jon Schewe 
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