Hello HN.<p>My local university is undergoing through CS curriculum/program updates, but they still hold very tight onto the idea of teaching Programming Intro with C++ and writing code at exams on paper which the staff manually type into editor, compile and check for "correctness".<p>I find this practice utterly unjustified.<p>What do you think?<p>I'm quite concerned about the fact that many(and I mean it) students do actually ditch the idea of becoming programmer after failing in that very class.
This is a bad idea. because one missing comma could screw up the program not mention which compilers they would likely run the program.<p>That being said if you are comfortable with basics you can learn a lot from this book<p><a href="http://www.keithschwarz.com/coursereader.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.keithschwarz.com/coursereader.pdf</a>