C++ in eight weeks

  • Authors:
  • Kailash Chandra

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A course on Object-Oriented programming in C++ was taught for the first time in the summer of 1992 at Pittsburg State University in the Computer Science - Information Systems Department. This paper is based on that experience. It presents the course description, the topics covered, the computational environment, the evaluation activities, the programming assignments, the tests given, and the student evaluations. It is found that the course can be successful if many problems are done from the very beginning and various projects are assigned first without the class concept and then with the class concept. It is also felt that a first course in programming using C++ could be as successful as Pascal, while using C may not be a good idea in the first course.