Teaching C++ to high school students

Authors:
David Finkel;Chet Hooker;Scott Salvidio;Mark Sullivan;Christopher Thomas
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Venue:
SIGCSE '94 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1994

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Abstract

C++ was used to teach programming to beginning programming students in a summer program for high-ability high school students. We discuss the reasons for choosing C++, how we presented it to this group of students, and the results of this experiment. Some suggestions are presented for others interested in teaching C++ to novice programmers.