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CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"

CppCon·Length: 1 hour1:00:11·C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

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Kate Gregory argues at CppCon 2015 that C++ should be taught without starting from C: no char* strings, printf or raw arrays at first, with references before pointers.

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