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<lemahieu@paradise.caltech.edu> writes:

>Siegfried Heintze <72740.1365@compuserve.com> wrote:
>[snip]
>>I not sure I feel good about the people at Columbia (or whereever) 
>>encouraging students to learn C++, but we have no control over that. The 
>>fact is that by 1997 there will be an advanced placement exam in C++ and I 
>>suspect very, very few high school teachers know C++ let alone C.
>[snip]


>An AP test in C++?  That sounds so strange as to be ridiculous.  I can't
>imagine an AP test in any specific language.  AP tests are for gaining
>college credit for high school courses based on the AP test score.
>C++ is not a course in any CS department I've had exposure to.  There
>are programming courses taught using C++, C, Pascal, etc, and object oriented
>programming courses taught using C++, etc.  I can imagine an AP test for
>object oriented programming, or in basic computer science, but in C++?

C++ is a course at Carnegie Mellon University.  There are several intro to
programming courses because the majority of students have to take one even
if they are going into some other field (like civil e, or math) The CS majors
are required to take 15-127 Intro to Programming (in C++) and people who are
only taking the class because they are required to and won't take any more
CS can take 15-125 C++ programming. There is also a 15-200 which is just an 
overview of a language, but I'm not sure if it is in C++ yet.