Programming is the easy part, and a useless skill on its own.
What? Even if design and implementation are also important that doesn’t mean programming is useless on its own, and I would say that if your goal is to create a program then programming is probably the most important skill you need.
If you can only program in one language, you can’t program.
This some kind of weird gatekeeping? If I get hired to program in Python, and know no other languages, I am still a programmer.
C++ is the single best language to learn programming.
Says who? What’s your goal of learning a programming language? This is a silly statement.
Stupid mistakes you make are not bugs, at least not for you.
Funny, I think C++ is literally the worst language to learn programming. I would go with JS or OCaml at first, then Rust if they need manual memory management.
I thought about explaining why, but ultimately decided against it. Felt like it would take much of the hotness out of the take :D
My rationale is that C++ not only implements pretty much every concept there is, it allows for high- as well as low-level programming. That way you can learn bottom-up or top-down… Or both! Whatever suits you. You can also use it for pretty much anything and natively on pretty much any platform. That’s especially great for students with tons of different devices who don’t know what they want to do later. And it has a lot of strange, basically deprecated stuff built in you can use as curious examples and to make the learning process more interesting.
Finally, if you can deal with C++, you can deal with anything. It is a horrible yet beautiful language.
Programming is the easy part, and a useless skill on its own.
If you can only program in one language, you can’t program.
C++ is the single best language to learn programming.
Stupid mistakes you make are not bugs, at least not for you.
What? Even if design and implementation are also important that doesn’t mean programming is useless on its own, and I would say that if your goal is to create a program then programming is probably the most important skill you need.
This some kind of weird gatekeeping? If I get hired to program in Python, and know no other languages, I am still a programmer.
Says who? What’s your goal of learning a programming language? This is a silly statement.
Bugs are bugs regardless of who fixes them.
I guess it was some good hot takes after all.
(And I agree with all you counter points)
Funny, I think C++ is literally the worst language to learn programming. I would go with JS or OCaml at first, then Rust if they need manual memory management.
I thought about explaining why, but ultimately decided against it. Felt like it would take much of the hotness out of the take :D
My rationale is that C++ not only implements pretty much every concept there is, it allows for high- as well as low-level programming. That way you can learn bottom-up or top-down… Or both! Whatever suits you. You can also use it for pretty much anything and natively on pretty much any platform. That’s especially great for students with tons of different devices who don’t know what they want to do later. And it has a lot of strange, basically deprecated stuff built in you can use as curious examples and to make the learning process more interesting.
Finally, if you can deal with C++, you can deal with anything. It is a horrible yet beautiful language.
C++ makes programming look way harder than it actually is.