In Poland we had c++ as part of the curriculum around the ages 16-19. Granted, all projects were just simple algorithms, like for sorting digits and finding the shortest paths, but still.
Same in sweden some time ago around 2007. I wonder why they didn't picked like C, BASIC or Pascal or something. C++ feels very unforgiving as a starter language.
10 years later when I worked as a substitute teacher it was PHP instead which felt more odd as a starting general programming language ...
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In Poland we had c++ as part of the curriculum around the ages 16-19. Granted, all projects were just simple algorithms, like for sorting digits and finding the shortest paths, but still.
Same in sweden some time ago around 2007. I wonder why they didn't picked like C, BASIC or Pascal or something. C++ feels very unforgiving as a starter language.
10 years later when I worked as a substitute teacher it was PHP instead which felt more odd as a starting general programming language ...