C++ for the new student?
<p>I'm taking a CS 101 course at my local university, and it looks like every CS class at this school uses C++, and little else. I find my course feeling much more like an intro to C++ than a CS course like I find through the likes of academicearth.com. Also in talking with those in software engineering, I get the advice to stay away from C, C++, and Objective-C because you spend your time not trying to F-things up rather than learn concepts and create. Rather the new student should learn a scripting language initially or perhaps C#. I'm wondering what the greater software engineering community recommends on this topic?</p>
