re: What about C++ Projects?

orcmid — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:42:47 GMT

I share Juan's thinking, but it needs to be tied to running code so the emergence/evocation of the patterns can be experienced.

My first thought, though, was that anything done here should probably show up on CodePlex and maybe even Coding4Fun.

My second thought was that designing mazes and maze solvers is also nice. I think it works without explicit pointers (e.g., refs to objects used as data structures would work), but seeing the invariants for lists structures work under insertion and deletion is always a good demonstration case. This just came up on John Montgomery's blog from the Non-Professional Team (NPT): http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/2006/06/28/645896.aspx

And finally, I don't understand the resurgence in C/C++ interest either. It would be useful to know what is at the source of that. (I'm not unhappy about it, just puzzled.)

re: What about C++ Projects?

Juan — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:01:35 GMT

I would think that projects stressing patterns or alorithms would be good. How about teaching some OO basics and then helping enforce that by working on a project that implements the given pattern.

Would be a shame for students to learn the syntax but learn no design elements.