CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C“

— Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — To this day most people who set out to help others learn C start with “introduction to C“ material. I think this actively contributes to bad C code in the world. For the past few years I’ve been teaching C (and making suggestions to folks who intend to teach themselves) in an entirely different way. No char* strings, no strlen, strcmp, strcpy, no printf,