This gem a couple of paragraphs later on OOP:

"This approach has magically brought about an evolution in the software world."

Magic. 😆

A couple of pages later, listing characteristics of C++:

I suppose this definition also serves to illustrate recursion. 😀

A rather interesting first C++ program. 😢

[From an actual CS intro textbook. No surprise, it doesn't compile in any compliant C++ compiler in any version of C++, all the way back to C++98: https://godbolt.org/z/x4Kc3x8sh]

[Of course, void main works in MSVC but "iostream.h" and unqualified cout?]

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Not surprised to see the claim that "C++ is a superset of C" in this book.

Also, C++ programmers should know they're a privileged bunch.

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Words fail me, and my worry for students grows. 😢

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Ah yes, we can use the exit function to end a program. I just wasn't expecting to find it discussed in a textbook for a CS intro course, that too about 20% of the way in. 🤦‍♂️

[FWIW, I don't recall ever using the exit function in all my programming.]

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I don't quite get why intro C++ courses teach arrays, 2-dimensional arrays no less.

In the same vein, why teach null-terminated strings (beyond literals)? They have so many pitfalls that even the authors can't keep things straight. 😢

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Ahem. A C++ void function *must not* include a return statement.

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EDIT: please see the reply from @glloyd and my reply to that. I apologize for, in being brief, suggesting that a void function cannot at all have a return statement.
https://elk.zone/fosstodon.org/@glloyd/110299354968932782

"Teaching C++ is easy. After all, I know C."

Also, that reason to declare functions: 🤦‍♂️

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"You keep using that word "template" in unfortunately incorrect/confusing ways." 😢

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