@dizzy @b0rk a lot of lesson plans are written once and not really touched except where necessary

That, and the CS field has a sizable rift between academia and practicianers, so educators can be out of date

This is of course colored by my experience, but it is very unusual for me to see someone use a `short` in code (a C/C++ compiler will generally promote it to an `int` at the first opportunity anyway), though `uint16_t` in an interface happens where appropriate