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General Discussion

ka11
ka11
4,205 Points
Posted by ka11
ka11
4,205 Points

Why hasn't Treehouse uploaded courses that teach us C++ and/or C?

Treehouse has tons of contents to offer but why didn't they produce courses that tutor us C/C++? Treehouse, no matter what, will stay my best website to learn how to program.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,186 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,186 Points

This comes up now and then. Have you seen the previous posts like this one and the staff responses to them?

In one particular previous question I posted a few other resources you might like to check out.

1 Answer

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

Hi, I am a computer science student and C is the main language of my degree. "Isn't that outdated why do they do that?" In C there aren't anywhere near as many features as a modern language, and we do the degree with that so that anything we need to use for our code, we make it. We get the understanding of every part of a piece of software we use and we can't use any libraries that exist, just our own code. C is great, fast and powerful, but it takes time to write things and it is rarely used. You have specific industries like developing lower level stuff, however here at treehouse it seems the majority of the function is on new technologies, and consumer facing ones, to give you job skills

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,186 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,186 Points

I don't think it's quite accurate to say "it's rarely used" in general, but you can certainly make a case for it not being used much in web applications, which is the main focus of the training offered here.

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

Sorry yeah that was what I was getting at, just poorly worded. I also think the fact that a lot of the modern programming done in C is lower level that it is a bit harder to get a grasp of and the knowledge needed to understand it isn't covered here yet.