CppCon 2017: Bjarne Stroustrup “Learning and Teaching Modern C++”

— We – attendees at CppCon – are all teachers. Some teach for a living; many occasionally teach a course or give a lecture; essentially all give advice about how to learn C or how to use C . The communities we address are incredibly diverse. What do we teach, and why? Who do we teach, and how? What is “modern C ”? How do we avoid pushing our own mistakes onto innocent learners? Teaching C implies a view of what C is; there is no value-neutral teaching. What teaching tools and sup