In his Thursday talk, Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language, emphasized the need for three different types of introductory computer science classes.

My biggest issue with it is that “programming in C++” can just mean so many different things nowadays, from a trivial “C with classes” style to writing code that will make Perl look like ...

and the FBI have advised businesses not to use the popular C and C++ programming languages, citing security concerns. The ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

De-allocation is performed thus: delete[] pointer; pointer = NULL; Again, assigning NULL to the pointer after deallocation is just good programming practice. Another option for managing dynamic memory ...