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Originally posted by absorbation
Why teach C when you can teach a better language with more functions that is now used more today.
Any programming course for persons without prior programming experience (which, I assume, is what this is) will spend a lot of time dealing with general programming concepts -- different types of variables, what are functions and how to use them, loops and conditional statements, and so forth. It so happens these are the things that overlap between C and C++.
Where there are differences on that level, C++ ways are often more confusing to a novice.
For example, a C++ course would be obligated to use streams (cout << "Hello world!") instead of stdio.h (printf("Hello world!"). Realize that the student is likely to see the above long before they've been told anything about operator overloading. I'd hate to be the instructor having to explain
how the C++ way works at that point, should an observant student inquire why we are using the bitwise left shift operator in a funny way.
