{{Programming Stream Index | 20111}}

Keeping up with the language standards

* the standard that we currently teach in our C courses is C89

* C99 introduced several new features and deprecated several features

** as of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft had no plans to support C99

* the standard that we teach is a mixture of pre-standard C++ and C++98

** C and function style casts are deprecated in C++98

* shouldn't we remove our dependencies on pre-standard C++ in preparation for C++0x

* what are the minimum requirements for game programming students ?

* are those requirements being met ?

* should workshops be added to these courses

* should we issue game programming certificates

* what are the minimum requirements for open source students ?

* are those requirements being met ?

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