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Programmer here. I just found out that the school I'm transferring to uses C++ for their courses. Anyone have experience with getting professors to allow you to do the homework in other languages? I want to use Python instead of shitty C++.  (Feel free to recommend a better language.)

Scheme

Write an interpreter in C++ and just keep using it.

>>3
Actually, just use C and claim it's C++

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Are there "westaboos" in Japan?
Is this even a question? Of course.

>>5
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>>7
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>>7
Why doesn't this have anything to do with Shakespeare?

cudder best practice for C++ programming is to use <cstdio> instead of <iostream>

>>7
Deviantart quality.

>>10

C++ was made to support C, so no one can stop me from using <stdio.h>.

>>1
Sorry to be harsh, programmer-san, but: the answer will be "no," and simply asking the question will make you appear to be someone who's not serious about the subject.

If C++ programming is an obstacle, then you're in the wrong major. Nobody's asking you to enjoy it. It's just a college course: you complete an assigned task within specified parameters, and move on to the next one. You want to be an individual, an artist---but is a homework assignment really the proper context? Look at the bigger picture. You think that C++ is a "shitty" language, yet you are paying to learn at an institution which (like so many others) has chosen C++ as a standard educational language. Do you think yourself smarter than your professors? If so, why not just leave? Or are these courses merely a means to an end: a degree, leading to a job where you can express yourself more fully, or at least a job which gives you the cash to do so on your own time? In that case, who cares what language is used? Choose your battles wisely. And if you can suck it up, you might be surprised to learn some new things along the way. C++ may have its problems, but its success was not an accident. Moreover, overcoming the challenges inherent in C++ programming will make you a better programer overall.

I say these things not to hurt, but to help---for I, too, was once young. May you find true success in life!

>>13
And if any offense was taken, please accept my humble apologies, programmer-san. We are, after all, only on the Internets.

>>11
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=22219425

Every programming class I've taken, I have implemented each assignment in the language requested as well as another language suited to the task, and turned in both.

I found it a fun challenge to pick a different language every time, usually ones I'm not thoroughly familiar with - it's good exercise, especially for easy assignments. Got into an interesting discussion with a professor, ended up teaching them some introductory Haskell. (This professor's focus was networking and OOP stuff)

>>13
Sepples is still shit.