The C++ programming language in modern computer science

Abstract

This thesis has studied the C++ programming language’s usefulness in modern computer science both in suitability for developers and education by overviewing its history and main features and comparing it to its main alternatives. The research was mainly conducted with literature reviews and methods used for studying the subject where both quantitative in form of performance analysis and qualitative in the form of analysis of non-numeric attributes. This thesis has found that the C++ programming language is a very capable programming language for overall development, but the language’s popularity has shifted towards system-level programming while the language is losing popularity for higher-level applications. The C++ programming language is also quite complex, making it too difficult to learn for beginners. Despite the complexity, the C++ programming language remains a very good language in terms of education for students of computer science because the language gives a good overview of programming as a whole.