3 Context and Aim of This Guide

This document is intended to serve as a resource for instructors to assist in the preparation of courses on C++ in a variety of settings, including university, college, and industry environments. The main objectives of this document are as follows:

• to provide guidelines for content to be covered by courses of various difficulty levels on C++ (e.g., topics and learning outcomes)
• to note some common misunderstandings and problematic points that may be encountered when teaching particular topics
• to suggest resources useful for teaching C++
• to present examples of curriculum for specific courses

This document does not itself provide a curriculum for a single specific course, but is rather a set of guidelines that can be used to prepare curricula for a wide variety of courses that differ in focus and level of sophistication. (This said, however, some links to other documents with examples of curricula for specific courses may be included herein.) This document only intends to target the teaching of the most recently ratified version of the C++ standard. (This said, however, since older versions of this document are also available, these older versions may be of some use to those who need guidance in older versions of the standard, at least versions that do not predate C++20.)