This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Somenath Mukhopadhyay
Have a look at the screenshot...
Wrote this post at Quora almost 6 years ago.
Here's the link...
Today I asked ChatGPT about the latest status...
and to my surprise, I got the above answer...
I am a software professional with many years of experience. Now I train and coach others in different software technologies. Many of my students are from CBSE 10+2 and they use Turbo C++ at school.
When I asked them why their school is still using it, they said probably the CBSE board has asked the schools to do so.
This is really a dangerous trend - training students with obsolete technologies. Turbo C++ is really prehistoric and it does not have the standard header files of modern C++ (like std :: string). I am not sure why CBSE has not banned Turbo C++ in school.
While at my training institute, I use Eclipse with CDT plugin alongside Cygwin & GCC compiler and I install the same on my students’ computers, but this should be a normal way of dealing with software rather than an exception.
No wonder the Indian graduates mostly have half-baked knowledge and remain unemployable for a long time till they learn by rote learning about a few historical events and general knowledge and crack an equally boring Govt. job…
Babus in the Department of Education must be progressive.
It's time for a collective introspection - there is no shortcut to build skills - many night outs in front of a computer is the only answer. To clean up the swamp we must shake up the education system as practised in today's Bharat...
Is anybody listening?
Wake up, please - or else the news like the Rs. 20000 salary per month for a fresh engineering graduate which is even less than that of a driver or a house maid, will dominate the Indian corporate sectors.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Somenath Mukhopadhyay
Somenath Mukhopadhyay | Sciencx (2025-09-02T06:02:50+00:00) Why is Turbo C++ still being used in Indian schools and colleges?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/09/02/why-is-turbo-c-still-being-used-in-indian-schools-and-colleges/
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