Will C and C++ be taught at treehouse one day?

The Objective-C/iOS courses could arguably be said to already covering C. I'd certainly be interested in C++ though, although for right now I assume it's deviating too much from the prime purpose of Treehouse delivering tutorials related to web based and mobile based technologies. It would be awesome to see them expand that though to desktop based stuff that would certainly justify C++.

There is already a very small introduction to C basics at the start of learning Objective C under the iOS course.

Objective C Basics (C Fundamentals)

If you REALLY want to learn C right now I'd go buy this book. I've read through some of it, it has helped me to better understand what's going on 'under the hood' in most code.

The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) Paperback – 22 Mar 1988 by Brian W. Kernighan (Author), Dennis Ritchie (Author)

C and C++ are not modern languages.Its very hard to create something good looking and atractive in C++.You have to use something like OPENGL which is not easy to learn and since C++ cant be used for web programming i think that it is going to be hard for teamtreehouse to make code challenges for C++. C is used mostly for algorithms.If you want to be good at C you have to be good in algorithmic thinking because there is not much to learn for the language itself. :)

C and C++ are both compiled languages which would be a little difficult to replicate in the browser. While they are great languages they are rare on the web. C is mainly used for operating systems, compilers, and speedly libraries for other langauges (among other things this was just off the top of my head). C++ is great for long term group projects and works very well for GUI's using things like QT. In my opinion it would be better for treehouse to focus on popular web language and technologies and to expand those libraries. If you wish to learn more about C or C++ you could always check out http://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm which has a ton of resources on both and many more languages.

@Ricky Catron, but what language do you think iPhone/iPad apps are built with? Objective C is just a superset of C. It's the same language. That's why C is taught at treehouse, since besides Java it's the most required language for mobile devices. :)

And the point about C++ is that it's not a huge stretch since Treehouse already teach and test compiled languages (I'm not sure why you think it would be an issue that it's compiled if Treehouse are already got code challenges for them). So going from native mobile device apps it would make sense to go from teaching Java and C as they currently do to C++ to cover more devices. Which in themselves may tie into web based apps (think of say something like Evernote, a web based app with native apps for mobile and desktop, I could see Treehouse basically teaching the whole ecosystem).

I'm not saying it's possible to teach them, I'm saying Treehouse ALREADY teaches them. You're basically saying Treehouse shouldn't teach something that it already teaches, take a look at the C course. As for C relation to Objective C that's why I said it's a superset and it's why Treehouse does teach C because it's not C-based/evolved like Java (although Treehouse teaches Java too because of its importance to mobile) but an actual superset.

C and iOS aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not sure what languages you think people need for mobile but C is essentially the language needed for iOS (out of programming in C++, C# and Java, Objective C to me is the one exactly the same as when I used to write in C). And as far as Java, the impending Java track is most likely going to cover desktop apps so whatever we think Treehouse is, it seems they will be going in that direction too anyway.

Some very interesting responses :) would be great to hear a treehouse teachers perspective

No problem :) this was supposed to be a debate