Ask HN: C++ in Intro Class to Programming and Writing Code at Exams on a Paper?

My local university is undergoing through CS curriculum/program updates, but they still hold very tight onto the idea of teaching Programming Intro with C++ and writing code at exams on paper which the staff manually type into editor, compile and check for "correctness".

I find this practice utterly unjustified.

What do you think?

I'm quite concerned about the fact that many(and I mean it) students do actually ditch the idea of becoming programmer after failing in that very class.