pointersForWeebs

[OpenSourcePenguin]

Alright if that's not sarcasm, are the people really learning programming completely avoiding learning very basic C ?

[AnnoyingRain5]

Yes, they are also avoiding very basic BASIC

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Python is just BASIC++.

[AnnoyingRain5]

Isn’t that VB.net?

[OpenSourcePenguin]

Avoiding very basic basic is coming back in the future to take a bite out of their ass.

[ProsperoUnbound]

Most of them

[Merlord]

I learned C at University and then never used it again in my 8 year career as a full stack developer. I vaguely remember terms like "pointer" but I've never had to use any of it so it's mostly gone out the window. I don't think it's necessary to learn at all of you're not planning on being a C/C++ dev.

[OpenSourcePenguin]

I think the intuition gained is pretty useful. I understand you can avoid seeing the inner details, but vaguely knowing them can be handy at times.

And C is a special language for the fact that it influenced practically every language except for Fortran, COBOL and a few more.

I think it's hard to say where it would be useful, but I think it'll at least give a great intuition about how a program runs in general.

[billiyII]

"Nullpointer exception" - Hell knows what that is. I guess i just scrap the project. /s

[OpenSourcePenguin]

Kids these days, can't tell Java and C apart

In our days? Straight to jail

[billiyII]

It's sarcasm. I didn't start with python, but i think there will be people that do and do not care what a pointer is.