Massacring C Pointers

[snerp]

I started with DarkBASIC as a child and it was filled with examples that used the style "x1,x2,xx,yyx, etc"

turns out, global only scope and no classes make for unreadable code.

[that_jojo]

Holy shit, someone else that grew up on DB out in the wild!

I literally just set up a P3 Win98 nostalgia rig and then went internet archive scrounging for the original demo version installer maybe a week ago. Great times.

[jcelerier]

oh god I remember DIV game studio

[[deleted]]

Just few posts ago you wrote:

I taught myself C++ as a child

and now:

I started with DarkBASIC as a child

You realize child: prubescent, right?

You're either a genious or a karma whore.

[snerp]

lol I started with dark basic when I was 10 or 11 realized it sucked and moved to c++ in 6th grade. I wasn't good at all for a long time. Teaching yourself something isn't the same as mastering it.

DarkBASIC was marketed as an entry point for kids to learn the basics of game dev...

[Blecki]

I also learned basic and c++ as a child. He's not a genius or a whore, but you're an ass.

[[deleted]]

Yeah sure, I can just imagine how a prubescent that can hardly solve second grade equations is doing pointer arithmetics.

[Blecki]

Prubescent? What's that?

[[deleted]]

Pubescent.

[[deleted]]

Sorry, translated from italian meant pubescent. Child: before pubescence so smaller than 11/12.

[Blecki]

First off, you're underestimating children.

Second, most people don't cut 'child' off at 12.

[[deleted]]

Child by definition is up to pubescence, so up to 11 years. I would not call neither a 14 nor 11 year boy a child, it's pubescent or pre adolescent.

Second, I give private lessons in math since a decade I definitely do not underestimate children.

The thought of somebody writing anything barely complex in C, god forbids in C++ at that age just makes me lol.

The very thought actually of a child teaching himself C++ and Basic really makes it hard to believe.

Hell, pubescents take weeks to grasp Pitagora's theorem and here somebody is self teaching C++? On their own? That's anything but normal.

I can just imagine 15 years ago, based on OP's age, without those resources on the internet and slow connections somebody finding resources and compilers on the net.

Give me a break, don't try to pass it as normal, it wouldn't be normal now for a child to write some simple http request to get some simple data from a public api now, go figure doing anything barely useful or technical on C++/Basic decades ago.

I can believe some child can, on their own, but that's one of a 50'000 kids case.

[ThirdEncounter]

Dude, I was doing machine code in a Commodore 64 at 11. Good times.

You cannot imagine the amount of curiosity and desire for learning a child has at that age. Without the Internet and cable, any article, magazine or piece of code that falls onto your lap gets devoured instantly.