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If you can grasp pointers, recursion, asynchronous programming/callbacks in less than a week (as a concepts, not apply-able skills) you have it.
by venomsnake 11y ago
If you can grasp pointers, recursion, asynchronous programming/callbacks in less than a week (as a concepts, not apply-able skills) you have it.
- dmichulke 11y agoPro tip: In order to understand recursion, you have to either just know it or know someone who understands it.
- venomsnake 11y agoNot at all. This is just basic mathematical induction in reverse. I think we learned it in 7th or 8th grade.
- unimpressive 11y agoI think he was making a meta-joke about recursion.
- fleitz 11y agoNot really, if you understand loops you understand recursion. Loops are pretty easy to understand...
- veddox 11y agoUnderstanding recursion: If you understand it, you're fine. Otherwise, go back to the beginning.
- abc_lisper 11y agoRecursion is Mathematical Induction, written as a program.
- i336_ 11y agoIt took me several years to grasp pointers after having fed on BASIC since I was 7 :/ I'm fine with C now though.
- lexandstuff 11y agoIf you can grasp all those things in less than a week, than congratulations: you're a once-in-a-lifetime genius. If it takes you years to grasp all those things like the majority of us, then that's fine too.
- venomsnake 11y agoI have also been in class with 20-other once in a lifetime geniuses, and probably a total of 120 in my high school. And there was a whole chain of schools that specialized in math in the country. One per county. From what I hear in MIT they give you the complete scheme language at the first lecture. He asked about aptitude.