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I don't know of a better way to teach people how pointers work, and all the other low-level details that higher-level languages gloss over. Day to day, I agree,

I don't know of a better way to teach people how pointers work, and all the other low-level details that higher-level languages gloss over. Day to day, I agree, you're probably not going to want to be fiddling raw pointers unless you have to, but for pedadogic purposes, it's worth knowing. Particularly with so many languages building on C and C-isms.

saghm 9y ago
> "I don't know of a better way to teach people how pointers work, and all the other low-level details that higher-level languages gloss over" I definitely agree, but I'm not sure that a data structures/algorithms course is the best place to be teaching that. I don't know anything about Yale's CS curriculum, but I'd hope there's at least one systems programming course in there.