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There are posters in this very discussion claiming that pointers were remarkably difficult to learn. I'm firmly in the "WTF is the big deal?" crowd. Every time
by ashark 9y ago
There are posters in this very discussion claiming that pointers were remarkably difficult to learn.
I'm firmly in the "WTF is the big deal?" crowd. Every time I see posts like that I think, "maybe I've thought I understood pointers just fine, and even used them without issue, for years and years, but somehow I actually don't understand them?"
I had a harder time with OO when I first encountered it than pointers, because I kept running into terrible "Sally wants to buy some lemonade from Tommy"-type introductions in crappy, cheap '90s C++/Java programming books and bouncing off it.
- khedoros1 9y ago> I had a harder time with OO when I first encountered it than pointers Pointers weren't too hard to learn (although, the deeper they're nested, the harder they are to think about, for me). OO felt immediately intuitive, using the "shape class, rectangle class, square class" examples. Recursion is the concept that I understood the general idea of, but had to do immense amounts of work to be able to visualize. I think that everyone has their own areas that they learn easily, that others have a hard time with.