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I wasn't disagreeing with the importance of pointers at all. And I agree strongly that a firm grasp of C and assembly is extremely valuable. My disbelief was wi

I wasn't disagreeing with the importance of pointers at all. And I agree strongly that a firm grasp of C and assembly is extremely valuable. My disbelief was with the notion that self-taught programmers wouldn't understand pointers. I was saying that the only way you could get away without knowing pointers would be if you'd avoided programming in asm/C/C++/etc.

Mikushi 16y ago
Which lets face it, is pretty common nowadays with all the scripting languages. In all honesty, for a while i felt like i was lacking knowledge compared to my fellow coworkers, but after a while in the job, there is one truth that i only believe: you are either a natural programmer or not, and that's where the difference will be. I never took real CS courses, i have a degree in Software Engineering, but was basically just how to write software for administration in .NET, design databases and write proper SQL. Never learned C, ASM, algorithm, data structures or stuff like that at school. But i still get a better understanding of those things that most CS graduate i know... School will not make you a good programmer, if you are good it will help, but you could have probably achieved the same level of knowledge and skill without it.