After programming in C for a while, I really began to have the feeling that arrays were physical things that took up space in RAM. When I think like this, start

After programming in C for a while, I really began to have the feeling that arrays were physical things that took up space in RAM. When I think like this, starting an index at 0 is very intuitive, as 0 implies the origin point of the physical construct. If you think of arrays just as a kind of abstract list, then beginning at 1 makes much more sense. No one who looks at a to-do list at home talks about the 0th thing on their list to do. But the spacial nature of arrays makes starting at 1 confusing. After I take 1 step, I am no longer at my starting point. And cycling through arrays in code for me has a very similar feeling to taking actual physical steps through a data structure.