I'm right with you -- My first introduction to a programming language was dedicated to pointers, stacks and heaps, and memory allocation. It was hard to grasp why any of this mattered when there was nothing tangible to chew on.
I wish in hindsight I had started writing more high-level code, built something, and then was introduced to these concepts as they became relevant.
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I think that's why so many people struggle to learn programming. I actually found myself going back to the concepts I was "taught" years after college because all the code I had wrote gave me enough context to understand those concepts.
We need to redefine what would be considered "basic knowledge". The "basics" should really be a certain amount of experience actually doing something. Understanding what happens behind the scenes are the advanced topics.
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I'm right with you -- My first introduction to a programming language was dedicated to pointers, stacks and heaps, and memory allocation. It was hard to grasp why any of this mattered when there was nothing tangible to chew on.
I wish in hindsight I had started writing more high-level code, built something, and then was introduced to these concepts as they became relevant.
What the.. that’s too high a bar to cross..
I think that's why so many people struggle to learn programming. I actually found myself going back to the concepts I was "taught" years after college because all the code I had wrote gave me enough context to understand those concepts.
We need to redefine what would be considered "basic knowledge". The "basics" should really be a certain amount of experience actually doing something. Understanding what happens behind the scenes are the advanced topics.