2012-03-14



Teaching C.

It appears that being  exact/mechanic  is  difficult  to  people.
That  surprises,  because  if you don't understand the topic yet,
you would be better off to follow strict rules than try to  think
freely.  Yet, the inverse behavior is common. Probably this comes
from a human dislike for working bottom-up.  I had observed  this
behavior  in the most clear way for regular expressions.  For the
C programming language it had been not as obvious but similar.

If you are familiar with C and Unix, then you see pointers every-
where.   It's  always  the  same concepts, which makes it easy to
understand.  If all this is new to you, then it appears  new  and
strange  each time again, whereas the Unix guy discovers the same
concepts over and over again.

Also, I had to learn that the difference between system call  and
standard library function is difficult to understand for newbies.
It had been difficult for me, too, only few years  ago  ...  I've
already forgotten.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>