Comment Quite true. (Score 1) 524
The first programming class I took was C and it was a wretched experience. I had no idea what I was doing, what the teacher was talking about when he said "addresses", and why I should care. I had a VERY basic electronics background - capacitors, resistors, boolean algebra - but it didn't help. It wasn't until I had gotten further into electronics-type classes and learned about state machines and had taken 2 semesters programming in Intel assembly that I was truly ready to appreciate the wonders of C and C++! And then, I still wasn't ready until one of my teachers beat it into my brain that doing design and drawing flowcharts before coding a line can save you a ton of frustration. That's when I was ready to write good code. Any mistakes I make now are all my own fault, and I am usually able to find them.
