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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Subject: Re: Most difficult part of learning C?
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:25:30 GMT
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- Ketan.Deshpande@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ketan Deshpande) writes:
-
- >In article <9208251159.AA04122@ult4> goldstei@cgi.com ("Morris Goldstein") writes:
- >>I am conducting research for a little project concerning difficulties in
- >>learning C and how to improve the teaching of C so as to circumvent these
- >>problems.
- >>
- >>When learning C, what things did you find the most confussing/difficult to
- >>understand?
-
- >The most difficult thing for me was to understand that given a declaration
- >like
- > int a[10];
-
- >both the following are correct:
- > a[6] = ....;
- > 6[a] = ....;
-
- I understand that this is a difficult thing to understand, at first...
- But is it really an integral part of C to understand this? I can't
- think of any situation in which I would need to know this...
-
- -=Alan
-