Why are so many peopel appearing to suddenly learn C as a first language?
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Why are so many peopel ...
Yeah, I agree. More peopel should learn ENGLISH as a first language... ;P
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And I'm missing that. Totally inept in electronics thanks to id-10t professor both in high school and University. Whatever I learnt has been on the job.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I was lucky enough in my younger years to work with some electrical engineers that had the patience to help me. But I took a job here in FL 35 years ago that didn't require any electronic knowledge so I lost a lot over the years. But I picked it back up about 5 years or so ago and have tried to catch up...but I enjoy it so I take it at my own pace.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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I was lucky enough in my younger years to work with some electrical engineers that had the patience to help me. But I took a job here in FL 35 years ago that didn't require any electronic knowledge so I lost a lot over the years. But I picked it back up about 5 years or so ago and have tried to catch up...but I enjoy it so I take it at my own pace.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
If you don't do something for a long time you seem to lose the necessary skills. For instance, after living and working in Germany for 6 years I became fluent in German. Then I moved to the US, hardly spoke a word of it for 25+ years and now can hardly remember any of it. If I hear it in a movie I get this vague feeling of recognition, but the detail has gone. However, I got on a bicycle after 30 years of no bike riding and could immediately ride it with no problems. Go figure!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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True, but still C is a prerequisite to develop firmware, the rest is "easily" adjusted - i.e. I was baffled when I saw most functions using static local variable, until I discovered that stack space is carefully calculated and allocated to the byte (well, roughly) during configuration phase. Avoiding malloc and free is also quite easy, heck it's easier to not use them, especially considering how C programming is taught even in Computer Engineering courses. And the hard core real time skill is needed only in a few critical parts of the system, all the rest is rote C code that also needs to be fast. I have no training on any real time systems and yet developed 2 firmwares very successfully, the BSP layer was already provided by the manifacturer. I just had to mind performance a bit more than usual. And scheduling is a breeze, it's really a single thread system with timed cyclic functions.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
WElcome to my world :-)
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Would you rather learn to drive on a Tesla Model X or on a Subaru Impreza ?
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Would you rather learn to drive on a Tesla Model X or on a Subaru Impreza ?
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Maybe they are people who want to figure out how computers really work without wondering what that guy behind the curtains is doing.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Toyota Corolla.
Yep. Cheap, slow, and easy to manoeuvre. :thumbsup:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Maybe they are people who want to figure out how computers really work without wondering what that guy behind the curtains is doing.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Read their questions and you'll see just how wrong you are ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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WElcome to my world :-)
After 2 years it's no longer welcome, it's "you can't escape now, you fool!" :D
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I was lucky enough in my younger years to work with some electrical engineers that had the patience to help me. But I took a job here in FL 35 years ago that didn't require any electronic knowledge so I lost a lot over the years. But I picked it back up about 5 years or so ago and have tried to catch up...but I enjoy it so I take it at my own pace.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
I will probably learn a lot more now that my dad got into rail modelling and is biting more than he can chew - he's a great electrician but knows nothing of digital programming. I got volountold to help him :D
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Would you rather learn to drive on a Tesla Model X or on a Subaru Impreza ?
I checked the price forn an Impreza not long ago. Way out of my pockets, sadly.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
It's the one true faith, the source, the key to enlightenment. JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, Typescript...guess where they all come from. :cool:
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Would you rather learn to drive on a Tesla Model X or on a Subaru Impreza ?
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Read their questions and you'll see just how wrong you are ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Read their questions and you'll see just how wrong you are ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
hypothesis: peopel who post C-related QA questions here are the most confused, and/or least intelligent, peopel in the cohort of peopel (learning their first programming language) starting to learn C. :omg:
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I will probably learn a lot more now that my dad got into rail modelling and is biting more than he can chew - he's a great electrician but knows nothing of digital programming. I got volountold to help him :D
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I feel like it's a consequence of not telling people where to start, often enough. They dig around the web / get an older professor at school and end up with outdated answers that don't make any sense. My professional recommendations is C#, by following the official Microsoft documentation[^] Short pages with hands-on examples. Branches out to every topic you might need. Used to suck 💯 but now it's above average consistently.
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
It could be because C and C++ make you realize the fundamentals of programming and how other languages work 'under their hoods'. And/or because most other languages actually have all of the fundamentals, but 'toned down'. For example, C# and Delegates (C's pointer to functions), Ref (pointers), and so on.
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