From: Derek Greene <topcoder AT mindspring DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching a child to program in C
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 02:31:30 -0400
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So buy the second volume.  Frankly though, pointers aren't the complex
monsters people make them out to be, the big problem is that they are
difficult to explain.  Get past that and you're ok.   A problem i've seen in
the IRC, C and C++ chat rooms, is that people say "Explain pointers to me!?"
and that isn't gonna get you anywhere.  It's easier to explain them when they
can ask more specific questions.

Derek Greene

John Meyer wrote:

> At 05:12 PM 9/9/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >> Buy a ' x For Dummies' book like Qbasic Programming for Dummies, C for
> >> Dummies, et cetera, they are written in a form a baby could understand
> >> (and that's probably not far beyond the truth :-).
>
> Sorry, I've seen too many C and C++ for Dummies books to seriously
> recommend those to anybody.  For instance, C for Dummies doesn't even get
> to pointers until volume two.