Starting on C programming



Nov 7th, 2017

      Couple of days after my big day at the Google dev festival, I come back strong with a slight experience of talking to other professional developers and getting to know the field more. When the day started for us, we just finished our intro to the CS course of lambda school. I was very familiar with he architecture so nothing was really new to me except for the protocols being explained a little more thorough. We finished the lectures of the intro to CS and the architecture, now it was time to move onto C programming, and boy oh boy were we in for a wild ride.

  The moment we jumped into C programming, we all looked pretty puzzled throughout and it wasnt getting any easier for us. This is probably the hardest thing  I've done here yet and C programming is not a forgiving language to grasp. The objective wasn't just to learn C but the abilities to grasp another language quickly like we were javascript. This is a very difficult task for C programming because the concepts of it are just to dense to grasp. I wasn't enjoying it at all, but the more reps I pull into this, the better I will become. The content for C programming is just really tedious and redundant at this point in time because of the fact that there are so many other languages that can make the process less painful and troublesome, but it cannot be avoided because of that fact that most employers would want a very sufficient person that is decent in C/C++. Understanding C/C++ can justify on how much you understand programming in general and computer science as a whole. Pretty much anything that runs on your computer gets transcribed into C because thats pretty much how the application would communicate with the computer itself. So this language cannot be avoided.

 The best thing I can do for now is do the best that I can and try to understand the concepts as much as possible. Until then, gotta do my best in understanding these pointers.


-Eric Blancas

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