Programming/Coding can't be taught

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i used to code (thats what u call writing programs now eh?) a lot in school in C. probably the trickiest thing then was recursive functions. it was very straightforward stuff.

Yes, recursive functions are so powerful. The simplest example is the factorial function. The code is so inelegant without recursion. Then when I saw the code for recursion to implement factorial(), I was floored. So amazingly simple!

 

Stopped when i started working and now i just can't get my head around object oriented programming. Doesn't stop me from developing apps though. I just come up with a flowchart and get some kid in vietnam to do it for a few hundred $.

Which is why I never got into C++, seemed unnecessarily verbose. Anyway, it was just a hobby for me lah, like electronics and so many things. I'm a dilettante.

Edited December 19, 2015 by Turboflat4