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Re:Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in t... by jamestimmins on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:35PM (#19130196)

It seems like this comment is missing the point of this project, which is explicitly billed as an experiment to test the viability of an approach. It also sounds like you may have more extensive C experience than the target audience.

But more importantly, every MVP is going to lack certain features that some folks deem essential. But when we focus on missing features, or worse, miss the point of a project ("you built X but what I really want is Y"), we discourage them or others from trying/sharing future experiments.

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Re:Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in t... by burfog on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:51PM (#19130622)

I sort of am the target audience: I'm currently teaching C.

The lack of important standard features means I can't just say "this is C".

For teaching, normal data type sizes are important. Being able to have static data is important. Beginners need to see how these things work.

I do applaud the effort. I think it is a great idea.

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Re:Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in t... by kazinator on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:20PM (#19139856)

Beginners also need to know that a specific translation to machine or virtual machine instructions isn't the definition of the program's behavior.

If this was a good idea, Kernighan and Ritchie would have filled the pages of that book with PDP-11 instruction sequences accompanying bits of C code.

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