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Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse by DeathArrow on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:00AM (#22846886)
What is boring and annoying in C? The only thing simpler than C is Basic.
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Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse by mekster on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:51AM (#22848235)
What do you ask teens to accomplish with C? And all the memory management and pointers? The worst way to enter programming. It needs to be taught with what is meant to be fun by doing it.
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Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse by fishmaster on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:30AM (#22847219)
Manual memory management, no real type system to speak of, extremely easy to shoot off your foot for no good reason,...
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