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Recent Post - 2019-02-17

Venturing back into C

For the past two weeks or so I have been diving back into C programming. I've found it to be a very fun and refreshing experience coming off of a slog of Java 11 updates at work. I've found comfort in its simplicity and frustrations in my "I can do this without an IDE" mindset.

I started C programming in College during a 8 AM course of which all I can remember is that it was at 8 AM. I loved programming in C, dealing with memory, pointers, no strings, structs, no strings, linking, no strings. It was a really interesting difference from the web and Java programming I had done previously. Obviously the lack of the "string" type made things interesting and initially a challenge for me back then. In my most recent endevour I found char * to be perfectly suitable for every case I came across. It was usually a separate library that was failing me, not a fixed char array. This was mostly due to the types of programs I was writting in college were text adventures where all of what I did was using strings. And my lack of understanding of what was actually happening in C was really what was causing all the issues.