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Do the young minds need to learn the pointer concepts?
Why did the C master Dennis Ritchie introduce pointers in C? And why did the other programming languages like VB.NET or Java or C# eliminate them? I have found some points in Google, and I want to ...
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Why do languages require parenthesis around expressions when used with "if" and "while"?
Languages like C, Java, and C++ all require parenthesis around an entire expression when used in an if, while, or switch.
if (true) {
// Do something
}
as opposed to
if true {
// Do ...
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How can I feel more confident about my programming skills? [closed]
Programming isn't alien to me. I first starting doing markup (HTML, now please don't laugh at me) when I was 12 and a little bit of BASIC when I was 13 (I knew much about Flowcharts, Pseudocodes at ...
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Why did Java and C sharply dip in popularity around 2017 in the TIOBE index? [closed]
The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows Java and C dramatically falling in popularity between late 2016 and mid 2017 before rebounding by mid 2018. What is the cause of the volatility?
Source: www....
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Why do most language's definition of substring allow substring("abc", 3) => ""
I've seen most languages have it be the case for their substring method that using the length of a given string in the method as the start index will give you an empty string. It is most definitely ...
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Programming languages differences and efficiency, does it matter?
I am fairly new to programming, I have studied in computer science for 3 years at college, but as you know, school is only 2% of what really makes one a fully-fledged programmer.
I have a lot of ...
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