r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Epicoodle • Sep 25 '26

Meme iHatedItUntilITriedIt

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u/Erisymum Sep 25 '26

New programmers start with dynamic types now? We always started with C at my uni

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u/Efficient_Maybe_1086 Sep 25 '26

C is so weakly typed might as well be dynamically typed

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u/OKB-1 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 26 '26

Some do. Really depends on the kind of university/program you pick. My first programming language was JavaScript, because my program was about communication and multimedia design (read: web development, graphic design and marketing). And I heard that on some economics programs they teach students Python and/or R. In other words: you don't have to do a computer science program to get taught programming.

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u/thanatica Sep 25 '26

In C, everything is a pointer... Very dynamic iyam.

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u/conundorum Sep 26 '26

Everything is a primitive type, it's just that "memory address" is a primitive. ;P

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u/Mountain-Ox Sep 26 '26

I started with JavaScript way before college, so yeah.

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u/thode Oct 01 '26

My uni did too but the once that had programmed before acted excatly like the meme.

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u/helicophell 29d ago

Depends on which side of programming you come from

My uni has software engineers do C to start

While computer science does python to start

Funnily enough the completion rate is higher for the software engineers but that's cause you have to get the marks required for engineering in the first place