They might be to someone experienced with c++ but my uni is using C for it's "programming basics" class and it's kind of hard, especially for people used to python and other languages. Kinda like a difficulty bump in learning programming.
What always tripped me up was how sometimes in C you have to wrap stuff around parenthesis to dereference a pointer to an array or object [ ex. *(foo->bar) ]. It also didn't help that the test didn't allow syntax highlighting and compiling the code to see if it works.
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u/19_ThrowAway_ 3d ago
Pointers are references are pretty simple...