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Sai gowtham
Sai gowtham

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What is the most confusing thing in ProgrammingšŸ

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Ben Halpern •

Explaining it from the ground up. I just talked to a security guard at Railsconf who was curious about what "Rails" was. Trying to explain programming from the absolute basics is really tough.

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Dian Fay •

Two things:

  1. Cache invalidation
  2. Naming things
  3. Off-by-one errors
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Pierre Bouillon • • Edited

Talking about learning the basics, I remember that a lot of students in my school where struggling with array starting at 0; ending at n-1 and same for the for loop