[lordnacho]

> They are having a good ol’ time learning C or Pascal in college, until one day the professor introduces pointers, and suddenly, they don’t get it.

That's the first day, surely? That's how I remember it. You're not going to wait with explaining pointers, right?

And I don't think anyone didn't get it, despite being Engineering students rather than CS students.

It just seems like a huge exaggeration to me.