As a self taught C programmer starting comp sci in University, WTF is all this object oriented-ness. Constructors, parents, children, inheritance, polymorphism... I feel like more like an anthropologist than a programmer.

(But really, I get why it's better. Just so hard to learn)

I know how you feel. I self taught programming as well. It's taking me a while to link the theories to practical.

@Xerev Best practices too right? Like holy cow the amount of commenting expected....

I kinda envy that C is your proficient language. IMHO it's easier to transit from lower to higher level language. My recent assignment is to write a shell program in C but the amount of ********* is giving me headache. But I still enjoy a lot talking to my computer in C! It's so much fun compare to OOP language!

And then after learning OOP at university you stumble upon a long forum thread about how Java and other mainstream OOP languages are quite far from the original OOP and a lot of folks says that Java should not be even categorized as an OOP language. 😱 (I had a hard believing that since I had only experience with Java and C#.)

OOP is really important part and I had best grades from it (better than WinApi or Algorithms and Data Structures) I am on fourth semester of CS at University right now so Java and even more OOP coming soon 😂😂

What on earth did you self teach yourself before university? Those things you listed are the basics/foundations of modern programming. Also why did you chose C? Just curious.

@JavaRules All I had was the book "The C programming language" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. So I read it cover to cover, that was my intro to programming.

@allofyou, (I know this won't work) hahaha, anyway I long to learn C, my first language was C++ and I really love the OOP paradigm it helps my code to stay cleaner, easier to understand and to implement.

It's really not that hard once you understand what all of it means but it's still a pain in the ass to implement OOP correctly.

@obenn have you looked at any serious data structures yet? That's what made me realise how powerful OOP is.

@JavaRules not yet, but I'm sure I will! I just want to clarify that I understand how amazing OOP is, it's just been the hardest thing to learn!

@monnef Any links or references? That sounds kind blowing!

@obenn Unfortunately the topic I am talking about is not in English. Take a look at Smalltalk and Alan Kay 😉. It's kinda sad that "current OOP languages" are so limited and at a same time are encouraging non-OOP approach (like getters and setters, logic outside of objects and so on) that I feel even father of OOP would never call them an OOP language, maybe hybrid OOP+structured language at best.

@Lisanna Sure one can, but the language itself is not an OOP one and writing using a paradigm that language isn't intended, designed and build for is IMO very bad choice of tools.