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Even worse, if you don't listen to the presented advice, you may become discouraged with programming altogether.
But atleast then it would be from my failure to comprehend my book, and not from the misdirection of others on this forum. In all honesty, I plan on getting other books, and if I find myself frustrated with this one, I'll likely drop it in favor of another and yet another. If, however, I use the knowledge presented to me here on this forum, at a time I'm not prepared for, it would likely cause me trouble later on down the road. This of course assumes that the book in would prepare me before telling me about said functions, which it very well may not. I prefer to learn from the ground up. Your functions may be better, but I feel it would be valuable to understand why they're better suited for certain tasks, and before I can understand that, I would have to first understand why scanf is considered flawed. If I have a half-decent book, I think it plausable that the book would point these things out to me later on down the road, where I'd have a better chance of comprehending exactly what it is you're trying to get across by reccomending alternate functions to me.