> The issue with pointers is that CS gets taught in a VERY bad way. The way it should be taught is starting with basic assembly on a microprocessor. This trains your brain to think of memory locations and data in memory.
Can't agree with this enough. The moment i finally understood what pointers are was when I landed embedded job and during debugging session I looked at memory browser that showed my variable at exact address in memory. After that all about pointer arithmetic and even function pointers became clear as day. Something at least 3 teachers weren't able to explain clear enough.
Can't agree with this enough. The moment i finally understood what pointers are was when I landed embedded job and during debugging session I looked at memory browser that showed my variable at exact address in memory. After that all about pointer arithmetic and even function pointers became clear as day. Something at least 3 teachers weren't able to explain clear enough.