Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C’s biggest ...

In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...

"declaration mimics use" is what gave rise to the grammar associating the * with the variable name rather than the type name. Everything else follows on as a consequence of that. I can't tell you how ...

Currently in Java, but I've had the pleasure (if you can call it that) of sitting in some of the C++ labs doing my stuff. It's been a while for me and few in my various classes have such old timers ...