Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today we'll look at basic pointers. We'll go through the concept of a pointer and the syntax but we're really only scratching the surface here. We'll look at pointer arithmetic and passing by reference and that sort of stuff in a later tutorial. My main goal is to show that pointers are more than a way for experienced programmers to show off to newbies, they are an integral and very powerful part of C++. They are not vague, magical or difficult to understand, they're just variables which hold the address of another variable.
Today we'll look at basic pointers. We'll go through the concept of a pointer and the syntax but we're really only scratching the surface here. We'll look at pointer arithmetic and passing by reference and that sort of stuff in a later tutorial. My main goal is to show that pointers are more than a way for experienced programmers to show off to newbies, they are an integral and very powerful part of C++. They are not vague, magical or difficult to understand, they're just variables which hold the address of another variable.
