[novia]

This is a little off topic, but does anyone have any good resources to help me wrap my head around pointers in C? Right now they are very confusing to me.

[Zelizz]

Imagine all memory is a big array. A pointer is just an index into that array. A pointer dereference is like accessing something at an array index. A pointer to a pointer is array index to a location where you'll find another array index.

[novia]

I understand pointers conceptually. It's the syntax (in C specifically) that is giving me trouble. I am fine with pointers in ASM.

[iainmerrick]

Hmm, it's been a long time since I read it, but this sounds like something that good old K&R probably does well. It's famously short and well-written.

It's old-fashioned but I assume (maybe others can correct me) the latest edition is up to date enough that it won't teach you any outright bad habits.

[novia]

Thank you very much! I'll give it a look.