[ChrisSD]

I'm semi-convinced the reason many people have a problem understanding pointers is because C makes them needlessly confusing. Or at least in my experience people struggle more with C pointers than they do with learning assembly.

[jghn]

FWIW I struggled with pointers in Pascal before struggling with pointers in C.

I do think one area that causes issues with C is any sort of string manipulation requires a reasonable understanding of pointers, and most introductory programming classes tend to focus on things like string manipulation.