Pointers

Pointers

Topics Covered

• What pointers are and why C has them
• Address-of (&) and dereference (*) operators
• Pointer types and type safety
• NULL pointers and null pointer checks
• Pointers to pointers
• Function pointers and callbacks
• void pointers and generic programming

Content coming soon. This module will introduce pointers — the most powerful and most dangerous feature of C. It covers the basics of pointer declaration, dereferencing, and the mental model for understanding memory addresses.