Albin Jose to Programming@programming.dev • 2 years agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-square148fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down113
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhich programming language is hard to understand?Albin Jose to Programming@programming.dev • 2 years agomessage-square148fedilink
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoReading anything to do with pointers in C is confusing to me. Sorry to disappoint you.
minus-square@miversen33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•2 years agoA pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location. They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years ago The pointer syntax being slightly different than the pointer declaration syntax always confuses me to no end. I conceptually under pointers perfectly but their syntax is wack.
Reading anything to do with pointers in C is confusing to me. Sorry to disappoint you.
A pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location.
They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)