Pointers in C for Absolute Beginners – Full Course

Pointers in C for Absolute Beginners – Full Course

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Pointers in C for Absolute Beginners – Full Course

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  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 What is a computer eli5 CPU, RAM, bytes
  3. 3 Data Types
  4. 4 Intro to processes
  5. 5 process memory layout
  6. 6 Variables in memory
  7. 7 Naive change_value program
  8. 8 Change_value with pointers
  9. 9 The classic swap
  10. 10 Why declaration and dereference have the same syntax for pointers?
  11. 11 Advantages of passing by reference va passing by value
  12. 12 Why do pointers to different data types have the same size?
  13. 13 Given that pointers have all the same size, why do we need a pointer type?
  14. 14 void pointers are confusing
  15. 15 why malloc is handy and more on void*
  16. 16 Are arrays just pointers?
  17. 17 Array Decay into a pointer
  18. 18 why array decay is useful?
  19. 19 arr[5] == 5[arr]
  20. 20 pointers to pointers: **argv
  21. 21 *argv[] or **argv?
  22. 22 pointer to functions
  23. 23 use case with pointers to functions

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