Understanding Pointers | A Filipino’s Guide to Programming

Learn more about me: https://carlospanganiban.com/ Join our community: https://discord.gg/3YD7ewjzf4 Code shown in the video: https://github.com/lickorice/ph-guide-to-prog/tree/master/pointers_basics We tackle the backbone of data structures—pointers! Learn how referencing and dereferencing fully work, and how to modify a variable from within a different function scope using these techniques! Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 00:36 - The function call stack 02:34 - Memory addresses 04:09 - Getting the address of a variable 05:25 - Why the need for an address data type 07:00 - Visiting an address 07:45 - The pointer data type 08:40 - The two asterisks 10:45 - Solving the problem 14:33 - End Stock photos used are in the public domain: https://www.pexels.com/ https://pixabay.com/ #carlospanganiban #afilipinosguidetoprogramming