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Originally Posted by wireties
Pointers are not just an arbitrary concept put in languages to cause us headaches.
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Great comment! New C programmers always list pointers high on their WTF list.
If you continue in CS you will take courses in Data Structures and Algorithms, where the beauty and utility of pointers starts to become apparent.
Things like graphs, trees, and other structures, whose size and connections are not known at compile time, are easy to create, traverse, add too, delete from, sort, etc., when using pointers.
Hang in there, learning to use them will be a great benefit to you when you reach that stage.