DAY 15
WEEK 3
Pointers: Beyond the
Basics
On Day 9, “Understanding Pointers,” you were introduced to the basics of
pointers, which are an important part of the C programming language. Today
you’ll go further, exploring some advanced pointer topics that can add flexibil-
ity to your programming. Today you will learn- How to declare a pointer to a pointer
- How to use pointers with multidimensional arrays
- How to declare arrays of pointers
- How to declare pointers to functions
- How to use pointers to create linked lists for data storage
Declaring Pointers to Pointers ............................................................................
As you learned on Day 9, a pointeris a numeric variable with a value that is
the address of another variable. You declare a pointer using the indirection
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