Pointers

[iglooohead]

great video :)

[Kaischoosi]

This is sooo greeat!

[Jstall311]

Haha every CS concept should have the option of being presented via claymation, well done!

[videooven]

binky confirmed for hacker

[karthikceg161187]

great video!

[blackydementor]

Haha, this is a fantastic way to start with pointers.

[kevin29wong]

Haha my lecturer used this vid to review us on pointers, magic pointer dereferencing wand rocks.

[MadPenguinStudios]

it's so annoying it takes me two days to make a person out of play dough and it falls apparts its so f****** annoying!!!

[JesusWASdarkSkin]

That's was easy

[khatchad]

Pointers to stack variables?

[RebelHQ]

O___O

some tripy stuff here...

[LuthienAthariel]

Great! I wonder if anyone has explained the concept of tensors in a similar way?

[nosleoj]

Hey, this helped me allot in understanding pointers.

Thanks

[Darkblood707]

Brian Beuken made me watch this like1000 times :O

[conspiritor2]

Very good man, very good!!!

[nateaus]

I thought this video made pointers seem more complex.. then they are .. which defeats the purpose of the video??

[omairiqbal889]

really?

for me this video cleared my concept though i like pascal better than c

[omairiqbal889]

sigh! wish i had access to such cool and fun video when i was learning

[DandelionsAndCheese]

pointers are so much fun <3

[Djmorley1169]

nice vids they look cool

[GRAHAMAUS]

Pointers are a pretty trivial concept that this video makes seem complicated, in my opinion.

[Danny77uk]

To beginners they're not. Also pointer misuse is a major cause of bugs in software. Even pro's make mistakes with them.

[williamfgc]

that's why I use Java....no pointer-mess!

[NuclearFriend]

If you need this much help to understand these fundamental basics of pointers, please don't become a programmer. :p

[Danny77uk]

oh shutup

[L337Cthulhu]

I'm a CS at Ohio State and I find this to be fantastic, our professor found it yesterday and sent it to everyone in the class.

[CKtheFat]

Bruce Adcock eh?

[L337Cthulhu]

Different Bruce actually, though that bruce may have found it.

[marcoskirsch]

"That's all there is to it"

Wow, this guy must work on the Windows codebase. Memory leaks galore!

My rules are shorter:

1. For every new, there should be a corresponding delete.

[Danny77uk]

Easy to say genius but you try applying your rules to a huge legacy codebase where pointers are being passed around by copy and you have no idea what owns what. Even smartpointers cannot resolve that problem. Now handles and multiple threads to that picture.

[zz811]

What I need is one for references.

[Danny77uk]

References are similar except they must be initialized when they are created, and need not be de-referenced. However, they also much more dangerous because it's much harder to determine if a reference actually still references a valid object (you cannot test the pointer address for example) and the behavior of references which have become stale is undefined.

A common newbie mistake is too assume references are easier than pointers - they are not.

[Simmerl]

I finally understood it!

After all these years!

Thanks!

[Larsson9009]

BEST PROGRAMMING VIDEO EVER!!

[Zeritel]

my teacher actually used this video to teach us pointers in class!

[alcsai]

Ohhh... thats nice. Hope u hav understood the concept well and all the best for proceeding concepts... Bye...

[DG2399]

@Zeritel same here

[Anka]

cool vid! XD

[gall0ws]

Wonderful!