My frustration with pointers has hit its boiling point. This is way too much for this C novice to digest. When it started getting into the discussion involving arrays and functions, I totally lost consciousness. But I tried and tried. I do at least have a basic idea of what pointers are and understand the concepts of memory addressing, at least at a very high level. Hey, I understand that Java doesn't even use these things so I can't really get too down on myself. Moreover, page 293 said and I quote... "Resort to using the types defined in this chapter only if you really need to--and hopefully you won't". Kochan wants developers to go all the way with object constructs from the foundation class rather than going deep into classic C. With that said, I did not skim this chapter as he proposed; rather I went through it almost like I would others. I will still try to do the exercises but I will not bust my butt like the other chapters.
I am hopeful that one day I will either get a real grasp of the complex pointers or never have to use them. But avoidance will lead to this biting me on the butt one day.
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