Session 29 Videos

Step 1: Download (right-click and Save ...) and then print this Quiz on the videos herein (or use this Microsoft Word version of the quiz if you prefer).

Step 2: Download (right-click and Save ...) and watch the following videos, one by one. As you watch them, complete the quiz that you downloaded and printed (above).

Videos: The basic concept and notation of pointers

• Binky (an introduction to Pointers from Stanford University) (35.3 MB, 3:11 minutes)
• Download and READ this material on Pointers (including Box and Pointer diagrams) (this is a collection of PDFs, not a video).

  Work through the document at that link:

  • First read its Discussion.
  • Then read its Summary and Example.
  • Finally, do its two Practice Problems and check your answers to them versus the Solutions provided.

  For the Practice Problems, print out the problems and write your solutions on them, then bring your completed solutions to class.

  • Be sure to check your answers against the provided solutions and bring your questions to class.
• Pointers (basic concept and notation) (6.26 MB, 4:33 minutes)
• Pointers in the Debugger (9.96 MB, 4:59 minutes)
• Pointer Pitfalls (17.07 MB, 12:01 minutes)