@VitruvianSasquatch
Everyone complaining that their language is better and doesn't need pointers, try coding on small microcontrollers. They are useful.
@MrSlowestD16
Oh man, I remember when I started programming in C and had trouble wrapping my head around this. Now years later it seems so trivial. You take it for granted. Great explanation.
@w.m.4077
"We're gonna use lego to explain linked lists" Oh my lord I think I'm in love with this man...
@pilzfreak9662
I would give a lot to just have an hour of time to talk about computer science with professor Brailsford. Such a genious person and how freaking well he explains the stuff.
@CODcanbefornoobs
It took me a year to figure out how pointers work, I'm glad I didn't give up
@aplcc323
I hope professor Brailsford is here for a lot more years so he can keep teaching us the history of computer science. It is truly an honor to be taught by such a well informed, clear person (:
@unlokia
The best Computerphile teacher bar none - happy, relaxed, enigmatic, affable, funny, and knowledgeable, incredibly articulate, not only in breadth but in extremes of depth. Sorry guys but NONE of you even get anywhere near close, (apart from Brian Kernighan.)
@CharlesVanNoland
I'm a C coder for life: I can't imagine coding without pointers, I use them for a variety of things beyond simple linked lists, but IIRC it was the linked list that I first learned how to wield them back in the 90s.
@jrajesh11
From childhood experiences most of us can relate a train as a linked list. Each train car is connected to a similar one. The data items are passengers
@kandysman86
You have helped me on my late in life(35) journey into coding more than any other teacher on the internet. You make these concepts accessible. Thank you.
@xOWSLA
What a lovely guy, and a beautiful way of explaining pointers. He locked me to the screen for 20 min.
@nateshrager512
Intellectual older folks develop such great voices and habits of speech. So nice to listen to
@jessesullivan4811
Though all this information has been hammered into me since my freshman year at uni, I just love hearing him talk about this.
@MECHANISMUS
Explaining a simpler subject by means of a more complex subjects is a THING to behold.
@RichardEricCollins
Great explanation, using lego is a great leaning tool. Pointers are one of C's most powerful tools.
@JulianOnions
char ***avp = &argv; Enough to scare most programmers!
@morsecode9223
Clearly understood after 3 years of struggling,all thanks to you sir. Thank you.
@user-eg6xu7cr8e
This is the most complicated explanation I've ever seen and it blows my head. I can explain pointer in two sentences: Pointer is an unsigned integer containing a memory address (or nothing - then it's null-pointer, which in most programming language means that value of pointer = 0, but sometimes it's special constant for null-pointers) . Making pointer to particular type is basically an information for programming language how to interpret arithmetic operations with that pointer : addition and subtraction - so that adding 1 to the pointer doesn't increase stored memory address value by 1 , but by the size of type .
@paulmann1289
It's been a long time since I mucked around in C, and pointers where always my headache, but this is the best explanation I've seen. I might actually break out the compiler again.
@DuaneYaiser