I never really understood pointers fully until I learned a bit of assembly as part of a computer architecture course. Once you realize that the computer stores

I never really understood pointers fully until I learned a bit of assembly as part of a computer architecture course. Once you realize that the computer stores everything as numbers, its like: ooooh. Addresses are just numbers written in Hex to scare away people who don't do number-base switching. In face, computers just play around with numbers mostly in different bases to ease playing around with them.