K&R is easily one of the best CS/programming books. Short, concise and to the point. Another way to learn pointers is via assembly. Either learn assembly or ju

K&R is easily one of the best CS/programming books. Short, concise and to the point. Another way to learn pointers is via assembly. Either learn assembly or just look at the disassembled code. Look under the hood and it'll become clearer. Of course the best way is to write your own C compiler... but that may be overkill for most.