The best advice I received about understanding C pointer (usage) syntax was to translate to English via the following substitutions: * == "at location" & == "

The best advice I received about understanding C pointer (usage) syntax was to translate to English via the following substitutions: * == "at location" & == "the address of" There are cases where this doesn't work well (or at all), but it works for many of the cases that initially look like jibberish to a C noob. For declarations, just put variables on separate lines.