When I first learned to program at John's Hopkins CTY class back in middle school (~2002), we learned on C++. We didn't wait long to get to pointers because we

When I first learned to program at John's Hopkins CTY class back in middle school (~2002), we learned on C++. We didn't wait long to get to pointers because we learned not just how to get the computer to do what we wanted but also about what was going on underneath. When you are in a mindset of thinking about how things are being placed into memory, pointers become a much more natural concept.