A Beginner's Guide to Pointers in C: Understanding and Application
NoIntroducing the C programming language The C language was developed in 1972 at At&T Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie. It combines features of the B and BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) programming languages but is also mixed with the Pascal la...
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Dukeson Ehigboria O.
Tech enthusiast and a software engineering student @ ALX SE Africa.
Nice article and educative. There is a little concept I find hard to accept and may be corrected. The paragraph before the Pointers Declaration, where you said "A variable is a datatype in C; ...", I am thinking you can explain that phrase or correct it.
A variable is an allocated space in the computer's memory used to hold data of a specific data type. When declaring a variable, you need to specify the data type and the name of the variable this will help the compiler allocate/reserve the specific amount of space for that variable with the variable name.
What do you think?