Pointers, Pointers, Pointers and More Pointers!!!

So far, this has been the longest lesson and I was beginning to lose faith.  The instructor, kept going on and on about pointers.  Explaining the same concept over and over again.  I understood the concept but I had no idea what pointers were used for or even the point of said pointers.  I'm still not sure I completely understand, but one thing the instructor did say stuck.  "The difference between accomplished programmers and mediocre programmers is the understanding of the fundamentals and uses of pointers.  So, I need to learn to use pointers like it's common sense.

Here were the lessons for Unit 9 this evening

9.1 - Using Pointers for directly manipulation data in memory

9.2 - About changing the memory address stored in a pointer 

9.3 - About pointer concerning multi-byte variables

9.4 - Pointers have memory addresses 

9.5 - Why do I need to learn pointers????

9.6 - Intro: the Char* Pointer

I honestly can't wait until I'm actually able to use this knowledge.  

I will say, I did find it interesting to learn the hierarchy of Data

1. Single element of a given data type (char, int, etc)

2. Text string (a type of simple array)

3. Single dimensional array 

4. Multi-dimensional array

5. Structures

6. And So On

Much, much more to look forward to