Pointers...

Last week activities included coding, reading, and re-reading.  One particular topic I found to be not so clear is pointers.  The idea is quite simple, and it was easy to understand it, but the sytax and implementation is something I still have to wrap my head around.  My strategy is re-reading and watching the lectures over and over again, as well as coding the examples and exercises.

The rest of the topics (including archives, enumeration, data structures) were quite clear to me from the very start, since most of the same ideas were introduced during Java CS106A course.  So, I had no problems understanding and writing code for corresponding exercises.  I hope to be done with the topic of pointers next week, and proceed with the usual study-flow.

One little thing on the side.  I started to read "Zero Day" by Mark Russinovich, a must-read for any security-minded person.  Mark is the person behind SysInternals anti-malware solution, so he knows what he's talking about.  But most of all, Mark appeared to be a pretty good writer -- the novel doesn't let me go! :)