In C++ I Cannot Grasp Pointers and Classes

Question

I\'m fresh out of college and have been working in C++ for some time now. I understand all the basics of C++ and use them, but I\'m having a hard time grasping more advance

Answer 1

Pretend a pointer is an array address.

x = 500; // memory address for hello;
MEMORY[x] = "hello"; 
print  MEMORY[x]; 

its a graphic oversimplification, but for the most part as long as you never want to know what that number is or set it by hand you should be fine.

Back when I understood C I had a few macros I had which more or less permitted you to use pointers just like they were an array index in memory. But I've long since lost that code and long since forgotten.

I recall it started with

#define MEMORY 0; 
#define MEMORYADDRESS( a ) *a;

and that on its own is hardly useful. Hopefully somebody else can expand on that logic.