The main problem people do not understand why do they need pointers.
Because they are not clear about stack and heap.
It is good to start from 16bit assembler for x86 with tiny memory mode. It helped many people to get idea of stack, heap and "address". And byte:) Modern programmers sometimes can't tell you how many bytes you need to address 32 bit space. How can they get idea of pointers?
Second moment is notation: you declare pointer as *, you get address as & and this is not easy to understand for some people.
And the last thing I saw was storage problem: they understand heap and stack but can't get into idea of "static".
