What is the difference between the * and the & operators in c programming?

Question

I am just making sure I understand this concept correctly. With the * operator, I make a new variable, which is allocated a place in memory. So as to not unnecessarily dupli

Answer 1

Not quite. You're confusing a * appearing in a type-name (used to define a variable), with the * operator.

int main() {
    int i;    // i is an int
    int *p;   // this is a * in a type-name. It means p is a pointer-to-int
    p = &i;   // use & operator to get a pointer to i, assign that to p.
    *p = 3;   // use * operator to "dereference" p, meaning 3 is assigned to i.
}