C-and-C++/C4/Understanding-Pointers/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Pointers in C and C++
00:06	In this tutorial we will learn,
00:08	Pointers.
00:10	To create Pointers.
00:12	And operations on Pointers.
00:14	We will do this with the help of an example
00:18	To record this tutorial I am using Ubuntu operating system version 11.10
00:25	gcc and g++ compiler version 4.6.1 on Ubuntu
00:31	Let us start with an introduction to pointers
00:34	Pointers point to the locations in memory.
00.38	Pointers store the memory address.
00:41	It also gives value stored at that address.
00:45	Now, let us see an example on pointers
00:48	Note that our file name is pointers_demo.c
00:54	Let us go through the code now
00:56	This is our header file as stdio.h
01:00	This is our main function
01:03	Here we have long integer num assigned value 10.
01:09	Then we have declared a pointer ptr.
01:12	Asterisk sign is used to declare a pointer.
01:16	This pointer can point to type long int.
01:20	In the printf statement ampersand is used for retrieving memory address of the variable.
01:28	So ampersand num will give the memory address of num.
01:33	This statement will print the address of the variable num.
01:37	Over here ptr stores the address of num.
01:41	This statement will print the address of ptr.
01:45	Sizeof function will give the size of ptr.
01:49	This is will give the value of ptr.
01:51	That is the memory address of num.
01:54	And here asterisk ptr will give the value at the address.
01:59	So using asterisk will not give the memory address.
02:03	Instead it will give the value.
02:06	%ld is a format specifier for the long int
02:10	Now, let us execute the program
02:13	Open the terminal window by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard
02:21	To compile type gcc space pointers underscore demo dot c space hyphen o space point
02:32	Press Enter
02:34	Type dot slash point. Press Enter
02:39	The output is displayed
02:42	We see that the num address and ptr value is same.
02:48	Where as memory address of num and ptr are different.
02:53	Then the size of pointer is 8 bytes.
02:57	Also the value pointed by ptr is 10 which was assigned to num.
03:03	Now let us see the same program in C++.
03:07	Note that our file name is pointer underscore demo.cpp
03:13	Here we have few changes like the header file as iostream
03:19	Then we are using the std namespace
03:23	And we have the cout function in place of printf function
03:28	Rest all the things are similar
03:30	Let us execute the program. Come back to our terminal.
03:34	To compile type g++ space pointers_demo.cpp space hyphen o space point1, press Enter
03:50	Type dot slash point1, press Enter
03:55	We can see that the output is similar to our C program
04:00	This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
04:03	Come back to our slide
04:05	Let us summarize
04:06	In this tutorial, we learnt
04:08	About the pointer.
04:10	To create a pointer.
04:12	And operation on pointer.
04:14	As an assignment, write a C and C++ program,
04:18	To declare a variable and pointer.
04:21	Store the address of variable in the pointer.
04:24	And print the value of the pointer.
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05:10	This is Ashwini Patil from IIT Bombay signing off
05:14	Thank You for joining.

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