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Discussion on: Do they teach "pointers" in bootcamp? Should they?

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Deni • Edited

Even in C++ people probably won't juggle complicated pointers. But they might cause a memory leak in Java. They should understand why and how.

If not the above, they should understand linked lists and I'm not sure how to explain that without talking about references which are basically pointers that are automatically dereferenced when being accessed.