Perhaps the most slippery aspect for beginners in programming. I learned C in an environment that requires the use of pointers (PalmOS) so, I wasn’t terribly concerned.

I did spot a typo, though. After carefully introducing the new and delete keywords (new allocates memory and returns the address of the allocated memory and delete deallocates it) a FAQ box referred to a malloc() call.

malloc() (memory allocate) is a C – NOT C++ – call that does the same as the new keyword in C++.

This the first of what will probably be many typos. This was common for many technical books of the time…There was, literally, a gold rush as people poured into the technology market and book companies rushed their books into print to capitalize on the interest of those folks. It was the largest section in the bookstore the day I bought this book.

My work on this experiment continues apace (despite my illness).