What is the use of pointers in coding?

Question

Practical use of pointers

Answer 1

Try looking into advanced data structures which implements pointers to complete an algorithm.

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson18.html

Answer 2

There act like shortcuts for code,

like your desktop apps.

The apps exist in the " C/ " folder.

The shortcuts POINT to the location of the original file to open it.