Timeline for What's a nice explanation for pointers?
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| Mar 7, 2012 at 6:33 | comment | added | Karthik Sreenivasan | +1 The analogy is retains the same concept as the one explained by Barfieldmv but with a more real life approach. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 0:15 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Nov 16, 2010 at 7:27 | comment | added | DarenW | That's good in a way, but somewhat misleading, as the cards don't actually say where the book is. You still need to execute a sneaker-oriented search algorithm. Maybe this better models a database - refering to a stored object by a key (call number). | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 21:16 | comment | added | Gary | +1 for the memory of my CS course where I had exactly that explanation | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 18:36 | history | answered | Yevgeniy Brikman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |