You can’t get away from pointers in C. Programmers familiar with other languages in which you never (or very rarely) see pointers (for example, Java, C#, Ruby or Python) often find pointers one of the hardest parts of learning C. Here is a very short video that explains the fundamentals of pointers in just three minutes!

Of course, there is much more to pointers than I’ve been able to cover in this video. If you really need to master pointers, take a look at my book, The Little Book Of Pointers.