Help with Documentation translation

[Hydrasin]

Hi, I was just trying to understand the dereference operator portion of http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/pointers/ and was wondering if translating it to this would still be true:

// andy the homewrecker.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	int andy = 25;
	int * andysHouse = &andy;

	cout << "Andy is " << andy << endl;
	cout << "Andy lives at " << andysHouse << endl;
	cout << "The address of andy's house is " << andysHouse << endl;
	cout << "Andy's house contains andy who is " << *andysHouse << endl;

	cin.get();
	return 0;
}

For me, picturing andy inside of a house rather than inside of ted is a little easier to imagine (and slightly less....rainbowish(not that there's anything wrong with that)) Just wanted to make sure I'm getting the translation right.

[zb0S216C]

De-referencing is simple to understand:

When you de-reference a pointer, you're basically saying this: "Pointer, what are you pointing to?" De-referencing yields the value of the location to which it points.

Hydrasin wrote:

cout << "The address of andy's house is " << andysHouse << endl;

Here, andysHouse evaluates to the address of andy.

Hydrasin wrote:

For me, picturing andy inside of a house rather than inside of ted is a little easier to imagine

That's the best thing to do. Pointers are simple, but some find them difficult. By analogising pointers, it becomes simpler.

_Wazzak