// A program to introduce you to another variable type 
// POINTERS!

// Sasha 22T3, Week 4: Pointers - a basic intro

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {

    // Demonstrating a normal variable 
    // Declare a variable and assign a value to it
    // (declare and initialise normal variable)
    int my_variable = 13;

    // Declare a pointer and assign the address of
    // my_variable to it (declare and initialise a pointer)
    int *my_variable_ptr = &my_variable;

    // Example of dereferencing a pointer
    printf("The pointer variable my_variable_ptr has value %p\n", my_variable_ptr);
    printf("This pointer has its own address: %p\n", &my_variable_ptr);
    printf("It is pointing to the variable my_variable, which has value %d\n", *my_variable_ptr);
    

    return 0;
}