Types And Pointers

All a type is in computer science is just a label that tells the compiler what kinds of operations, methods, and values that a specific amount of memory can do.

An object is just an abstraction of a memory cell.

A value is a bit or collection of bits that is inside of that memory cell.

The base type of a pointer is SUPER important because pointers are just a variable that stores the address of an object, and then the type of the pointer tells the compiler how to interpret that bit of memory.

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