Question: What is a pointer?
Instructor answer: A variable that contains the address in memory of another variable.

Student answer: Its a location in memory that contains the memory address of another location in memory that contains information.
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: A pointer is a variable that contains a memory address as its value.
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Student answer: A pointer is a variable which stores the address of another variable.
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Student answer: Pointers are variables that contain as their values memory addresses of other variables.
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: A data type whose value refers to another value stored elsewhere in the computer memory using its address.
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: a pointer holds a memory location
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: a name that represents actual location or value of a data type.<br>int *bPtr points to an integer value.
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: A variable that stores the address of another variable
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: a pointer is a programming language data type whose value refers directly to (or “points to”) another value stored elsewhere in the computer memory using its address
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: A data type whose value refers to another value stored somewhere else in the computer memory using its address.
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Student answer: It is like a variable however instead of holding data, it holds a location in memory.
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: A pointer is a reference to a location in memory
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Student answer: A pointer is a reference to the memory location of an object.
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: A pointer is a variable that contains the memory address of a variable that has a value.
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: It is a variable that contains not only a *value but has a memory address associated with it, and can be moved along a string or an array by jumping up one memory address.
Score (0-5): 3.5

Student answer: Contains a variable's memory address as a value.
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Student answer: variable that points to the memory address of another variable and it is type specific.
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Student answer: An element that references a memory cell
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Student answer: Is a reference call to the place in memory where the object is stored.
Score (0-5): 4

Student answer: a variable that contains the address of another variable
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: A pointer variable contains the number of a memory address as its value, which may be null or 0, or the address of some value stored in memory.
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: A pointer is a variable that contains a memory address of anther variable
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: A variable that contains the memory address of another variable that contains a specific value.
Score (0-5): 5

Student answer: a variable with a memory address as the value
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: it is a type that points to something else. It is the memory address of something else
Score (0-5): 4.5

Student answer: A pointer is a way to get at another object. Essentially it is a way to grab an instance of an object and then either pass that instance a message or retreive some data from that object. A pointer is actually just an address of where an instance is held in memory.
Score (0-5): 4.5