In this section, we will learn about using pointers, a topic that a lot of students and developers unlike find a bit intimidating, but that's often because it's either taught poorly or sometimes misunderstood. I think if you follow along carefully, review where necessary and practice that both, the syntax and concepts will be fairly clear to you by the end of the section. We will explore not only the very basic concepts and fundamentals but also where the power of pointers lie, in pointing to dynamically allocated memory. We will see how to allocate memory dynamically and also how to return it when we're done. The types of pointers we will use in this section are also called raw pointers. They have been around since C++ began, starting with the C++ 11 standard. Many people use so-called smart pointers or managed pointers. We won't be covering those in this section. We'll cover smart pointers later in the course. Pointers are an amazingly powerful tool, especially when coupled with dynamic memory allocation. They help us create objects as needed rather than having to know ahead of time exactly how many of something you'll need. This helps us to use memory efficiently, which is often very important in industrial projects and memory intense applications of all sorts, and also helps us to do things we wouldn't be able to do otherwise creating objects on the fly or even in a randomized manner. So, we are in for learning a lot of important things in this section. At the end of this section, we'll work on a couple of really cool projects too. We'll revisit our rectangle and circle classes, but create instances of them dynamically instead of in a compile-time fashion like we did before. Let's get going.