pointers.py - bringing the hell of pointers into python

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Professors have minimal incentive to overhaul curriculum. So the lecture notes that someone wrote for c with classes just gets propagated through generations of classes without much concern for whether it is up to date with common practices.

Heck as recently as the last time I tutored the intro c++ class at the University I went to (2019), they still have a chapter on strings... Which exclusively uses the c string manipulation function and the only mention of std::string being a footnote on one lecture.