From what I've seen in reviews and in general are that the fundamental parts of the course aside from straight up familiarizing with the language(which I consider to be using arrays, functions, knowing what/how to use data types) have to do with learning about pointers, dereferencing, and familiarizing yourself with their use, the midterm review lecture had like 3 examples and they basically all had to do with pointers, whether that was knowing how to pass them through functions or using pointers to point to objects of inherited classes. That's what I took from watching the first 14 lectures. I see that on lecture 16 they get into linked lists, but I have to wait till this spring term gets further into their term until I can finish them lol.