know what? i like the green, but i'd like it better if it had th beige title font used on blue's cover.

i'm not so much a fan of th flourescent chlorophyll green.

The blue looks better to me. The title is more legible. At least get rid of the clorophyll green title.

I like the blue better. But, it's hard to make a decision based on what you see on a screen--the actual book won't have light shining from behind it.

But, of course, you gotta choose which one *you* like best!

I like the green cover better, but I'll like sneek peaks at the inside more. :)

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Note the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.

The Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.

Our next line looks familiar, except it starts with an asterisk. Again, we're using the star operator, and noting that this variable we're working with is a pointer. If we didn't, the computer would try to put the results of the right hand side of this statement (which evaluates to 6) into the pointer, overriding the value we need in the pointer, which is an address. This way, the computer knows to put the data not in the pointer, but into the place the pointer points to, which is in the Heap. So after this line, our int is living happily in the Heap, storing a value of 6, and our pointer tells us where that data is living.

Seth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.

When the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.