i want to learn how to code....

[CrashMan]

No, all compilers/assemblers involve pointers. The languages may or may not. The closest thing to a pointer a person programming in C# will ever see is using the 'ref' keyword when pasing a variable by reference, even though everything in C# is technically a pointer from the compiler/framework's perspective. However, the programmer really needs to no nothing about pointers to program in C# (unfortunately)

And there are certainly more powerful languages than others. Any one who has spent any amount of time programming will tell you OOP is more powerful than procedural programming, and as such C++ is more powerful than C (or pretty much any procedural language)

Indeed, Algorithms and Data structures are the most important thing when developing applications, but when learning a language they are not important what so ever. A merge sort is a merge sort whether it is in ASM, C++, Perl, or writting in psuedo code on a piece of paper. Learning a language and learning algorithms and data structures are completely independant. Someone who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer can be taught how an algorithm or data structure functions...

Please understand what you are talking about before trying to discredit a large swath of people. Thanks.