Hey, I just started learning c++, I am using bloodshed 4 (beta5 looked better but it couldnt find iostreams.h for some reason) anyway, it is pretty straight forward so far, but 3 things:

1. What is Enumeration? Can someone tell me what its for and an example.

2. What would pointers be used for? *I think* they give you the memory address of where a variable is stored, or the value of that variable but why would you ever need to use pointers?

3. How would I make variables public/private in C++? Do you just declare outside the function? what about something like 'static NAME as TYPE' in Vb, how would you do that in C++.