If you don't know pointers you don't know C or C++.
I'm glad that we don't have to use (C/C++ type) pointers in VB. I think that about 95% of all bugs in programs written in C/C++ is because of pointers or pointer assignment. And we actually don't need them in VB. We can pass arguments ByRef and we can use the AddressOf keyword for callbacks.

As far as I know C# will not have any pointers.