If you're a programmer, should know how your computer works; if pointers are too "hard" for you, you're in the wrong business. You're settling for mediocrity and belittling your own intelligence by assuming you're not capable of tackling this stuff the same way everyone else has.
Teachers are more valuable than belittlers. "This isn't hard" is not a lesson plan or a path to enlightenment.
Now if you don't like the features of this IDE, that's fair. You're free to stick to whatever you're currently using. Given that Tenacious C will be a paid app when it is done, I doubt I'll really be interested, given what I can use for free that gets the job done more than adequately.
I realise I'm being tangential now, but thought I'd mention it anyway.
If you can't understand that, I don't see how you are going to write a computer program. The deeper issues are things like object lifetimes, call-by-value versus call-by-reference semantics, and so on.