c - ++ Operator on pointers -

my cs course taking bit of turn java c. i'm busy going on pointers @ moment , have come across ++ operator incrementing doens't work when dereferencing. more curiosity question else. not used pointers concept yet. doing wrong or pointers?

for example:

*pointer++; not increment value. *pointer+=1; increment value. 

thanks in advance!

*pointer++; 

is equivalent

*(pointer++);  // pointer incremented 

and not to

 (*pointer)++;  // pointee incremented