Learn Memory Management in C
Get close to the metal: pointers, the stack, the heap, and a tiny garbage collector you build yourself.
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TJ DeVries
TJ DeVries (aka "teej") has never worked at Netflix, but if you've heard of Neovim, well, he's a maintainer! It's really not a big deal. He's also a top telescope.nvim contributor and knows how to read, which is impressive. He used to work at Sourcegraph before becoming a full time coding educator and content creator.
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Memory management is something that every programmer needs to deal with and understand at some point. If you're used to working with languages and tools that handle it for you, this course will teach you how all that works under the hood. You'll even build your own garbage collectors from scratch. This course will teach you the C basics you need for the course, but it's not a course about C, it's about memory.
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This very informative course really stretched my brain, in a good way! I was really excited to learn this aspect of coding!
Circe Nova
United States
tough, but a great course to learn about both C and memory management in lower level languages!
nicholas kasbar
United States
Great course on memory management! Very useful to understand what's under the hood.
Sergio Augusto
Brazil
Relatively complex for a newbie like me, but all the pointers and pointer pointers will start to click eventually.
Matt Dell
United Kingdom
Hate it but loved it. It's a must, go do it!
Ignacio Robles
Maitencillo, Chile
Great course !
Ege Karadeniz
Germany
Before, I was indifferent to memory management, but now I see... _the point!_
Farhan Jiwani
Canada
After a lot of confusion and many Baked Salmon eaten, I walk away with a great new toolkit and a better understanding of C and how memory management works. Tough course, but very good.
Bishoff
United States
I HAVE WITNESSED MY BRAIN CELLS GROW THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE COURSE !
Atri Bhatt
India
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