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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What you'll learn in this C course
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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i think it gets tedious sometimes !! . but overall a good course . worth the time . even better if try to binge ! .
Rahul Upadhyay
India
This is such an amazing course! It definitely sparked my interest in learning more about C/C++ programming. Above all, it thought me more about pointers than any other course I've taken before.
Marcelo Borges
Germany
It is a good course but a lot of the content should have been presented upfront, in-depth, in a video before we go to piece-by-piece implementation. The way it is presented here makes it easy to follow the "next" step but you're always lost on the specifics of what is the greater picture going on. I wish I there was more substance to the ideas and even history of the content showed before we get to implement. In general, the course tests are a bit lenient but the coding part doesn't need more.
Rodrigo Meireles
Brazil
hardest course I've taken on boot.dev so far, really shows how much nicer it is to work with a high level language but I appreciate the low abstraction when working with C :)
Andre
Philadelphia, PA
Tough as nails, but honestly felt I learnt a lot of stuff I would have never otherwise. Huge amount more of respect gained for what's going on under the hood.
Ryan Royals
Adelaide, Australia
Before doing this course I didn't really understand what is a Stack or a Heap that well, this helped a lot into getting more understanding on what are their diferences. It was also very cool to code in C and learn how to do a basic GC.
Luigi Minardi
Europe
Real frustrating experience.
Matt Stankovich
Canada
This course was really challenging for me but now I'm more conscious abot the performance of my codes.
Enes Yıldırım
Turkey
Great intro to C and memory management. I've always wanted to learn C and lower level programming, and this was a great way to get started.
Zachary Taylor
United States
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