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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Insanely in-depth and rigorous course.
Caesar Brahh
United States
i hated almost every second of this course. i know nothing about c and it was head-deskingly painful.
Nic Good
United States
Hard, brainmelting, satisfying.
Mateusz Paszkowski
Germany
the best C learning source that i get so far
Naufal abiyan
Indonesia
A lesson to get an understanding of how the stuff works under the hood. One could possibly do without but I recommend it in order to achieve a holistic comprehension of the machine. You end up with better foundations having done this.
Pavlos Pappas
Cyprus
I was a humanities major and took a single fortran course back in the day. I always heard C was daunting so never even attempted to look at it. C is less daunting than I feared in a lot of ways and introduced a lot of concepts that I never suspected that I fear now. (Sort of.) But I learned a lot about what languages like Python or Java hide below the surface and you're never exposed to except in cryptic error messages you might look up on stack overflow (which means more now!)
Mireille C
United States
Nice course
Tsuyoshi
Earth
Superb
Kelvin Kitheka
Netherlands
thanks teej 😂
J W
United States
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