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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A great look at pretty much every feature in C and how memory is managed. Ideal if you want a challenge and to learn about the kinds of algorithms and data structures being used in higher level C-based languages, operating systems and other C software.
JLH M
Australia
Never have seen C before. But, in order to learn Odin, I thought this course was a great course to see what's up. Last few parts were really difficult because I was not used to it, but at least I finished the course. I will go over again one by one.
Harim Yoo
South Korea
This course was incredibly informative and occasionally difficult. I feel like I have a much better appreciation for the "magic" that happens behind the scenes in higher level languages.
Bryce Croft
United States
C is a psychopathic language that makes you feel like you have the biggest brain in the world 10/10
decoy
Germany
For years I've searched, and finally I've found a course that helps me understand how I can manage memory without chasing compiler errors by adding "free"s and "malloc"s haphazardly. Creating a GC from scratch is a great way to understand how they work _and_ how manual memory management is still at the center of it.
Lord Honk
Germany
TJ is kewl
Omota Paul-Daniel
Alges, Portugal
Great course, still I hope the exercise are less guided
Long Pham
Tampere, Finland
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
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