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 is probably my favorite course I've taken so far. I finally feel like I have a better understanding of structs and pointer, and the concept of managing memory is way more approachable than it was before. 10/10, would recommend
Adam Guzman
California
who thought that managing memory would be fun and easy. learned a lot
Jisair C54
United States
Get ready for a challenge!
Daniel
Brasília, Brasil
This was a great course. Really surprised at how difficult I found it to work and think in C. Motivates me to try to find opportunities to work in it.
Stevan Freeborn
Olathe, Kansas
Fantastic course that goes from the very basics of C, to a very prototyped version of a programming language! It has endowed me with an understanding of many things unrelated to this course, for instance, I feel I'm a better Java developer now!
Anto"nino" Cangialosi
Pisa
Even though it wasn't the main goal, this course really helped me visualise structures and pointers better, for which I'm grateful. It was interesting to see how the language works and takes space. I had a hard time understanding what the author was explaining in some lessons though.
Laura
France
The final section on the mark-and-sweep garbage collector was really difficult to follow. Even though I managed to finish the course, I'm still scratching my head trying to understand how it all fits together.
Sahib
Canada
Makes you feel like a real programmer
alfons
United States
A course that will truly make you fall in love with programming! You get to the meat of the thing and now you can brag that you know C!
Akram Naser
Switzerland
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