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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Challenging but really interesting
Kelechi Ogbonnaya
Nigeria
Reealllyyy ought to have better explanations of pointers, didn't really feel like the course writers wanted you to learn pointers, it felt like they just wanted you to spam salmon to boots and make him teach you.
Spirit
United States
It was a great course
Sailesh Rachapudi
United States
nice
Jan Jedrasiak
Poland
Great course if you want deeply understand stack/heap memory management and pointers.
Pooya Oladazimi
Hannover, Germany
i am an egyptian who already learnt C in the first 2 semesters college, i want to tell you that what i learnt in college is considered nothing compared to this course, the best part about this course (and the whole platform) is that you write tons of code, and that's makes you really understand the concept
Mazen Kassem
Egypt
Great intro to the syntax of C and the nitty gritty of memory management. Doesn't go too deep into the C language itself, so it definitely is primarily about how you might go about managing memory.
Scott Brown
Tulsa, United States
Difficult bit rewarding
James MacPherson
UK
This is hard as hell but very rewarding to grind through and understand!
Erin K
United Kingdom
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