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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Lucas Strauss
United States
It was a good course, but man do I hate c programming. xD Memory management is hard.
David Rutherford
United States
It's tough, but interesting. Now I want to work in low level stuff. Rust here I come.
Abdullah Shahad
Bangladesh
Very tough course.
Mike Davidson
Flat Rock, USA
C is awful. But learning how things work under the hood was cool. But man I never want to touch C again.
DrProfWallaby
United States
A rewarding course in C memory management, I found it hard conceptually at first but studied the key concepts over and practiced until I understood pointer and the memory concepts required. The last few chapters are a challenge and require focus and dedication to complete. Mark and Sweep is abstract but it works. Building the snek_objects is the best part as it really shows of C fundamentals!
Jon Mann
United Kingdom
Amazing course! Very insightful and excellently designed, I learned so much about how memory works under the hood in all my programs!
Yuri
United States
Solid course to teach memory management in C. It is nice to understand how a garbage collector works.
Louis Van Steelant
Bruges, Belgium
This was a hard one and wasnt what i like BUT i Learned alot ! THANKS!
Andreas Lindh
Sweden
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