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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Great intro to C and memory management. I've always wanted to learn C and lower level programming, and this was a great way to get started.
Zachary Taylor
United States
Pretty good course, wasn't as bad/hard as I expected it to be. (coming from C++)
Aduneer
Germany
I had programmed C before. the garbage collector part was fine up to refcounting but after that i just wrote programs based on the instructions and did not understand mark and sweep.
Kourosh Sarabadani
genova
Pointers are a tough challenge and you will want to give up but it really does shine when you learn how to create your garbage collectors :)
Martin Perez
France
Great course!
Meow Meow
Singapore
worst course ive taken on boot.dev, honestly terrible, i learned and retained very little
Cody Barton
Conroe, Texas
Awesome course! A must-do for anyone in the profession not already familiar with low-level memory management.
Jon Klaric
Brisbane, Australia
It was very good course in the beginning.Then GC part was useless for me. Yes, i got the idea but i forgot my code after 5 min. Probably that part is not for everyone.
Co
Turkey
lol this was very hard but worth it
Harry
London
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