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Learn Memory Management in C

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Provider

Boot.dev
Pricing

Paid Course
Languages

English
Certificate

Paid Certificate Available
Duration & workload

24 hours
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

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Overview

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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.

Syllabus

C Basics

Introduction to the basics of the C programming language

Structs

Understand how C structs work and how they're laid out in memory

Pointers

You thought pointers were hard? Wrong. Let's figure them out together.

Enums

Learn how to use enums (enumerations) in C to create a set of named constants.

Unions

Unions in C are not the same as they are in TypeScript. Let's grok C unions.

Stack and Heap

Understand the difference between allocating memory on the stack and the heap

Advanced Pointers

Let's practice some more advanced pointer concepts - like pointers to pointers

Stack Data Structure

Build a stack in C using structs and pointers and understand where the memory is allocated

Objects

Implement your own object system for later use in your garbage collection algorithms

Refcounting GC

Implement a simple reference counting garbage collector from scratch in C

Mark and Sweep GC

Implement a basic mark and sweep garbage collector and understand its tradeoffs with refcounting

Taught by

TJ DeVries, Lane, Allan, Hunter, and Dan

Reviews

4.7 rating at Boot.dev based on 933 ratings

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