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Programming Foundations: Memory, Pointers, and Garbage Collection

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Explore the basic tools and concepts of memory management in common programming languages like C and Python.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Getting started with memory management
  • Are you ready to learn memory management?
1. Memory Management Concepts
  • What is memory?
  • Why do we need to manage the memory?
  • Stack memory
  • Heap memory
  • Heap vs. stack memory
  • Allocating memory
  • Deallocating memory
  • Garbage collection
  • Actual removing or sweeping
2. Memory Management in Code
  • The C way: Allocating memory
  • The C way: Deallocating and reallocating memory
  • The automagic way in modern languages
  • Memory management in Python
  • Memory in Python visualized
3. Memory Leaks and Best Practices
  • What are memory leaks?
  • Out of Memory error
  • Avoiding memory leaks
  • Best practices with memory
Conclusion
  • Next steps in memory management

Taught by

Maaike van Putten

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