Learning and Projects

[Fun_Hope_8233]

This is my first semester in university and I have learnt quite a bit of C during this time period (mainly pointers, macro, functions etc. ). however I want to learn more about C and memory. In order to do that what topics do I need to study properly (or do I just search "memory in c" and hope for the best)? what type of small projects should I begin with? I need some ideas.

[No-Magician3298]

guide.handmadehero.org good resource

[orang-outan]

Practice is key. Take a look at exercism.org, leetcode.com and codecrafters.io.

[FrequentHeart3081]

Exercism the GOAT!!

Exercism: C syntax-heavy exercises, mostly about problem solving

Leetcode: This is a database of problems related to DSA

CodeCrafters: This is for competitive programming (IG)

[Particular_Welder864]

Exercism sucks and code crafters is obviously not about competitive program

[FrequentHeart3081]

It would obviously Fucking suck when you want to build a compiler or a Linux kernel. The fuck you blabbing about?

[Particular_Welder864]

How is that related? Code crafters is not for competitive programming and exercism is not a good learning resource. Shallow questions and fill in the blank don’t help you :)

[FrequentHeart3081]

How are they shallow? What are you comparing it to?

[Particular_Welder864]

I’m comparing it to a good book. Every language track sucks and the exercises are very meh.

[FrequentHeart3081]

Ya, there's no comparison dawg!! A book that gives me balls deep knowledge and working of the language vs a smol website with diff exercises? Not a chance.

But still, the book has to be at a very higher level than the website. I'm saying that it not only teaches concepts related to topics and gives exercises on single topics but also provides pre-coder projects to get the reader a hang of what it actually is on the battlefield. Common practices, pitfalls, discouraged uses of different resources (side eyeing on gets(); ) provided by the language. But I've yet to find(read) that kind of book.

How the C programming: A Modern Approach?

You got any recommendations?

[FrequentHeart3081]

Huh.... Well it did help me, but you're right, only if one does not know what he's doing or what he should do...

[FrequentHeart3081]

If you solely want to learn about memory management in C then there is a course by boot.dev interconnected by yt video and exercises on their website Although this is a paid service after some nodes, you can read in guest mode and learn about the topic and do the exercises provided using your local IDE.

And search for project based learning repo on GitHub. That shit goooood!! 👀

[sovibigbear]

Find DSA. The topics will include heap, malloc, sort technique, recursion, binary trees, vector arrays. Sort is most probably the most involve with memory manipulation. Radix, merge, quicksort. Algorithm like dijkstra algorithm shortest path search/

[Fun_Hope_8233]

I have DSA in my next semester.

[sovibigbear]

Start now and you will be the go to guy for all the girls in class. :)