[Chicago-talk] Just enough C for open source programmers
Andy Lester
andy at petdance.com
Fri May 16 09:14:04 PDT 2008
On July 8th, 2008, I'll be giving a talk at the Wheaton branch of
Polyglot Programmers. It will be the same talk I'll be giving a few
weeks later at OSCON: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3050
This session will provide a high-level overview of C, aimed
specifically at the programmer wanting to get involved in a C-based
open source project. We’ll cover:
* Numeric types, strings and structures
* Memory management: the heap, the stack, and pointers
* Using the preprocessor
* Understanding compiler warnings
* Memory checking with valgrind
* How to navigate a large C-based open source project (ctags, etc)
* Security, or, how the Bad Guys smash the stack
Although Perl 5 is written in C, I will NOT be getting into specifics
of Perl 5 internals, so if that's what you're interested in, please
don't be disappointed.
The full schedule of all Polyglot Programmers talks are available at http://polyglotprogrammers.com/
I hope to see y'all there.
xoxo,
Andy
--
Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
More information about the Chicago-talk
mailing list