Low-level programming, operating systems, memory management, and system internals
← Back to Computer ScienceMaster the foundation language for systems programming with memory management and pointers.
Deep dive into how programs use memory and manage system resources efficiently.
Understand how operating systems create, schedule, and manage running programs.
Learn concurrent programming with threads, synchronization, and parallel execution.
Explore how data is stored, organized, and accessed on persistent storage devices.
Master the interface between user programs and the operating system kernel.
Build networked applications using sockets and network protocols.
Automate system tasks and build command-line tools with shell programming.
Understand security principles and implement secure systems programming practices.
Optimize system performance through profiling, monitoring, and tuning techniques.
Learn how to write kernel modules and device drivers for hardware interaction.
Understand low-level programming and computer architecture through assembly language.
Master the tools and processes for building, testing, and deploying system software.
Explore cutting-edge topics in systems programming and emerging technologies.
Master the foundation language for systems programming with memory management and pointers.
Learn C language fundamentals, primitive types, operators, and control structures for system programming.
Master pointer manipulation, address arithmetic, and memory access patterns essential for low-level programming.
Understand C-style arrays, string handling, and the relationship between arrays and pointers.
Implement dynamic function calls, callback mechanisms, and polymorphism in C programming.
Design complex data types, understand memory layout, and implement efficient data structures.
Master malloc, calloc, realloc, and free for runtime memory management and avoiding memory leaks.
Learn defensive programming techniques, memory debugging, and strategies for robust memory handling.
Utilize essential library functions for string manipulation, I/O operations, and mathematical computations.
Deep dive into how programs use memory and manage system resources efficiently.
Understand different memory regions, their characteristics, and appropriate use cases for each.
Learn how operating systems provide memory abstraction, paging, and address translation.
Study first-fit, best-fit, worst-fit algorithms and their impact on memory fragmentation.
Understand automatic memory management techniques and their trade-offs in system design.
Identify, diagnose, and fix memory leaks using tools like Valgrind and AddressSanitizer.
Implement memory-mapped files and inter-process communication through shared memory regions.
Optimize code for cache performance through data locality and cache-friendly algorithms.
Learn about memory protection, segmentation faults, and hardware-assisted security features.
Understand how operating systems create, schedule, and manage running programs.
Learn process states (running, ready, blocked) and transitions in the process lifecycle.
Master Unix process creation primitives and understand parent-child process relationships.
Study FCFS, SJF, Round Robin, and priority scheduling algorithms for CPU time allocation.
Understand the overhead and mechanics of switching between processes and saving state.
Implement pipes, message queues, and shared memory for inter-process communication.
Learn asynchronous event handling through Unix signals and custom signal handlers.
Understand process cleanup, preventing zombie processes, and handling orphaned processes.
Use tools like ps, top, and htop to monitor processes and implement process control mechanisms.
Learn concurrent programming with threads, synchronization, and parallel execution.
Master pthread library for creating, joining, and managing threads in multithreaded applications.
Learn mutexes, condition variables, and barriers for coordinating thread execution.
Implement critical sections and resource counting using mutual exclusion and semaphore mechanisms.
Understand deadlock conditions and implement strategies to prevent and detect deadlocks.
Solve classic concurrency problems using bounded buffers and synchronization primitives.