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Just Enough C for Open Source Projects

Andy Lester (theworkinggeek.com) Moderated by: Andy Lester

11:35am Thursday, 07/24/2008

Programming
Location: Portland 251

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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

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Andy Lester

theworkinggeek.com

Andy Lester (http://perlbuzz.com) is the lead programmer for Book Wholesalers Inc, (http://bwibooks.com/). He’s active in the Parrot, Perl 6 and Perl 5 projects, and maintains over a dozen testing-related modules. His current non-code project is a book for Pragmatic Bookshelf on job search strategies for programmers, sysadmins and other technical people.

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