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I recently made a switch to Emacs and I stumbled upon a "bug" in the Windows OS when it comes to writing portable code in C. I will explain this bug in great detail in this article. Let's first examine the bug. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h>...
In this article, I will explain what pointers are and how to use them. But to understand pointers, we need a quick overview on how a computer handles/stores data. RAM RAM (Random Access Memory) is a component in your computer that stores data. Her...
Here, I will outline the importance of pointers and why we should use them when building programs in C. What is a Pointer? A pointer is a special variable where the value if a memory address. Reasons to Use Pointers Accessing data by ...
In this article, I will explain how to dynamically allocate memory in C. malloc() This function allows us to dynamically allocate memory. This function comes from the standard library. You specify the number of bytes of memory you want to alloca...
What is Recursion In Computer Science, recursion is a method in which a function calls itself. We can use recursion to solve many different problems such as: Towers of Hanoi Tree Traversals DFS(Depth First Search) For Graphs An analogy that bett...
What is Big O Notation? In Computer Science, Big O Notation is used to describe the performance of an algorithm. In other words, how well will this algorithm scale as the input grows larger? With Big O Notation, we are always taking into considerati...