OSS-101

A gentle introduction to open source software development via C programming. This is best classified as a collection of resources and not a full-fledged course/tutorial :p.

6-week Course Outline Session 1

Week 1: Writing and compiling C programs

• Introduction
• Setting up an editor or IDE
• Setting up git
• Simple "hello world" program

Week 2: Introduction to pointers

• Pointers and addresses
• Pointer arithmetic
• Pointers as function arguments

Week 3: Arrays and more fun with pointers

• Arrays vs pointers
• Pointers to pointers
• Pointers to structures
• Pointers to functions

Week 4: Memory Management

• Storage classes
• Memory allocation
• Dynamic memory allocations via malloc/free

Weeks 5 - 6: Simple memory allocator project

Description: TBD