Programming Foundations: Memory, Pointers, and Garbage Collection

Explore the basic tools and concepts of memory management in common programming languages like C and Python.

Introduction

• Getting started with memory management
• Are you ready to learn memory management?

1. Memory Management Concepts

• What is memory?
• Why do we need to manage the memory?
• Stack memory
• Heap memory
• Heap vs. stack memory
• Allocating memory
• Deallocating memory
• Garbage collection
• Actual removing or sweeping

2. Memory Management in Code

• The C way: Allocating memory
• The C way: Deallocating and reallocating memory
• The automagic way in modern languages
• Memory management in Python
• Memory in Python visualized

3. Memory Leaks and Best Practices

• What are memory leaks?
• Out of Memory error
• Avoiding memory leaks
• Best practices with memory

Conclusion

• Next steps in memory management