Memory allocators divide up memory into pieces. But how can an allocator's author allocate memory to track the pieces?
The shells used in terminals – Bash, zsh, etc. – are little compilers wrapped in a loop. We build one with working pipes.
Data compression can be simple. Huffman coding, as used in ZIP, MPEG, and MP3, is built around one clever use of a tree.
We build six fundamental programming tools from scratch in about thirty minutes each. Each focuses on understanding the core behavior of the tool, rather than the esoteric details and legacy concerns of real-world implementations.
The 90 classic Destroy All Software screencasts explain advanced programming practices via concrete examples: testing, design, fluency with tools like Unix shells, and other topics. Customers rave about their density, concision, breadth of scope, and depth of detail.
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I'm Gary Bernhardt. You know me from Wat and, with luck, from Boundaries or The Birth & Death of JavaScript.
These screencasts are the ones that I wish I'd had for myself: dense, brief, concrete demonstrations of topics that we usually only talk about in the abstract.
