Concluding Thoughts

Looking back

Often, in introductory programming language courses, what happens behind the scenes as a program is compiled and executed is abstracted out and glossed over. That’s impossible to do with the C language. The insights we get from learning to program in C tend to stay with us for a lifetime.

At the outset of this course, we were pulled into a world where different data types take different amounts of memory. As we progressed, we saw how variables are allocated in different ...