Bitwise Manipulation & Binary Arithmetic
How integers live in silicon, and how masks and flags turn a single word into a compact control plane.
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S1 · filming
Memory & Low-Level Programming
Bits, addresses, and the call stack versus the heap. Draw the memory, and you own the program. Struct layout returns beside the caches in S12, and file I/O opens the file system arc in S9.
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E1 E2 Pointers & Direct Memory Addressing
RAM as a byte-indexed array: addresses, dereferencing, and the bugs that follow when you get them wrong.
S1E2.1 · S1E2.2 · S1E2.3
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E3 Stack vs Heap & Dynamic Memory Allocation
Call frames versus malloc. Fragmentation, heap metadata, and what a free-list allocator actually does.
S1E3.1 · S1E3.2 · S1E3.3.1 · S1E3.3.2
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