What the hell is an algorithm? This article will focus on explaining the concepts behind low-level programming and algorithms, more specifically what their implementation looks like in real world professional use cases. The target audience for this article is novice, it is intended to give a newcomer a general understanding behind the key concepts that make…

The internet has become an extension of our brain’s capacity, an artificial digital prosthetic that expands our biological capability to transcend our natural limitations. We rely heavily on the internet in order to quickly and easily access all the information we could possibly need, but rarely do we ask ourselves…

Our main function isn’t happy until our y value equals 0. To evaluate this condition it runs through a series of if statements that, if triggered, will modify the value of y, adding or subtracting accordingly. Our function is called over and over again until it is satisfied. Eventually our function calls itself again a last time, having reached the final value of x = 0 and y = 0, it can finally rest.

Assuming you’re already somewhat familiar with the Python programming language I’m sure you’ve heard it referred to as “object-oriented”, today we will be taking a deep dive into what exactly that means. To simplify let’s break it down into a series of topics: what even is an “object”? What are…

What are they? Programmers are lazy. They go through great lengths to automate and streamline the tedious everyday tasks that, when repeated over and over again, take up an increasing amount of time and keystrokes. One of the things programmers use the most are functions. C has a handy little trick up it’s…

The short answer to “what happens if you type ‘ls -l *.c’ in a shell?” is it prints out a list in long format of every file that ends in a .c extension. But we’re not here for the short answer, let’s get the -l answer. …

Introduction A static library, also known as a statically-linked list, is simply a common space used to store object files. Once created they allow the user to be able to link programs with each other without requiring recompilation. They also allow 3rd party linking without having to give out the library…

What happens when you type gcc main.c? GCC, short for GNU compiler collection, is a compilation program that takes your high-level (human language) code and translates it into low-level machine code (binary). It consists primarily of 4 individual modules: Preprocessor — removes any comments and translates macros (if any) into code Compiler — translates the code into…

So you’ve hacked your way around a terminal, neat. You’re probably familiar with basic commands like mkdir, cd, rm, and ls, but have you ever wondered what exactly makes them work the way they do? If the answer is yes you’ve come to the right blog! …