Hello, CASP minions.
This is an ongoing collection of interesting real-world materials,
to go with the boring stuff you learn in class.

• The Power of Linux Piping

  Practical example of connecting various programs.

• Bit-Twiddling Hacks

  Helpful site to learn the various patterns of bitwise operations.

• Notes on Varnish

  Note also that he knows what he's talking about, even though he sounds like a dick.

• You're Doing it Wrong

  Dick guy again, basically the same arguments. Still interesting.

• Stroustrup's Vector vs List Experiment

  Great example why big O is just one half of the story.

• Linus' Rant on Array Parameters in C

  A detailed examination from the man himself, underlining the dangers of hiding C concepts with unneccessary syntactic sugar.

• Valgrind

  The manual memory-managers best friend.

• GDB - Debugging C Code

  "Learn C The Hard Way" is in itself a great resource.

• The Lost Art of C Struct Packing

  A lost art, that you will know!

• The Stack Frame

  Great overview of stack frame layout on x86-64.

• Implementing a Frame Allocator

  Ongoing series on implementing a kernel in the rust language.

• Understanding the x64 Code Models

  Relocation in detail.

• Data-Oriented Design

  Thinking about locality and how OOP might screw it up for you.

Code Examples
These short snippets are supposed to highlight very specific and concrete aspects of C and x86 programming.

• C - Stack vs. Heap

  Easy things to miss when dealing with memory.

• C - Pass by Value

  Showcasing the pitfalls of pass by value for the uninitiated.

• C - Struct Padding

  Another in a long series of unintuitive results.

• C - Casting

  The classic unexpected cast to unsigned.

• x86 - Basic I/O

  Calling functions for basic I/O in x86.