The latest articles on DEV Community by Mahmoud Salama (@madsalama). https://dev.to/madsalama https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F94925%2Ff86c23bc-9370-4993-9857-d0fe7819623f.jpeg https://dev.to/madsalama en Mahmoud Salama Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:11:37 +0000 https://dev.to/madsalama/achievement-deserialized-5d10 https://dev.to/madsalama/achievement-deserialized-5d10 <p>Finally conquered C deserialization! I figured out that a function was setting the address of a main loop variable to the address of a local variable in the function (which gets popped duh - misleading garbage values were everywhere) instead of setting the data in the main loop! The more you know!</p> <p>PS: I'm working on a unix domain socket daemon that handles and manages inotify watch requests to automate a boring part of my job! #c #unix #linux #beginners</p> c unix linux beginners Mahmoud Salama Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:06:45 +0000 https://dev.to/madsalama/c-programming-1f9f https://dev.to/madsalama/c-programming-1f9f <p>What are some of the cool projects a beginner can work on to learn C?<br> I've only been a *nix user for my job but I'm interested in low level details of how things work w the kernel. </p> <p>EDIT: Thanks for your responses! But to be clear, I need some context. A non-trivial project that will make use of special C features like pointers, structs and direct memory manipulation; because I've never worked on those before!</p> beginners c help