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The Ternary Operator (examples in C and C++) // The ternary operator confuses a lot of beginning programmers. This video will hopefully sort things out for you.
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: I'm a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
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The Ternary Operator (examples in C and C++) // The ternary operator confuses a lot of beginning programmers. This video will hopefully sort things out for you.
***
Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: I'm a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![How to Blink LEDs with Timers and Interrupts in C (MSP430, Arduino)
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#EmbeddedSystems
How to Blink LEDs with Timers and Interrupts in C (Arduino, MSP430) // Heres another embedded system video. This video teaches you to use timers and interrupts for a more efficient, flexible, and elegant alternative to the usual introductory LED-blink programs. This is another under-the-hood embedded programming video that shows you how to configure simple timers on the Arduino Uno (Atmega328p) and the MSP430FR5969 and use interrupt service routines to handle those timer events when they fire.
Other embedded videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9IEJIKnBJjEcPAz6fss-Hx0TLytCOMVC.
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![This Channel is Biased!...and happy new year.
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![Why are my ADC readings messed up? (Arduino example)
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![Understanding the For Loop (examples in C)
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Understanding the For Loop (examples in C) // For loops seem to give beginners more trouble than while loops. So, I thought we would break them down a bit and try to take some of the mystery out of one of the most common programming constructs out there.
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![Testing matters. Watch those corner cases.
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Testing matters. Watch those corner cases. // Lets take a look at the bug from last weeks video. Basically, its an issue of not watching for our corner cases or edge cases.
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Prior Bug video: https://youtu.be/KjPvEcds0QA
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
To Support the Channel:
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![Binary data exercise: how to tell if a file is a jpeg?
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Binary data exercise: how to tell if a file is a jpeg? // today I thought we would look at binary data, in the form of JPG images, and specifically see if we can write a program that will test whether or not a file is JPEG. Were looking at this in both C and Ruby, so you can see some of the pitfalls that you can run into with higher-level languages.
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Hexadecimal: https://youtu.be/dPxCGlW9lfM
Hex Editors: https://youtu.be/-eDY7yh-CyA
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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![One reason to Modify your Memory Allocator (C/C++)
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One reason to Modify your Memory Allocator (C/C++) // We tend to take our memory allocator (malloc) for granted. Its always there and it works well. But, theres always room for improvement. This video tutorial describes one reason why you might want to make some changes to malloc that are going to make it easier to catch bugs in your programs.
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xmalloc: https://youtu.be/dpjt_D8xcPU
shims: https://youtu.be/5HuM_eVjFJo
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
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![A Guided Meditation for Programmers
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Happy April 1st, everyone! I thought we could use a little guided meditation to help you error messages-scarred programmers out there heal a bit.
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
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![What are wide characters?
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What are wide characters? // Wide characters, wide chars, wchar_t. We cant get very far into Unicode territory without coming across wide characters. This video gives you an introduction into one of the ways that you can store unicode text in your programs.
Related Videos:
a warning about char: https://youtu.be/a0MfSwavE9g
what is unicode?: https://youtu.be/Xrj6MrPYnZA
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
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http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![Batteryless computing, conferences, and the Maui fires (with Prof. Josiah Hester)
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
https://www.jacobsorber.com
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~jsorber/
http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
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![How does fork work with open files?
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How does fork work with open files? // Fork clones processes. Weve talked about that before, and we know that fork copies a processs memory, but what happens with open file handles? In this video, Ill provide a little insight.
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Fork: https://youtu.be/ss1-REMJ9GA
More Fork: https://youtu.be/kDxjcyHu_Qs
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Welcome! I post videos that help you learn to program and become a more confident software developer. I cover beginner-to-advanced systems topics ranging from network programming, threads, processes, operating systems, embedded systems and others. My goal is to help you get under-the-hood and better understand how computers work and how you can use them to become stronger students and more capable professional developers.
About me: Im a computer scientist, electrical engineer, researcher, and teacher. I specialize in embedded systems, mobile computing, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things. I teach systems and networking courses at Clemson University, where I also lead the PERSIST research lab.
More about me and what I do:
https://www.jacobsorber.com
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~jsorber/
http://persist.cs.clemson.edu/
To Support the Channel:
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