BasicBites - Programming

Execution, types, functions and lambdas

This section is concerned with things that distinguish one programming language from another. We will focus on program models, at higher levels of abstraction than code specifics.

The topics for this section are:

Program execution
- native process versus managed environments
Programming language types
- native versus managed representations of, and operations on, data
Passing arguments to called functions and lambdas
- pass by value and reference
Safety of compiled programs
- possibility of generating undefined behavior
Access to platform API
- direct bindings versus conversions
How program sources and binaries are structured
- functions, classes, packages
  executables, static libraries, shared libraries

You will find Visual Studio Code is an effective tool for creating code. Compiler Explorer is an interesting way to see how compilers and platforms affect the code you write.

VSCode Tooling for C#, C++, and Rust
- Download, configure, and use language tool chains
Compiler Explorer - godbolt.org
- Compile, execute, examine assembly and output for many languages including C++, Rust, and Java