[ale] [OT] Anyone up for a 90 Day Wonder Challenge?

[Scott M. Jones]

On 11/26/15 6:41 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
> Soo...Scott, does that mean you're volunteering to be a resident
> mentor?  :P

I'd be interested in helping to the extent that I can.  We went to C++
in 2001 and Java in 2006, and since I've also done Perl, C#.Net,
Javascript/Angular, and Salesforce (which is a cloud-based Java derived
service).  It has been a while since I've done pure C but I think that's
true for a lot of people.

I did go back and pull my book C: A Reference Manual and it is second
edition.  The latest is fifth edition.

I'd be interested in exploring/experimenting with virtual classroom
options.  One possibility not mentioned so far is talky.io.  It's end to
end secure, based on WebRTC, supports small groups, and supports
Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and iOS.  Anyone with Linux on bare metal want
to try this?  You'd have to have a Linux-friendly webcam and give
permission to the browser for it to use your webcam.  If you want to try
it virtually, you would have to pass the webcam thru to the guest OS.

> Any good open source heap management tool recommendations?

We used a very expensive commercial tool back in the day and I'm not
sure it's even on the market any more.  I did a little research and it
looks like better heap managers are available for Java these days than
for C.  The most well known open source solution would be valgrind, but
that's not necessarily the best solution.

-Scott