Computer Science

Creating and Killing Child Processes in C

Mia Combeau
C | Computer science

In order to execute another program within ours or to execute part of our program simultaneously, it can often be very useful to create child processes.

The Difference Between a Terminal, a Console and a Shell

Diving deeper into the computer science world, we often come across the terms “terminal”, “console” and “shell”, which seem to be used more or less interchangeably.

Binary 010: The Uses of Bit Shifting and Bitwise Operations

Computers only know one language: binary. Our many programming languages allow us to give instructions in a human-readable format, which are then translated into long sequences of 0s and 1s.

Binary 001: Counting and Calculating Like a Computer

As we all know, a computer only knows two things: 1s and 0s.