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Hello everybody. I know c good, but don't have any practice writing even little project (at least 1000 strings). Now i want to begin something but confused with project organization, how to organize folders, their names, where to locate makefiles and etc. Browsed many other open source projects to see some standard or convention. Nothing and in the internet couldn't not find any useful info. Please, i need your help. thanks.

You couldn't be more vague if you tried. What is it your asking exactly?

> I know c good, but don't have any practice writing even little project
Then you know nothing about C.
Memorising the syntax does not make you a programmer.

A program to read 1000 strings, and do a few basic operations (sort, search, print) doesn't need a project - it can be done comfortably in a few hundred lines in a single source file.

In projects i browsed were folders bin, doc, lib, src, include etc. In some projects makefile was in each folder. Confusing. I want to ask how to arrange files, how to name folders? Is there any standard or convention for future maintenence, as for example convention about variable naming in c?

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Originally Posted by Salem

> I know c good, but don't have any practice writing even little project
Then you know nothing about C.
Memorising the syntax does not make you a programmer.

A program to read 1000 strings, and do a few basic operations (sort, search, print) doesn't need a project - it can be done comfortably in a few hundred lines in a single source file.

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yeah, i wrote that kind of things. now i want to make a real program.

Tiny projects are a single source file.

Small projects are a handful of files in the same directory.

Medium sized projects might have a root directory and a few sub-dirs (1 level deep)

Very large projects are veritable forests of directories and sub-directories.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong but in my experience I have never seen a specific "standard" or custom when it comes to filenaming and filesystem structure. I think it is up to the project owner/manager to set a standard and then everyone follows that. I know Ubuntu and OpenOffice have their own standards and you are required to follow what they set up.

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Originally Posted by Salem

Tiny projects are a single source file.

Small projects are a handful of files in the same directory.

Medium sized projects might have a root directory and a few sub-dirs (1 level deep)

Very large projects are veritable forests of directories and sub-directories.

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thanks salem. it was very usefull.

i knew about the first 2. but my project would be medium sized. yeah it would be hard for project beginner. now you came to my question. how to call these sub-dirs and how to arrange files in these sub-dirs? is there any convention or standard?

at last found something:
c project file structure - Google Search
c project folder structure - Google Search

thanks to everybody for quick replies