Is C dull?

Hi, I havent tried programming in years, the last time i tried to learn was with turbo pascal. I remember the lessons were like making flashing backgrounds and changing text and background colours and making beeps with different pitches and stuff like that. So far all the tutorials on c I have found been concerned with text and numbers, can c do stuff with sound and colour as well and are there any tutorials for it or is that what direct x is for?

The only thing your lessons taught you was how to change the colour and do stuff like this?
...just curious..

It's OS dependent.
Try this (it works on my linux console)

Code:

#define FORE_BLACK 30
#define FORE_RED 31
#define FORE_GREEN 32
#define FORE_YELLOW 33
#define FORE_BLUE 34
#define FORE_MAGENTA 35
#define FORE_CYAN 36
#define FORE_WHITE 37

#define BACK_BLACK 40
#define BACK_RED 41
#define BACK_GREEN 42
#define BACK_YELLOW 43
#define BACK_BLUE 44
#define BACK_MAGENTA 45
#define BACK_CYAN 46
#define BACK_WHITE 47

static int textc=FORE_WHITE;

void textcolor(int col)
{
  printf("\033[1;%dm",col);
  textc=col;
}

void backcolor(int col)
{
  printf("\033[1;%d;%dm",textc,col);
}

// how to set text attribute such as blinking or inverse?

  printf("\033[0m normal \033[0m\n");
  printf("\033[5m blinking normal \033[0m\n");
  printf("\033[7m inverse \033[0m\n");
  printf("\033[7m\033[5m blinking inverse \033[0m\n");
  printf("\033[2m suppress \033[0m\n");
  printf("\033[1m bold \033[0m\n");

Well it was back in highschool about 5 years ago, obviously we would have learnt other stuff but the only thing i remember clearly about it was a quiz game i wrote with flashing colours and beeps and stuff. I suppose they taught that first to try keep a room full of teenagers entertained without boring the sh$t out of them.

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About the code above, i'm on windows xp with msvc++ and that code has no effect
Thanks anyway, theres bound to be some info around somewhere

whats the point of just making beepy, flashing programs - i thought the idea of programming was to make useful aplications.
If you havnt programmes for years, i dont recommend going straight for directX, go for vb to ease you bac in, then winapi, then shift to DX

Thanks for the advice iain, theres no point to the programs except for learning purposes, whats the point of hello world?
I was just curious how c managed graphics and sound

Hello world exists to teach you concepts.

C/C++ handle graphics and sound through the use of APIs. Common ones (around here) include Allegro, SDL, WinAPI, DirectX, and OpenGL.