Alright, im slowly but surely trudging my way through learning C, I know I have a long way to go, since I have only now learned of how to properly use pointers and arrays(hehe, I told you I was new!), but when and what should I do as my first project? By when I mean how knowledeable at C would I have to be and by what I mean what is a good first project to do(not just simple programs like I have been doing). Thanks for all your help guys
This question is subject to a lot of things - what you consider a
"good project", you're level of knowledge and experience, your
own motivation. I like extensible projects - things that you can
work on and develop over a long period of time, adding features
along the way. An easy example would be a calculator program,
it can start out with just add, subtract, multiply and divide, and
over time expand into a full blown scientific type where you enter
a string representing the computation you want: (2*17) + ln3.02.
Maybe post some ideas of what you want to be able to do
No No's:
fflush (stdin); gets (); void main ();
Goodies:
Example of fgets (); The FAQ, C/C++ Reference
My Gear:
OS - Windows XP
IDE - MS Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
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Oh a calculator, I did want to do a complex physics calculator eventually (being able to derive as many variables as you could from a limited amount of data), and this could be a good start. Thanks for the idea Richie, anyone have any other ideas? I'd like to know what other people did as their first "big project", in which they put a lot of time and effort into in order to test their abilities, and at what level they did it.
Are you sure? A lot of people think they know how to use pointers until they realize they don't. I know I did. Maybe something to expand your skills? Maybe a simple one-table database project that uses dynamic memory allocation extensively. Once you have it working to where you can add/delete data, make it so you can sort the data by different fields.Originally Posted by Salgat
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
Oh no I can say for a fact that I dont even have any real experience with pointers, I'm in now way "knowing" of everything about it, but I did learn how to use them for the basic things like with structs and arrays, at the basic level. Im making sure not to be overconfident, itll be 10 years before I can say Im elite at programming C :P But ya, thats also a good idea.
