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    Project ideas

    Please i am a first year student and i have just finished my first semester in software engineering. I am to create a project using the C programming language only since it is the only language i have been taught and ideas please i use linux and gcc compiler

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    Quote Originally Posted by acho.arnold View Post
    Please i am a first year student and i have just finished my first semester in software engineering. I am to create a project using the C programming language only since it is the only language i have been taught and ideas please i use linux and gcc compiler
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    Perhaps you can find some ideas from the posts on the contest board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jwroblewski44 View Post
    The above is "Lab 1: The Game of Life (based on John Conway idea)"
    "...a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are,in short, a perfect match.." Bill Bryson

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    The above is "Lab 1: The Game of Life (based on John Conway idea)"
    Yup!

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    more ideas please

    Please all the ideas so far are on c++ programming but i have no idea on how to program on c++ please i need more ideas on c projects

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    Yup!

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    Please all the ideas so far are on c++ programming but i have no idea on how to program on c++ please i need more ideas on c projects
    Hrrmmmm. Actually, the lab I posted is from an opencoursework.MIT course named "Practical Programming in C"

    But. The fact is, the lab I provided can/will be implemented in any language you so choose.

    FYI.

    Here is a link to a 'zip' file containing the supplied files for the lab.

    http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrica...labs/lab01.zip

    Just curious, what school are you a first-year student in software engineering... at?
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    I'll post what I PM'd you here for everyone else's sake.

    What makes you think that the problem I posted could only be solved in C++ and not C?

    The class I got that problem from is a class called "Practical Programming in C", not C++.

    The problem does assume you have some basic concepts already understood ( conditional statements, looping, arrays, and so on ).

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    I am in the university of Buea in Cameroon. why ask though? I believe this university does not teach adequately so please it you could sugest a site which i can use to obtain lecture notes and course outlines on my degree programm i will be very grateful. Thanks
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    I am in the university of Buea in Cameroon. why ask though? I believe this university does not teach adequately
    That's exactly why I asked.

    It can be hard to get into a school that teaches a high-quality CS or software engineering program. The best thing you can do is to augment your studies with personal ones, as I'm sure many people on this site are doing. The place I got that lab from is a great wealth of knowledge. It is a free, open course offered by MIT, and is actually one of many courses offered. Take some time looking around that site, you won't regret it.

    Also, if you truly want to be a skillful writer of C programs, obtain a hard or soft copy of, "K & R: The C Programming Language". It is a book written by the creators of the language and will take you on a journey full of challenges that will make you a better programmer ( hopefully ).

    As to the original post ( OP ), have you chosen a project yet?

    I'm curious as to what the requirements for the assignment are?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jwroblewski44 View Post

    As to the original post ( OP ), have you chosen a project yet?
    Thanks a lot i havent chosed a project yet but i think i will just write either a bus management softtware or something related to it. I will surely get the Book today hopefully and about ocw.mit.edu, i have visited the site once or twice but my problem about it is that it contains too many lectures and i am confused with which one to actually pick and study. Thanks all the same you have been of great help to me.

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    Bus management? That's cool. If you want my opinion, I suggest a text-based RPG interpreter.
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    Good luck, friend.

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    I got curious. By "bus management", did you mean you are going to try to emulate something like this?
    System Management Bus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Or are you managing buses as in school buses?

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