Thread: I can't think of a good project ...

Since the day i started to learn C , i've been making small projects in the end of each 2 or 3 chapters just to review the concepts. I also make projects when im away from C for a while and i need some refreshment.

Now it has been a long while since i made a program , and i need to move on to C++ too , so i thought i should work on a project that will hopefully let me recall everything i've learned (and maybe learn a thing or two) , but i couldn't think of any usefull console program.

I need a to make a program that :

1. .. would be usefull for anyone who is familiar with console windows. Not just a program for geeks.
   
2. ..requires the following :
   1. Linked lists ,stacks or queues.
   2. heavily rely on files and streams. (i.e : a program that deals with inputs from previous executions or analyse text files)
   3. Program parameters (argc & argv) (note : this one isn't really important)

What i know about C is what any basic C book would cover (not binary trees though). However , im willing to learn any standard function(s) the project might require.

Note that im not looking for a home-work-alike program. I need something REAL but not so complicated, so if you have any ideas please share them with me , It'll be much apprecited.

Nice idea , but im not willing to learn socket programming right now. I thought of this before but its a bit harder to do in a Windows platform because most of the tutorials i encountred were either easy but for *nix or for windows but with special and complicated functions\libs that might only work under a certian compiler. So i don't think im doing something that is windows\compiler based. (this made me want to learn sockets programming only on a platform with gcc)

besides.. port scanners wouldn't need data from external files (maybe rarely) , and i need to review streams too.

Thanks for replying Nessarose

Something which mimics this (to a degree of your choosing)
http://www.xtreefanpage.org/

You can have lots of fun with statistics, like the amount of space occupied by each directory, file type, whether backed up or not etc etc.

Only thing I can think of is some sort of file conversion or file manipulation program. Maybe a language translator or document converter from one format to another. Spell Checker maybe, maybe an audio mixer or sound effect generator.

xEarth & sand_man :
that would be a bit difficult for me and i'd need to learn loads of stuff about it.

manofsteel972 :
yup... file manipulation

Salem :
This seems like the perfect project !! but im afraid that i can only do simple tasks like renaming a file , allocating its size, removing it, reading and writing from\to a text file and thats all.

I've searched google and this site too but couldn't find something a bit advanced on this topic like how to :

- search directory(s) for given file(s).
- count the number of files in directory(s)
- find the total size of files in a directory.
- create new directories.
- that :

like the amount of space occupied by each directory, file type, whether backed up or not etc etc.

and so on...

i only found a thread here with Prelude showing a method for copying a file using DOS command (system() function) wich isn't really interesting because DOS will be doing all of the work for you...

so... will you guys point me to like a tutorial that illustrates how to accomplish the previous tasks in pure C? (without DOS commands)

or at least name some usefull file-related functions like 'remove()' and 'rename()' so i can study them and go on with my project.


Thanks for replying.

> i only found a thread
Scroll down to the end to see my posts then

And the FAQ for attributes and sizes
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1044780608
Also by me

sorry i think i didn't notice those

it looks a bit complicated at first glance but hopefully it'll be easier after i study it.

Thanks for helping everyone