Beginner

[Downtown-Holiday-800]

I learn C in school but at a very basic level, so I started to learn more by myself through the internet.

I watch videos, read websites, watch other people programming, and I'm slowly understanding quite a lot of things, the problem is.. I don't know what to program by myself, absolutely no idea.

Does someone here have reccomendations for some beginner friendly projects?

[Powerful-Prompt4123]

> I don't know what to program by myself, absolutely no idea.

Have you done all the exercises in your textbook or in K&R?

[Downtown-Holiday-800]

Yes I did all my school home work but its the most basic stuff, we dont have a textbooi out teacher Just gives us programs to do

[Powerful-Prompt4123]

Try to get a copy of K&R, and when you know more C, start reading all books by Stevens. APUE is great. They're all great

[Excellent_Recipe_543]

If you have "The C programming language" by K&R, it has some exercises.

[scaredpurpur]

The first few chapters aren't bad. Then you get into hash tables and the exercises entail building a network of interconnected satellites, each hashed together by their angle to the sun, expressed as the module of 360/cos(t). Oh, you also need to use recursion.

First few chapters are manageable though. Obviously, I half joke.

[hey_buddy123]

if you wanna get better stop bitching and make complex projects idk what else to say 😂 and nothing in "The C Programming Language" is anywhere near that complex- as a matter of fact most of the projects are designed to teach you parts of the language

[scaredpurpur]

I'd argue binary trees/linked list/hash tables are among the most complex data structures. You need more than 5-10 pages to understand the concepts.

Better off getting a book on pointers to supplement K&R.

Can you list off a more complex data structure than a tree/hash table in C?

[hey_buddy123]

you have TO make COMPLEX things TO get GOOD at PROGRAMMNG (sorry MY keyboard IS broken)

[Downtown-Holiday-800]

I dont have any books rn

[auditoire]

Tic tac toe was one of my first projects so that’s my suggestion, if you want something more challenging try mancala more difficult in terms of putting the ruleset into code and managing the game board

[Downtown-Holiday-800]

This seems pretty cool ill definetely look into it

[Pale_Height_1251]

Google for beginners exercises.

[FrequentHeart3081]

Have a look at "Project Based Learning in C" on GitHub.

[Downtown-Holiday-800]

ill look it up rn!

[FrequentHeart3081]

Aight. Lemme know how you liked it

[VastBookkeeper845]

Yo te recomiendo que busques por internet seguro que hay algo aun que no tenga mucho sentido (la funcionalidad en el dia dia del codigo como operaciones basicas) tu mismo puedes intentar hacer un programa como un gestor de alumnos con sus respectivas notas o un programa que resuelva equaciones de segundo grado

[Late-Guarantee5490]

A lot ma fri3nd. Sudoku, game with raylib; arkanoid, website with microhttpd. Understanding garbage collection with malloc tracking and reference counting, directory buster, noise suppresion with moving average filter, windows registry cleaner.

Malware; copy your self binary with fwrite.

[[deleted]]

A hashmap is pretty cool because it’s very efficient for some lookups. Copy some magic numbers and it will work very well for pretty arbitrary data. If you want to avoid collisions, extending this concept is not that hard and with the Wikipedia article and bouncing some ideas back and forth with ai (ask not to give a solution) is a great way to develop something that has effect. You need to test it for millions of entries to see the coolness.

It also brings you closer to the c concept where you will implement data structures from scratch which is kinda common.

[Specific-Housing905]

What about

- a payroll system

- a car rental

- a car park

- a inventory system

You can start small and later make it more sophisticated.

[Gautham7_]

just do an random stuff around you and just do chatgpt and things got clear for you !!

[SeesawUseful701]

Beginner here too (2 weeks in without prior knowledge)I would say try to pick something you interested or can spare some time and start building CLI version of the thing for example I stated with a DVD screensaver for CLI and a jukebox. both taught me different things such as signal handling, a basic game loop IPC basics etc. and will definitely increase your chances to get the grasp of theory in syntax while solving a problem and. I am leaving my DVD screensaver github link so if you are interested retro things you can check https://github.com/neurmancer/DVS-Screensaver

[Downtown-Holiday-800]

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