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Somewhat unrelated but I've always wanted ask: What types of small projects can a beginner start to develop a better understanding of C ? (Beyond basic syntax,

by zabana 9y ago

Somewhat unrelated but I've always wanted ask: What types of small projects can a beginner start to develop a better understanding of C ? (Beyond basic syntax, something that would actually make use of memory allocation, pointers etc)

AlphaSite 9y ago
Creating a small UFS implementation (on top of your file system, rather than as a raw disk is probably easier) in C is a nice fun exercise.
- zabana 9y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation ! Sounds indeed like a fun thing to do.
yeukhon 9y ago
A small kernel. I think it’s always good to start with implementing data structure and algorithms... If you want C++, try help out Firefox’s codebase. I did and it was a very rewarding experience. (Linux kernel project is hmm... just harder to get involved IMO).
- zabana 9y ago
  Ha ! Yeah I'm not competent enough yet to start this kind of project. It does seem really fun though
  - Hendrikto 9y ago
    Yeah... the suggestions here are all pretty cool but not for beginners. I‘d suggest a simple Sudoku solver as a beginner project :)
server_bot 9y ago
The best guided project/intro I've seen for complete beginners is Daniel Holden's "Build Your Own Lisp". It's a free online book that walks you through writing a Lisp interpreter (something worthwhile even for experienced C programmers!): http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/