You just graduated, and you want to write something you feel is worthwhile, understandable. You want to write it in a language that has "staying power", unders

You just graduated, and you want to write something you feel is worthwhile, understandable. You want to write it in a language that has "staying power", understandable. You will not learn to code C (or any other language) by writing a library out of whole cloth. Write a small program (in any language) that fixes a problem that you have with computers. Then, find out what you did wrong with that program. Fix it. Then, profile it. Figure out what your program is spending time on, and make that time more efficient, Refactor that code, and profile it again. Realize that you are not constrained by hardware, and your JIT interpreter is missing some obvious optimizations. If you can call that, then you shouldn't worry about getting a job. ( ps. C and C++ are different things. C++ is not the next step after C. Be wary of positions that say they are the same. )