C- Advice

[Cmorriskuerten]

HI,

I learned C by reading a book (C in 21 days, Sams), no I just want to go on.
Some people gave me the advice to write a program like a text- editor, is that
a good desicion?

Thanks in advance,

Christopher

[Mark A. Odell]

cm************@aol.com (Cmorriskuerten) wrote in
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HI,

I learned C by reading a book (C in 21 days, Sams), no I just want to go
on. Some people gave me the advice to write a program like a text-
editor, is that a good desicion?

No. Write a file conversion utility or some sort of text parser.

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[Aggro]

Cmorriskuerten wrote:

HI,

I learned C by reading a book (C in 21 days, Sams), no I just want to go on.
Some people gave me the advice to write a program like a text- editor, is that
a good desicion?

I would recommend you to write a program of your like. If you think it
would be cool to make a text editor of your own, then go for it ;)

I personally enjoy making games. I have made a game almost with every
language I have learned. I think it makes learning fun. And when it is
fun to learn, you usually learn better.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Cmorriskuerten wrote:

HI,

I learned C by reading a book (C in 21 days, Sams),
Err...
no I just want to go on.
Some people gave me the advice to write a program like a text- editor, is that
a good desicion?

If I were you, I'd start by trying to make all the exercises in the K&R2.

Bruno

[Malcolm]

"Cmorriskuerten" <cm************@aol.com> wrote in message

I learned C by reading a book (C in 21 days, Sams), no I just want to > go on. Some people gave me the advice to write a program like a text- editor, > is that a good desicion?

Learning the syntax of a language and its support functions is generally the
easy part. You then need to practise by writing real programs.

The choice of what program to write depends on the platform, your interests,
and your level of skill. For instance a simple text editor on a
character-mapped system, where you provided with a function like printat(x,
y, ch) for writing to the screen, would be quite easy to write. Trying to do
the same thing under Windows would be a much taller order.

Generally I think that graphical programs are best because you get an
immediate visual fix on any errors. However this does mean learning
something beyond the C run-time library.

[Cmorriskuerten]

>No. Write a file conversion utility or some sort of text parser.

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What do u mean by a conversion utility, a programm that converts files in
different types of files?

[Cmorriskuerten]

W´hat do u mean by "Err"? Isn't that a good book, or what?

Chris

[Mark A. Odell]

cm************@aol.com (Cmorriskuerten) wrote in
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No. Write a file conversion utility or some sort of text parser.

What do u mean by a conversion utility, a programm that converts files
in different types of files?

Yes. Convert a .jpg to .gif or something like that.

Or, far simpler, write a text parser that generates a bunch of #defines,
enums, and characters strings from a list file, e.g.

// Input, apple.str, file to my new stringer program.
[elements]
foo
bar
baz
fub

[enum]
1 // Want enum version of 'elements'
bubs

[define]
0 // Don't want #define versions

[string]
1 // Want strings
bubStrings

// EOF
usage: stringer apple.str -o apple.h

output:
// apple.h
enum bubs
{
foo,
bar,
baz,
fub
};

const char *bubStrings[] =
{
"foo",
"bar",
"baz",
"fub"
};

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