Ask HN: What small C projects would you recommend for beginners?

#1

Post by seanpackham » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

My friend is learning C (and some computer science), I've pointed him to "Learn C: Build Your Own Lisp" and some frequently shared online courses but I'd love to share a bunch of small (fun) C projects with him that do a good job at showcasing the language. For example Kilo from the creator of Redis https://github.com/antirez/kilo

Re: Ask HN: What small C projects would you recommend for beginners?

#2

Post by jjgreen » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

I find myself reusing components in several projects, then test & documentation is even more important of course. I formalised a layout for these components as "C99 sushi", there are a few here: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/c99-sushi/

Mostly maths stuff, possibly interesting?

Re: Ask HN: What small C projects would you recommend for beginners?

#3

Post by seanpackham » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

jjgreen wrote: post #2

I find myself reusing components in several projects, then test & documentation is even more important of course. I formalised a layout for these components as "C99 sushi", there are a few here: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/c99-sushi/ Mostly maths stuff, possibly interesting?

Thank you, I'll share it with him, your data structure examples will be useful.

Re: Ask HN: What small C projects would you recommend for beginners?

#4

Post by blodkorv » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

i recommend doing forum software with cgi. it's fun and challenging. After that there are plenty of stuff you can do with gtk.

over the years I have a bunch of small gtk c applications that ranges from mp3 players to rss readers.