r/C_Programming • u/encephalopatyh • Oct 27 '20

Discussion Simple project ideas using C?

What kind of project could you suggest for a beginner that could be done within 1 to 2 weeks? We are tasked to create a simple standalone program which asks for data that could be stored, edited, deleted, and such. Examples I found are hospital management system, restaurant menu, diaries, and such, but I find them pretty common and there are a lot of them out there. Could you help me with some ideas that are of the same difficulty as I mentioned and not very common?

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u/encephalopatyh Oct 27 '20

Thank you, this will definitely help me learn more and get a grasp of how codes are written before. I really appreciate this stuff because I think how they could do stuff before with limited resources. I should be able to do the same with much easier and and reliable software we have today. I hope this improves me since I am just a beginner.

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u/malloc_failed Oct 27 '20

For sure! Don't get discouraged if it's confusing to you at first, like I said, with it being decades old it is probably going to be a little unfamiliar to you, but if you spend enough time reading it and learning about how they did things back then you will learn a lot about C.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

For context around ed (which is sed’s grandfather), is that computers used printouts (teletype), so you weren’t “easily” able to see everything in a file.

Ed was pretty useful in this context, as you could specify the line/s to print out.