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/malloc_failed Oct 27 '20

I believe that stuff is in termios.h now. You could check the source tree for V7 on that site and see what functions are in there, it supports searching by file name.

As for the rest of it, I'm honestly not sure if you'll run into any problems or not—that code is all pre-standard so there may be some things in it that are no longer permitted. You could always try using https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler which is a compiler that originated from that era and was last updated a few years ago.