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Suggestions for first C project (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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I have always had a great deal of respect for C, and I would like to start writing in it. However, while I am skilled in other languages, I basically don't know any C off the top of my head.

I find that I learn better and faster by attempting projects, rather than working through a book ir taking a class. For example, to learn Perl, I am working on a basic disk image writer that's coming along nicely.

So, what do you think might be a good idea for my first C project?

EDIT: Zig is also something I'm interested in learning. Same question, different language.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

I'm totally with you on this.

C is a fantastic language for people who want to develop for existing C projects. But there are very few reasons to develop new software projects in C today. As such, for anyone learning C, the best first project would probably be whatever existing C project you want to work on.

Maybe the main exception to that is probably embedded systems stuff for microcontrollers and the like, but I don't know enough about that space to say whether that is even still the case or whether you'd be better off with something else.