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schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) wrote:

>In article <4h2ruj$hh@solutions.solon.com>,
>Vincent Taijeron  <redleg1@foto.infi.net> wrote:
>>I was wondering what would be a good "newbie" project.  What was one of 
>>your first projects?  Looking for ideas.

>Vincent,

>My second program (after the canonical "hello, world\n" of course)
>was writing a formatter similar to UNIX's pr. That's a filter program that
>can add line numbers to listings, precede each page with a page header
>and footer, break up long lines etc. I learnt a whole bunch of
>basic techniques,

I don't recall if it was my second program, but it must have come
close after hello world:  I wanted to write a hexdump program (you
know:

0000  00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00    ........ 

).

Also very useful to learn basic techniques.


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