c-playground

📚 Learning and exploring the C programming language.

C is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)

Overview

I've been avoiding re-learning C since I learned it briefly in college. I need to learn at least a bit. This project is me doing that.

NOTE: This project was developed on macOS. It is for my own personal use.

Standalone subprojects

This repository illustrates different concepts, patterns and examples via standalone subprojects. Each subproject is completely independent of the others and do not depend on the root project. This standalone subproject constraint forces the subprojects to be complete and maximizes the reader's chances of successfully running, understanding, and re-using the code.

The subprojects include:

simple/

This is a "hello world"-style program for experienced programmers who are new to C.

See the README in simple/.

cmake-with-external-library/

An example C project that uses CMake and consumes an external library.

See the README in cmake-with-external-library/.

Wish List

General clean-ups, TODOs and things I wish to implement for this project:

• DONE Create a subproject that uses a Makefile to build the project. I only ever wanted to execute clang commands directly in my start project (simple/) but now I want to do it the faster way. I think I'm going to use CMake and consume the popular CRoaring bitmap library.