A simple program to do a second of CPU work and then exit. This is very simple but fun to play with.
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This really depends on what kind of job you want, really. Some will require a Bachelor’s and will not look at you without experience. Most will care about the experience over a degree, but your resume will need to be solid so expect to put the time you’d have put into school into projects. I … Read more
This is a very simple Hello World program in C. int main() { write(1, "Hello World\n", 14); }int main() { write(1, "Hello World\n", 14); } Counting how long a text string is. #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #define MSG "Hello Doctor, let’s get back to the TARDIS!" int main() { int g; g = strlen(MSG); if … Read more
The anticipated new game Cyberpunk 2077 has launched and it is not very good at all. There are severe performance issues and it is not very polished at all. That is what happens when developers release a trash game at the set date and then depend upon patches after the fact to fix various issues. … Read more
This is a nice example in C. This will append text to a file whenever it is run. This is the proper way to do this in this programming language. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { FILE *f; char … Read more
There are various tricks for programming on Linux. One useful trick is to open a file for reading with C. This is how to do this. The “r” option for fopen() will read the file into memory. #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { FILE *f; char buf[256]; f = fopen("/etc/hosts", "r"); if(f) … Read more
Some very useful code samples for any C programmer. These might give you some new ideas. Print the time and date with C. #include <time.h> // For time function (random seed). #include <stdio.h> // For extra functions. printf(). #include <stdlib.h> // For getenv(); #define format "The time and date is: %A %d %B %Y. … Read more
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How to define a string and print it out with the printf() function. #include <stdio.h> /* Defining a global string. */ #define hi "Hello Sire." int main(void) { /* Printing out the string. */ printf("%s\n", hi); return 0; }#include <stdio.h> /* Defining a global string. */ #define hi "Hello Sire." int … Read more
Here are some useful FizzBuzz programming examples in various programming languages. These might prove useful as code samples that could be expanded into a larger project or just for interests sake. Very useful if you wish to learn how to program, taking these programs apart and modifying them would be a lot of fun. In … Read more
http://gentoomen.org/tutorials/resources.html. The gentoomen.org resources page. Very good list of links to various tutorials and help pages. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/. The Advanced BASH scripting guide. ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/doc/book/vimbook-OPL.pdf. The VIM guideboook. http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html. 3000 useful guides to programming and Linux documentation and help pages. http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html. How to be a programmer. A short but comprehensive summary. http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index. Ubuntu resources page. Everything you … Read more
Opening a folder and listing the contents, and not listing certain files. This is the Perl code I was using on my very old Tripod.com website. opendir(DNAME, "$folder") || die "I cannot open the requested directory $folder \n $!"; @dirfiles2 = readdir (DNAME); @dirfiles2 = sort(@dirfiles2); foreach $x2 (@dirfiles2) { if ($x2 eq ".") { … Read more
This programming trick is pretty cool, you can run the /bin/sh shell with a C program. The execve() function is useful for running a command within a C program and passing arguments to it, but I have replaced the arguments with NULL instead, that is what you put when you do not need arguments. #include … Read more
A very obfuscated C program. typedef unsigned char t;t*F="%c",l[]="|\\/=_ \n](.\0(),*(.(=(}*.)[[*.",N=’\n’,* r;typedef(*H)();extern H Ar;Q(a){return(a|-a)>>31;}H S(c,a){return(H)(a&~c|(int )Ar&c);}extern t*ist;V(t*u){*u^=*u&2^(*u>>7)*185;}Z(t*u,t n){*u-=n;}e(t c,H h){ R(h,Q(* r^c));} I(){r=l +7-4*Q( getchar ()^*l); }R(H h, int c){Ar=S (c,h);- main() ;}P(){r ++;}z() { O(&N);} O(t*c){ printf( F,+*c); }T(){r= "This is not a function\n" ;}w(U){ U=Z(r,8 ); r-=~Q(* r/8-4); return 0; }M(){r= ist-68; } h(){t … Read more
This code snippet will run the date command. The execl() function is very useful for executing a command within your C program.You replace the NULL identifiers with any extra arguments to pass to the program. I prefer this over the system() function. #include <unistd.h> int main(void) { execl("/bin/date", "%c", NULL, NULL, NULL); return … Read more
This is a sample C program showing how to define a function as well as accepting input from the command-line. Hopefully this is useful for someone who is writing a console application for Linux or UNIX. #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *name; name = argv[1]; if … Read more
int main() { write(1, "Hello world.\n", 14); return 0; }int main() { write(1, "Hello world.\n", 14); return 0; } Can you think of any simpler C example?
My installation of FreeBSD 8.2 is still going very well indeed, I am have installed Eterm, so that I can set a wallpaper with Esetroot and I am playing mp3 music right now with xmms whilst I write this post. The bug in Linux where the headphone audio is muted and inaudible on a laptop … Read more