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The Sololearn 'exercises'
I called the Sololearn snippets 'exercises', but in fact these snippets were used in the Sololearn course to explain C concepts. I diligently copied all of these, indeed as a form of exercise, but I reckon most students do not do this since it is not demanded for completing the course. There were also a lot of, what they call, 'exercises' that one has to complete to obtain the introduction certificate and I did them successfully, since I got the certificate without cheating. But these were all fragments of programs, not full programs, hence I do not find it useful to post them. To me programs are a form of art, and a program is only a program if it is complete and can be ran without error. Now, in the books that I am going to use to continue my quest for mastery there will often be assignments and those ae really programs that I have to write from scratch to produce certain outputs, and that will be real exercises.
I concluded that courses like Sololearn are for pussies that fear self-directed learning (which I was one of :)) and that era is now over. I feel the self-confidence, the will and the passion to become a self-learned master-sorcerer of C and with C of all programming, since C is the mother and King of nearly all contemporary languages....
Manually written and compiled
I also stated that I manually wrote and compiled all the programs I wrote up til now. Well this is not entirely true. It is true in regards to those that I wrote with MS-DOS editor, since I compiled those with GNU GCC, the terminal headless C/C++ compiler of the GNU project. With 'manually' I mean that I installed GCC on WIndows XP and wrote the commands in the Windows XP terminal to make GCC compile the c files that I wrote in the text editor.. In case of TURBO C, since this is an IDE, I write the program in it's text GUI and the program does the compiling and it is done by the internal TURBO C compiler, so I would not call this 'manual'. Compiling means that an executable human non-readable machine language file is created based on a higher level, human readable, C file.
Okay this was it.
Have a nice day!
