I am a newb to the C programmming language how do I make it interesting?

Applications Programming
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I am a newb to the C programmming language how do I make it interesting?

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Try getting a purpose other than homework. Try to imagine something you do too often in your computer and use C to do it for you.

Alternatively try figuring out how Jack C. Louis and Robert E. Lee are doing that 3 year old tcp based service DoS which does not consume CPU/memory or bandwidth and works in every tcp stack implementation known to men. Then, create a C program of your own to also do that.

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try to create program of your command..
like ls or dir.
Get the file attribute to know, hidden or not.
Make game like chess..
do whatever u think at basic level ...
Write your own mspaint type application.
Make it fun

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take it slowely dont rush

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What would be the best compiler to start with ??
I am fairly familiar with visual studio and have done some windows programming but not sure how to get started on unix type systems.

Thanks
Zapper

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Anyone ???

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use g++ compiler for C++ syntax
use gcc compiler for C syntax

g++ & gcc included in Linux too...

g++ youCode.cpp -o compiledCode

-o the name of the compiled code.
compiledCode = any name you like