(Info) Test Your C Programming Strengths

[Kishor]

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Kishor

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

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Hm, let me try a few of those printf questions:

[Q001] - Undefined behavior, since main() must return an int.
[Q002] - Undefined behavior, since main() must return an int.
[Q003] - Undefined behavior, since main() must return an int.
[Q004] - Undefined behavior, since main() must return an int.
[Q005] - Undefined behavior, since main() must return an int.
[Q006] - Undefined behavior, since main() must return an int.

Oh well, this is getting boring. Back to work.

 

[Richard Bos]

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What is this, a test on how many errors you can find on the site? Sorry,
I gave up after I ran out of fingers.

Richard

 

[Eric Sosman]

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Anyone who asserts that

"Also, this [C] is the ONLY language which has survived
in the computing world."

is clearly not a smart guy. I looked no further.

(ObPuzzle: Find *two* errors in the quoted sentence.)

 

[Richard Heathfield]

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Please learn the language before attempting to teach it. Thank you.

 

[Keith Thompson]

What is this, a test on how many errors you can find on the site? Sorry,
I gave up after I ran out of fingers.

I'm not surprised that there were that many errors; I'm just surprised
that you had the patience to find 1024 of them.

 

[Darrell Grainger]

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Did anyone read the guestbook? He has hundreds of people who think his
site is great. Be afraid, be very afraid.

 

[Thomas Matthews]

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Kishor

Please get rid of those damn pop-up windows.
You state that the programs will compiler under Turbo C/C++ compiler.
Guess what! A lot has changed since then. Borland is now on
revision 6 or their compiler and version 5 can be downloaded for
free.

I gave up after the 4th invocation of undefined behavior.
I believe you need to get a copy of the ANSI specification
for the language.

On your "scanf" section. All the FAQs and advice in this newsgroup
specifically state to avoid the function. So, why do you put
it into your test?

Your web page is nuking my browser. Bad page, bad page.

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[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Did anyone read the guestbook? He has hundreds of people who think his
site is great. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Two words: sock puppets.

 

[Arthur J. O'Dwyer]

On your "scanf" section. All the FAQs and advice in this newsgroup
specifically state to avoid the function. So, why do you put
it into your test?

If "Kishor" actually knew C, 'scanf' would be a great thing to put
on a "test" or "FAQ" page. 'scanf' *can* be used safely, believe it
or not; sometimes it's even the most effective way to get things done.
Why else would it still be around? But it takes a bit of skill
to write 'scanf' code that always works properly.
That skill would be a great thing to test! You know, with questions
like

Write a program that parses a text file in format X and outputs
the values it finds in fields Y and Z.

for some values of X,Y,Z. Unfortunately, "Kishor" has filled his/her
page with garbage like

What does this program do?
scanf("Hello\'u my friends,%d%g%h%i%j@87kdf", &p);

that doesn't show any understanding of the language, the concepts,
or the proper discipline required to write really good code. And
that's just bad.
[I wouldn't be too "afraid, very afraid," about the guestbook
entries. Looks like personal friends of "Kishor," presumably also
in whatever beginning C course he/she is.]

-Arthur

 

[caroundw5h]

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[Richard Heathfield]

Doesnt' that site needs to be updated. They seem to still be using void
main().

No, not updated; just corrected. The "void main" construct has never been
correct C.

 

[Jack Klein]

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I disagree with what my esteemed colleague Richard Heathfield said, as
I am wont to do from time to time.

Please DON'T learn C and then try to teach it.

Please, PLEASE, learn C# instead and try to teach it in Microsoft
groups for that language, not here.

 

[Jack Klein]

Ah, yes, "void main()" which was part of standard C way back NEVER.

 

[CBFalconer]

Two words: sock puppets.

One word: myrmidons.

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Ah, yes, "void main()" which was part of standard C way back NEVER.

I have often wondered where not only newbies, but book authors, got the
idea that void main() was any form of C at all. As you and Richard
correctly say, void main() was never used in any form of standard C,
and it wasn't used in K&R C either. (They simply used main().) Have
those people invented it out of thin air and then started convincing
themselves it was standard C?

 

[Richard Bos]

I'm not surprised that there were that many errors; I'm just surprised
that you had the patience to find 1024 of them.

I wasn't counting; I was gnawing one off out of frustration with every
blunder I found.

Then, before posting, I grew them back on again. Sometimes I think I
must have lizard genes, or something.

Richard

 

[Leor Zolman]

I have often wondered where not only newbies, but book authors, got the
idea that void main() was any form of C at all. As you and Richard
correctly say, void main() was never used in any form of standard C,
and it wasn't used in K&R C either. (They simply used main().) Have
those people invented it out of thin air and then started convincing
themselves it was standard C?

Oh, c'mon...it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to see how
void main()
would have made a lot of sense at the time:

1. Using just
main()
defaults to returning int (of course, nowadays it should be made
explicit). What if you wanted to make sure everyone knew you were
_not_ returning an int, or anything else? There was no way to do it
before the void keyword was borrowed from C++, so it seemed like a
relief to finally have a way to express that when void was added to
the language.

2. While

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[Darrell Grainger]

I have often wondered where not only newbies, but book authors, got the
idea that void main() was any form of C at all. As you and Richard
correctly say, void main() was never used in any form of standard C,
and it wasn't used in K&R C either. (They simply used main().) Have
those people invented it out of thin air and then started convincing
themselves it was standard C?

Having taught fist year programming I can tell you were a number of my
students got the idea that "void main()" was acceptable...

If you see "main()" without a return type specified then there is NOTHING
in front of main so the return type is NOTHING, a.k.a. "void main()".

For someone who has never programmed it makes sense, i.e. it is a good
rationalization. Add to this instructors who do not correct the students
and these students grow up to become professional programmers who believe
"void main()" is equivalent to "main()".

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Oh, c'mon...it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to see how
void main()
would have made a lot of sense at the time:

1. Using just
main()
defaults to returning int (of course, nowadays it should be made
explicit). What if you wanted to make sure everyone knew you were
_not_ returning an int, or anything else? There was no way to do it
before the void keyword was borrowed from C++, so it seemed like a
relief to finally have a way to express that when void was added to
the language.

This does not answer the question. *WHY* would you want to make sure
everyone knew you were not returning an int? *WHY* would you not want
to return an int in the first place?

2. While

While what?

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