My First C Program

What this project was made for

Intention of this project was learning programming in the C language.

Where this program comes from

The program is a sample published in c't, a german computer journal, but I will expand it depending on my needs.
The original source can be found in github too

What to expect

• nice little quiz
• experience in C programming
• some insights to Windows memory management
• overall experience in Visualstudio Code and Github

What I have done till now

• typed in source code, formated in "my way"
• made modifications
  • character hints not dependend on guessing word of wordlist
  • "#" for fast exit
  • getopt.c integration for parsing commandline parameters
  • more commandline parameters (try parameter -h for help)

What will come

• Details for pointers
• Output regarding Windows memory management (?)
• ... tbd ...

What you don't need to compile

• .gitinore = exclusion list for directories and files not to process with git
• *.asm = Assembler language listings generated by C-Compiler - just to show what the CPU does with your C program ;-)
• .vscode = Folder with Visualstudio Code definitions for building (compiling), launching and debugging this project in Windows
  • launch.json = Enables Visualstudio Code to compile this project without executing VSC from VS developer command prompt
  • tasks.json = Compiles all .c programms in this folder at once (Ctrl-Shift-B to build the .exe)

What may help getting noble, wise and brave

• https://www.c-howto.de/tutorial/ (language overview)
• http://c-buch.sommergut.de/index.shtml (deep dive)