/c_koans

C Koans

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c_koans

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A kōan 公案 (pinyin: gōng'àn) is a story, question, or statement, which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice.

Inspired by ruby koans you may learn the syntax and practices of C through a series of lessons in the form of Unit tests. These preprepared tests are all failing, by going through each one and repairing them to make them pass you will learn a small component of the C programming language.

The test are written in the Criterion unit testing library.

How to run

On Linux/OSX:

  1. Install Criterion
  2. run make clean all
  3. run bin/c_koans
  4. Start fixing!

On Windows:

  1. Get a Linux command line (Cygwin, Windows Linux Subsystem, or whichever you prefer)
  2. Follow the Linux/OSX instructions!

Sections

Inside src/ you will find a file for each of the following topics in C:

  • Basics
  • Pointers
  • Functions
  • Arrays
  • Strings
  • The Preprocessor
  • Control Statements
  • Structs
  • Dataclasses
  • I/O
  • Malloc
  • Linked List Project

The recommended order for fixing the tests is:

  • about_basics.c
  • about_control_statements.c
  • about_functions.c
  • about_pointers.c
  • about_malloc.c
  • about_arrays.c
  • about_strings.c
  • about_structs.c
  • about_dataclasses.c
  • about_printing.c
  • about_io.c
  • about_linked_lists.c
  • about_preprocessor.c