c_koans

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