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.
- Install Criterion
- run
make clean all - run
bin/c_koans - Start fixing!
- Get a Linux command line (Cygwin, Windows Linux Subsystem, or whichever you prefer)
- Follow the Linux/OSX instructions!
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