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What could I have done better?

This is my first real program, though it has gone through a few major revisions. Anyhow, I am sure that there is a lot I could have done better, cleaner or safer. Can anyone see anything I really ...
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Truthy assignments

I often argue with the voices about the correctness of having assignations within an if statement (or equivalent), meaning having this: if($thing = someFunction()){ //do stuff } Instead of this: ...
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Human (Imperfect) array (card) shuffle written in C

ok, so I've got this humanoid_shuffle I wrote in python... And I've been wanting to learn C so as an exercise I ported it to C, as this is my first venture into C and even the idea's of memory ...
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Is this C game code OK? Structures and bitfield flags with some macros to handle them

I wrote some C code for working with some data for a game, I wanted to know what do you think and what could I do to improve it, what should I change, etc. These are just some lines of the file, you ...
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Binary Multiplication in C

Question:Write an algorithm in C to do integer multiplication without using multiplication nor division operators. Could I get a critique of the doMultiplication function? I know the rest of the code ...
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Need some advice and feedback on my C code calling Bash functions

My intent is to use Bash functions defined in functions.sh in a C program. I am doing this so that I don't have to rewrite the Bash functionality again in C. I want to use one common library for ...
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Defensive programming in C

I wrote a function (get_last_word_of) that takes a C string and a destination buffer, and then copies the last word into the buffer. The code was originally C++, and was changed into C later. ...
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Opinion on My atof

I am looking for feedback on coding style. I know this function already exists, and I would never use my version over a well tested one. I am just practicing. Your feedback helps me understand the ...
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Possible improvements for this small C program?

I'm learning C and today I wrote a program that displays info about my hardware on ubuntu. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { char ch, file_name[25] = ...
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Request for review: Enhanced Concatenating Function

I would like to submit my enhanced concatenating function for your review. Originally, its' method signature is: char *concat (const *char1, const *char2); but after knowing that the calling code ...
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Hanoi Towers - need help with the code

I made an algorithm solving Hanoi Tower puzzles, for n disks and m pegs. It uses lists as pegs, each list's element contains disks array - {0, 0, 0} means the peg is empty, {1, 2, 0} means the peg ...