sorry, haven't followed the whole thread, but here a couple of cool
resources:

Free online books by Zed Shaw, who wrote mongrel web server:
http://learncodethehardway.org/

interactive online coding exercises: codecademy.org




On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin@fries-biro.com> wrote:

> kfries@kfries-laptop:tmp$ cat ex2.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main (int argc, char **argv) {
>    int argcount = 1;
>   int mode;
>
>   while (argcount < argc) {
>      if (strcmp(argv[argcount], "-mode1") == 0) {
>          argcount++;
>         printf("Mode 1 Parameter = %s\n", argv[argcount++]);
>         mode = 1;
>      } else if (strcmp(argv[argcount], "-mode2") == 0) {
>         argcount++;
>         printf("Mode 2 Parameter = %s\n", argv[argcount++]);
>          mode = 2;
>      } else {
>         printf("Unknown command %s\n", argv[argcount]);
>          exit(1);
>      }
>   }
>
>   printf("End of program in mode %d\n", mode);
> }
>
>
> kfries@kfries-laptop:tmp$ gcc -o ex2 ex2.c
> kfries@kfries-laptop:tmp$ ./ex2 -mode1 hello
> Mode 1 Parameter = hello
> End of program in mode 1
> kfries@kfries-laptop:tmp$ ./ex2 -mode2 world
> Mode 2 Parameter = world
> End of program in mode 2
> kfries@kfries-laptop:tmp$ ./ex2 -mode3 foobar
> Unknown command -mode3
> kfries@kfries-laptop:tmp$
>
>
>
> Kevin Fries
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 15:48 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > int main (int argc, char * argv[])
> > {
> > int argcount=1; /* argv 1 is the first parameter */
> > int mode;
> > while(argcount < argc )
> >     {
> >     if(strcmp(argv[argcount],"-mode1") == 0)
> >         {
> >         argcount++;
> >         printf("mode 1 parameter = %s\n",argv[argcount ++]);
> >         mode =1;
> >         }
> >     else if (strcmp(argv[argcount],"-mode2") == 0)
> >         {
> >         argcount++;
> >         printf("mode 2 parameter = %s\n",argv[argcount ++]);
> >         mode =2;
> >         }
> >     else if(strcmp(argv[argcount],"-help") == 0)
> >         {
> >         argcount++;
> >         printf("Help mode\n");
> >         }
> >     else
> >         {
> >         printf("unknown command %s\n",argv[argcount]);
> >         exit(1);
> >         }
> >     }
> > printf("end of program in mode %d\n",mode);
> > }
>
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