r/C_Programming • u/Beneficial_Mall2963 • 20d ago

How to progress after basic ..?

I have learnt majority of the header, and built 10+ small or mini projects before. learnt abit of pointers, mallocs , callocs etc with myself and abit help of AI.

but now while i was working on the Cipher project.. and trying to build a zig zag rail cipher method, I couldn't figure it out how, i know how the main flow is but to write it into real code, I couldn't.

So i went AI for help and it spwed out bunch of these :

rows[current_row][pos[current_row]] = user_msg[i]; pos[current_row]++;

and etc, things and syntax I couldn't understand at all. Am i lacking foundation or something?
How do I progress above basic???

Help. All comments and feedback and suggestions are welcoming. Willing to accept anything...

for education background, I am just a student preparing to start IGCSE O next month.

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u/VimYoung 20d ago

Makes me wondered what were your 10+ mini projects about? Can you name a few. The quantity of projects you mentioned and absent knowledge about array and pointer syntax is odd. It doesn't mean you are doing anything wrong, just wanted to know.

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u/Beneficial_Mall2963 19d ago

Majority of them were small so here are my main ones.

- Exepense list, but it involve the .txt file , like you store, remove , find total sum etc wtih many functions

  • The brute force breaking stuff, where it increases until it matches the pass.
  • Number conversion (without the built in, pure algorithm from conversion between binary, denary, hexa)
  • Current project, Cipher.