Hello PW,
25 Feb 98, Postal Willie of 1:106/7315 wrote to All
 PW> I've read a whole lot of books about C and C++ but I've
 PW> never actually finished a program.  Any suggestions?
Well, you didn't gave us much to go on, but...
wasn't in all those books you read not a single example or program source, 
that had you itching to add some more functionality, or even expand to meet 
some of your needs?
I read in an answer you gave to someones else reply you would like to write 
games, but be aware that if you're talking graphics and such this is probably 
one of the more difficult area's to conquer. 
IHMO you should start of with rather simple utilities, that you can use when 
busy with your computer. That way you also get a frontline seat as things 
don't behave as you thought. Don't think, oh well, someone wrote that utility 
already so why bother, write your own, and find out what a user needs and 
suspects. Reinventing the wheel in this case isn't bad.
You didn't tell what OS you've in mind or using, but presuming Dos, you could 
start with a filefind utility to lokate certain files on your HD, or a print 
utility that can print your homegrown sources nicely formatted to a printer, 
or, if you really, really want games, try a simple textmode adventure or 
Conway's game of life.
Hope I gave you some ideas... ;-))
Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,
       Jan
email:bijster@worldonline.nl
http://home.worldonline.nl/~bijster
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