Interesting programming projects for C?

[weboweb]

Hi folks,

Recently I've been studying up on C (and eventually C++) to take a break from high level languages.

I'd like to hear what you would suggest as a worthwhile programming challenge for a beginner in C. I've written an old console emulator in a higher level language, and was thinking of porting it down to C, however this is a bit of a leap for someone who has written little more than "Hello, World!" in this language.

Any suggestions for a project that would really take advantage of C and be accessible to a beginner (with some aptitude for programming)?

Thanks for your input.

[codemode]

Well if you want to keep it fairly simple you could make a DOS/Win32/Linux term mode program, such as a simple command line utility. How about something similar to the "more" utility that dumps the contents of a text file to the screen?

I started that way, just looking at simple DOS commands and writing my own versions of them using C.

[WingedPanther]

I would start by getting a book on C and working through the excercises. Once you've done that, writing a console emulator should be pretty easy.

[RavenE]

Yeah, even have a look on google, there is a few goodwebsites for console emulators

[MeTh0Dz]

An ARP Poisoner.

With custom packet build using raw sockets.