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I have a fair understanding of low level c programming but i want to do something practical. Any project ideas based on Low level input output and the Unix system interface in general?

[dargueta]

That's a really broad topic. Do you have any preferences? You could write your own toy OS. (Though that'd require knowledge of assembly language.)

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Played around with the idea once. Motivation to finish that not so small project was the problem. Am looking at something that i can finish within a month or so. Ideas that will really challenge you skill (outside of building an O.S) are scarce.
An as far as building the O.S is concerned i am still looking for a good book. And the tutorials and Articles are sometimes not very helpful when you run into problems.

[dargueta]

Maybe writing a device driver for Windows, that's a challenge. Doesn't even have to be for a real device - you could make up your own bare-minimum file system* and write a driver for that.

*There's a file system, forget the name, that's essentially a linked list with no fragmentation allowed. This'd be pretty easy to implement, I think. FAT16 is also relatively simple.

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What about a text editor with support for C code, and maybe some C++ (still learning C++)?

[dargueta]

This is a good one. You can install highlighter rules for other languages as well. If you're using Linux, try SciTE. Better yet, use Code::Blocks and manage your entire project.

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I think i will give it a try. But wait, if I'm using C alone then I would have to build the GUI in C. Never wrote C GUI :scared::scared:

[dargueta]

Oh, you want to create your own? That's completely different, nor is it low-level (unless you're doing a real-mode editor?)

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Sigh...guess i'd better keep looking.

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For a very long time i have been interested i something called a web crawler (this stuff really holds my attention). Thoughts?