I can imagine plenty of people responding with the immediate suggestion of eclipse, however eclipse also uses a decent amout of recources probably due to the fact it IS programmed in java (I...

I don't disagree with you....C is a much more powerful and useful language, however I just feel like someone starting with C is going in a little over their head at first, as near everything (useful)...

Welcome! To be honest.....if this is going to be your first TRUE programming language (HTML and web-dev aside), I might start with Visual Basic or C#. This is just a personal recommendation but I...

/**************************
* cgilib.h *
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typedef char *string;
typedef struct
{
string fieldName;
string value;
}oneField;
struct element {

Well, "string" is actually an object type of the System.String class. So if you omit "using System" from your program, this will not compile:


String a = "Hello World";


Whereas this line...

i believe your missing a close bracket "}" from your initial if block