99 bottles of beer on the wall
printf("%d bottles of beer on the wall!\n", x);
printf("%d bottles of BEER!!\n", x);
printf("Take one down, pass it around --\n");
printf("%d bottles of beer on the wall!!\n", x);
printf("Do you want another beer?\n");
printf("\n\nPress Y for another, N to stop the madness:\n");
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Kindness reporter
Then Carrie at last turned to Matthew. "And what happened today for you, Bear?"
He finished chewing his dinner and had a sip of milk. Jordan and Victor giggled about some private joke. He spread his arms as if to stop traffic. "Everyone has to listen to me."
Once it got quiet, I said, "Yes?"
"I am the Kindness Reporter."
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A text adventure game for my kids
I pressed Ctrl-F10 to run it. The story is set in a haunted castle with many passages, bloodthirsty monsters at every turn and a healthy serving of skeletons, ghosts and large rats. The idea is to rescue a child monk who bears a remarkable resemblence to my five-year-old son.
"Cool. Which thing should I choose?"
"It's up to you," I said. "It's your game." Unfortunately, he chose an option which dropped him 40 feet in to a spike-filled pit where his body was feasted upon by rats and maggots.
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How to build a list of lists
A long list of items, which often begins simply enough, will become totally unwieldly. On scraps of paper it may be fine, but transfer this list to a web page, and it is about as clear and exciting as a cold bowl of plain spaghetti.
Of course, a little JavaScript could turn this in to several drop down lists, but what if scripting isn't an option? With XHTML and a little bit of CSS, the list can be transformed a navigable menu.
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Pointer to a string
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* pointers and strings, a love story...
/* this shows how a string can be displayed
/* by using pointers to the characters in the string
/* to dance through the array and display it's contents. */
int main()
{
/* declare a string */
char string[] = "The name of the band is Grateful Dead.";
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