Hey Syntax3rror,

First, well done for learning C. Now on to your bug...

while (1==1) : This is an infinite loop. The only reason it's not working is because of the return statement. The code is run only once and it breaks out of the loop.

So if I were to fix this, I would

1. Put back the fgets statement back in the while loop. This says keep looping until the pointer I receive is a NULL one, hence no string exists anymore. (1)

2. Since you now have your break condition (1), you can remove the return(0).


If you really like to use a low level language like C, consider using https://golang.org/. It's quite low level and has performance similar to Java, is compiled and makes programming web services much easier. I'm currently using it for my startup https://stylestation.co.

Cheers

V

It's been good. I'm a big fan of machine learning. I've been learning a tiny bit. But overall, it's kind of hard coupling my day job (Software Dev) with the two courses. How about yourself? DId y'all get your first lectures yet?

Nah, I'm currently signed up to Machine Learning (Week 3) and Functional Programming, which reminds me, I've an assignment due this evening!!

Oh and escape the variables in your query or better yet, use mysqli with prepared statements or even better yet, PDO. You don't want someone stealing your data, or worse, dropping your DB tables

I use PHP at work, as well as HTML (4 and 5) Javascript, CSS (2 and 3) and SQL as well. I've been learning some iPhone development for my own personal project, so I see a bit of Objective C in my future. I will be doing some Android development in the future, so I'll doing some Java dev too. As a side note, I know python as well, but I would recommend anyone really worth their salt to learn as many programming languages as they can due to the different paradigms they favour e.g.(Functional, OOP, Mathematical, Imperative).

Do you have "on duplicate" in your query? If you make the fields unique, you need to add in "<initial query>on duplicate $this = $that, $thisOtherThing = $thatOtherThing";