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[Panquesito7]

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[LoopGlitch26]

Hello! What're some good places to contribute in C language repository as a starter?

[Panquesito7]

I would recommend this repository: mostly all codes have documentation and refined code. You can easily learn from these codes and master your knowledge in C. You can also check out the Learn to code collection at GitHub. 🙂

[aracnoid149]

in dictionary.h and dictionary.c, what is the purpose of having MAXELEMENTS set to 1000?

[rawhuul]

Look here, it's used to declare elements which is an array of size MAXELEMENTS carrying void *. This way one can forget that elements is array of some numerical size, rather remember it as array of MAXELEMENTS size, you can see here, rather than using numerical value, using macro save us in future by just changing value in one place, not everywhere it's used. It's simple technique used more often in projects, it's a pre-processor which replace it's occurence to it's value at compile time.

[uncodemy14]

There are many open-source repositories written in C language that you can contribute to as a starter. Here are a few suggestions:

GNU Core Utilities: It's a collection of essential UNIX utilities, such as ls, cp, mv, etc. that are commonly found on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. You can contribute to this project by fixing bugs, implementing new features, and improving performance.

Libgit2: It's a cross-platform, linkable library for Git that you can use in your own projects. You can contribute to this project by improving documentation, fixing bugs, and adding new features.

SQLite: It's a lightweight, embeddable SQL database engine that is widely used in many applications. You can contribute to this project by improving performance, adding new features, and fixing bugs.

FFmpeg: It's a cross-platform multimedia framework that can encode, decode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play audio and video files. You can contribute to this project by improving codecs, adding new filters, and fixing bugs.

Redis: It's an in-memory data structure store that is used as a database, cache, and message broker. You can contribute to this project by improving performance, adding new data structures, and fixing bugs.