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[Merlin]

Well I can't speak for everywhere, but when I did that C programming class at TESU, we turned in literally dozens of programs over the course of the term. I mean nothing crazy complicated, but they definitely made you do them.

I went through Study.com's C programming course afterwards, just to compare, and it wasn't anything near the same level of programming in terms of writing them. It would show you bits of code and ask about them, but not ask you to write much. I just don't think you could learn it that way, even to the low level that I learned it from the course I took. You basically have to just sit there for hours and write programs and run them and then debug them, over and over. It's very tedious but it just is what it is.

I'm planning to do a C+ or C++ course eventually and I hope some of my C learning carries over.

I also took the Study.com C course, and that only requires a single program to be written for a grade. They do provide a coding assignment at the end of each chapter as well, but those aren't graded so I suspect people won't do them. If they don't, I suspect people will find the final programming project challenging.

C++ is an extension to C, so a lot of the core will carry over. There will be some unlearning as well since the object-oriented approach requires a slightly different mentality than traditional C programming, but it should be an easy transition. Once you know C & C++, its also easy to transition over to other C++ inspired languages, like Java, Objective-C, and even C#.

The Straighterline C++ course isn't too bad. It has several programming assignments. Nothing too complicated, but enough to get your feet wet on the coding side.