The problem is that they are not qualified to test his skills and this "test" served no practical purpose.

Did he fail or what is the problem?

~

After he handed back his answers, he was told by the officer that they were wrong. He said he presumed he was required to provide "the Wikipedia definition" for the questions.

However, he was even more surprised a little later when the officer told him he was "free to go".

"Look, I am going to let you go, but you don't look convincing to me," said the officer, according to Mr Omin.

You don't get the point. You shouldn't even look at an intermediate C-code, for it is not for human eyes, only for the C-compiler.

I don't think YACC means what you think it means.

As for the project scaling, I'm using Nim for a pretty long time and for the most time it's quite enjoyable and productive experience.

If you want to know more, check out the official site, or this blog post.

Might want to look at Game Programming Patterns and Lazy Foo's SDL tutorials.

Depends on what is written in the language style guide. I have no problem setting my vim configs for each file type if needed.

Legacy software

Nim using strutils

import strutils
while true:
  var input = readLine stdin
  if input.len < 1: break
  for ch in input:
    if input.count(ch) == 1:
      echo ch
      break

Nim

while true:
  var input = readLine stdin
  if input.len < 1: break
  var once: seq[char] = @[]
  for ch in input:
    if once.contains ch: once.delete once.find ch
    else: once.add ch
  echo once[0]

What show is this?

I'm using vim with couple of plugins. It's good if you have time to figure it out.

First chapters of 21st Century C describe workflow in POSIX environment quite well.

So, what language you want to use? What tools or IDE you are used to?

P.S.: Cinnamon is GTK+ based, so you could start from there.

Recently I posted related article to /v/gamedev. May be it will be somewhat helpful to you.

discard statement in Nim.

Mac and Windows

Well, C++ is not exactly mandatory. Any language which have needed libraries will do.

Now, libraries — is what important. You surely will need some GUI library, and some media codecs too.

Python's indentation is wonderful, and I wish C and Java had it.

And that's why I fell in love with Nim right away.

It'll be helpful if you could post some terminal output log of what is happening.

Though this book is targeted at somewhat experienced coders, I highly recommend 21st Century C, 2nd Edition.

It's Nim for me.

Elegancy of python, merged with speed and portability of C, plus meta programming features. What else can I ask for?

You totally must watch Handmade Hero.

It's video stream of making game completely from scratch (c-style c++) targeted at beginners.