0x11. C - printf

ALX School First Group Project

A custom C printf function made by Akor Sunday and Chy Ameh

Goals

• To write our own printf function in C.
• The printf function is capable of printing with the %d, %c, %s, and %% specifiers to standard output.
• The print function should return the number of characters printed (excluding the null byte at the end of strings). We were not asked to handle flag characters, field width, precision, or length.

Concepts

• Group Projects
• Pair Programming - How To
• Flowcharts
• Technical Writing

Resources

Read or watch:

• Secrets of printf
• Group Projects concept page (Don’t forget to read this)
• Flowcharts concept page
• man or help: printf (3)

Authorized functions and macros

• write (man 2 write) malloc (man 3 malloc) free (man 3 free) va_start (man 3 va_start) va_end (man 3 va_end) va_copy (man 3 va_copy) va_arg (man 3 va_arg)

Authors

Akor Sunday & Chy Ameh