One of my friends has recently graduated and is in a dilemma on which among the two offers to accept. An offer he has is from a multi-billion, multi-thousand-employees product MNC where he would be using C language and Unix at work that is about debugging one of the company products. The other offer is from a small EDA company where he would be using C++ and Windows as a developer of EDA tools for engineers. The smaller company has less than 50 people on roll. The CEO himself interviewed my friend and has suggested that the friend would have more opportunities to learn and grow in a smaller company like his one.
On the other hand, the big MNC's salary offer is more than twice that of the smaller company's.
Friend is in a dilemma and is seeking my advice. Which company should he join?
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
pointer pitfall
Some C pointer fundamentals manage to fox even seasoned programmers.
For example, what is wrong with the following piece of code:
func() {
char *c;
c = "this is a string.";
*c = 'T';
printf("%s", c);
}
The code tries to capitalize the first letter of the string. It looks correct at first glance, but is not. It might even compile without any error, but will throw out an error when run.
For example, what is wrong with the following piece of code:
func() {
char *c;
c = "this is a string.";
*c = 'T';
printf("%s", c);
}
The code tries to capitalize the first letter of the string. It looks correct at first glance, but is not. It might even compile without any error, but will throw out an error when run.
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