r/cpp_questions • u/Ganesh10LM • 6d ago

OPEN System programming

I am starting to learn system programming(c++). As a beginner please recommend me the best project to work with so that it will force me to go on the depth as well as for the strong portfolio?

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u/YogurtclosetThen6260 6d ago

A great project is literally do any, and I mean any, large scale pipeline project, and then optimize performance using systems techniques. For instance I'm working on a Huffman data compressor and I've reduced end to end latency from 800 ms to 350 ms.

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u/Ganesh10LM 5d ago

Are you doing it in c++ ?

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u/burlingk 5d ago

The reason this one is getting downvoted is that:

  1. You can do almost any project in any language, so it doesn't matter what language they are doing it in.

  2. It comes across as demanding/needy.

They gave advice and you responded with a demanding question that had no real meaning in context.

and:

  1. You need to figure out what kind of project YOU want to do and do it. You can ask for advice along the way, but you need to put some work into it.

and:

  1. GOOGLE. No question should ever be posed on ANY forum until you at least do the minimum, and the minimum is to plug your question into a search engine. This has been basically rule number one or two of web forums since the '90s.