@w96k yup, it was just a fight against the compiler (in a super crappy ide so you don't even know where it all went wrong..), so by the end of the fight you just have all the joy lost and don't want anything to do with your ptogram anymore, which kinda kills the whole purpose
also, they were teaching us C detached from Unix which is a shame, but luckily we had a bit of interesting computer graphics stuff at the end.