Over the course of completing this coursework I have learnt how to consolidate many programming ideas into one project, in doing so I have learnt the importance of concise and clear programming and commenting. The coursework did prove to be difficult at first with so much scope but once a clear specification had been written it was clear to see that the coursework was achievable. The first task that was ultimately important to the success of the program was writing pseudo code which gave a clear idea of what had to be programmed. The first problem that occurred was during the phase of recognizing characters and strings, after spending an extended period of time on it, I used the programming sessions to review my code with peers and was shown a way that was very concise and simple way to carry out the function which greatly helped in developing the section of code mentioned. 

Difficulties where encountered however support from peers and mentors was helpful as well as being able to consult code in books and online that was helpful in creating a basis that could be applied to the given problem. The program was first written as one large function however to create a more efficient program it was made into functions, thus also using another programming construct. 

At the beginning of this project it was slightly daunting however breaking down the problems and using all available resources helped greatly making the project ultimately enjoyable and satisfying to complete, whilst learning more on file operations and manipulation of characters within them.  The graph was easily implemented although in my own opinion looked very impressive when run and gave the user a good visual of the statistics 

 It might be good for the budding programmer but it lacks any exciting content. A simple program that prints "Hello World" hardly gives you an indication of what a language can do. The expansion of the code could make it a little more interesting as well as challenging. It also takes 10 minutes to complete in its entirety (not filling the hour practical slot) 

The concept of hello world may seem good for the first time programmer but optional extras (apart from comments and adding an extra print function or /n ) could be added to make it more exciting for others.

Sample of Hello World Code

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    printf("Hello World! ") ;
    return 0;
}