Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it. You may be able to get help on the Software Recommendations Stack Exchange. — MattDMo 44 secs ago

Open letter to students with homework problems — Andreas 14 secs ago

You can tell the programmers that were programming for windows when the 16 to 32 bit transition happened. Because they changed all of their code that used to use int to use long as int changed size but long didnt, so you could port your code between 16 and 32 bit platforms with the likes of turbo/borland compilers and others of the time. Only to get burned on some platforms when the 32 to 64 bit transition happened and on some long changed size. Of course using terms like 8, 16, 32, 64 bit processor is full of problems in and of itself. for the x86 though basically 286/386 time frame. — old_timer 51 secs ago

experienced programmers are here to help you. It's your job to try to make it easier for us to do so. Take the time to simplify your code as much as possible while still replicating the problem. — Elliott 30 secs ago

Dozens of experienced programmers have already looked at your question. We are all here to help you, and we're not being paid for it. If you put some effort into your question to make it less verbose then it wouldn't be so time-consuming for us to review. You will get more responses that way. — Elliott 36 secs ago

@MaurizioCirilli, I disagree. You can see here that "This question currently includes multiple questions in one" is a valid reason to close a question. The fact that 3 people voted on my comment means people agree. Someone answering a question is only a weak signal of that question being good. StackOverflow is fundamentally about helping programmers help themselves. It is not supposed to be a "code my task for me" style of site — jeremysprofile 54 secs ago

Downvote: The current answer returns a 30-character long string with lots of null characters on the end. If you attempt to concatenate something to it, it will not work. I did suggest an edit to make it work, but it was rejected by Django programmers.... — Den-Jason 23 secs ago

could you tell a bit more about /tmp and unitary tests, I am not a software engineer myself — Quantum0xE7 1 min ago

@EOF Look man, whatever validation you're after I hope you find it. You're not going to get it from a student that's 2 weeks into Intro to C. Not everyone is going to have your level of understanding, so your "clarification" may not be received by the intended audience, which is arguably the point in teaching. From what I understand, Stack Overflow's mantra is, "...most trusted online community for developers to learn, share​ ​their programming ​knowledge." Unless my comprehension isn't as fine tuned as yours, I understood that as all levels of learning, not"Forum for programmers of 6+ years." — Bryson Sherman 6 secs ago

@SoftwareEngineer I have edited with some of the code I have so far. Thanks! — AcademicCoder11 35 secs ago

welcome to SO. This is a place for programmers who share the code they have written (an MRE, a Minimal Reproducible Example), describe what it is doing (including error messages), and describe what it should do. Read all about it in stackoverflow.com/help — lit just now

@Soleil-MathieuPrévot regarding the second comment. Sure , that is absolutely right. nvidia engineers should have considered these software engineering principles ;) — H.ramezani 57 secs ago