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🏊 C Piscine Exam 01: Survival Guide Exam 01 is usually the second test in the 42 Piscine (Week 2) and is a significant step up from Exam 00. While Exam 00 focused on basic logic and character manipulation, Exam 01 starts testing your understanding of standard C concepts and command-line arguments. 🛠️ Core Topics to Master

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Compilation: Code must compile with the flags -Wall -Wextra -Werror. 🏊 C Piscine Exam 01: Survival Guide Exam

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Infinite Loops: Ensure your pointers or index variables are incrementing correctly. Read the Traces: The exam interface shows "Trace

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Goal: Linked lists, base conversion, sorting.

💡 Strategy Tips

1. Read the Traces: The exam interface shows "Trace 1", "Trace 2". These are the inputs and expected outputs. Use them! If your output doesn't match the trace, look at the difference closely.
2. Don't Panic on Segfaults: A segfault usually means you are accessing an array index out of bounds or dereferencing a NULL pointer. Check your loop limits.
3. Simplify: If you write printf, it will fail (unless allowed). Use write.
4. Test Locally: Write a main function locally to test your logic before pasting into the exam interface.