New CS Student, extended Hello World program

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I'm taking my first coding class and I'm trying to figure out how to make a Hello, World! program ask for my name and then reply with it. Our instructor gave us the lines

int

main(int argc,char **argv)

{

int x;

printf("hello, world!\n");
printf("give me a number! ");
scanf(" %d",&x);
printf("%d is my favorite number!!\n",x + 1);
return 0;
}

which is a working hello world program when compiled, but we have to make it ask for our name as well, which I cannot figure out.

This was his hint:

//test

#include <string.h>

char s[512];                        //allocate an array to hold a string
printf("type in some stuff: ");
fgets(s,sizeof(s),stdin);           //read in a string of characters
s[strlen(s) - 1] = '\0';            //remove the newline character
printf ("you typed %s!\n", s);
//NOTE: this code fails if string is larger than 511 characters

but seeing as I know literally nothing about coding it isn't very helpful to me. I have a quiz on this tomorrow (the activity was assigned Monday) so quick help would be appreciated, thanks.

Also, I'm brand new and can't figure out the formatting. Sorry!

asked 1 min ago

NewCsStudent432

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New CS Student, extended Hello World program