In this course you're going to develop a character-mode program called FileDumper that accepts a filename and a command line switch as inputs and dumps the specified file in ASCII, hex, decimal, floating point numbers, double-precision floating point numbers, shorts, ints, or longs.
The value of the command line switch will determine the data format of the dump.
Since this program is going to be developed in several steps, it's important to try to keep your code as general and adaptable as possible.
In order to meet the requirements in a particular module, previously written code may have to be refactored.
You won't start working on the course project until you've gained some preliminary skills. In the first few modules, you'll have a chance to write smaller programs and submit them.
In that course, you'll turn the character-mode program into one with a graphical user interface that lets you open any file and view its contents in a variety of ways.
In the next lesson, we'll explain how the course works and what you need to get started.