Read K&R and the standard, that's a good exercise.
Seriously now?
Write an http downloader, write a netcat clone (not with all those feats ofcourse) write an IRC bot (how original!) write a basic text editor (give ncurses a try ;-)
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Anonymous2007-09-07 18:32 ID:Ke+ii0SZ
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Also, write a program that prints the size of a file in whatever format specified by some command line argument (eg -f BKMG)
B - bytes K KBs etc.
(use getopt() or getopt_long() if you want --faggot-style= for that)
Write a program like wc(1) too wc - print the number of newlines, words, and bytes in files and cat(1)
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Anonymous2007-09-07 18:36 ID:oT3eW+wG
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Yeah, I get paid on the 13th and have reserved a copy of K&R at Borders.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 18:50 ID:KunddgBu
1) pick a program you would like but dont have or want to pay for
2) write it
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Anonymous2007-09-07 19:10 ID:JDcqDP9Y
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Write a standard library that's actually useful