This is the first in a series of articles that will investigate professionalism in programming. Given that the ACCU exists to promote 'professionalism at all levels', these articles are going to delve into what this apparent oxymoron means. We will be addressing what makes a 'professional' programmer.

After reading Nigel Eke's series on Monopoly in Overload, it occurred to me that there might be interest in seeing the process of bringing a commercial game to market.

In C Vu 12.1 (page 19), Edward Collier reasonably asked what was wrong with scanf() and fscanf(). The short answer is that they are two of several Standard C Library functions which fail to honour buffer bounds.