The Unofficial C For Dummies Website

This page supports the C programming books written by Dan Gookin, as well as the C language training courses offered online at LinkedIn Learning. All coders are welcome.

Recent Lessons

Finding a Binary Date: November 8, 2025 The year's dates must be stored for proper binary examination.
Today's Date is Binary!: November 1, 2025 Check it out: November 1st is 11-01, which is 13 decimal or 0xD in hex. I'm a nerd!
Filling the Pointer Pointers with Data: October 25, 2025 Time to wrap up the code by putting data into the buffers, then accessing the data by using a double-pointer.
Adding Pointers to Pointers: October 18, 2025 Bloat that buffer to make room for more buffers!
The Ever-Expanding Pointer Array: October 11, 2025 Managing a buncha pointers.

Lessons are posted each Saturday; see the blog for all the Lessons

This Month's Exercise

Having Fun with goto: November 1, 2025 It's the keyword you should avoid — except for in this challenge!

Exercises are posted on the first of the month; see the blog for all the Exercises

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