The Unofficial C For Dummies Website

This page supports the C programming books written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley.

Recent Lessons

Directory Spelunking: September 15, 2018 Use what you know about reading directories to recursively plumb the depths of a directory tree structure.
Pulling a Directory: September 8, 2018
Directory Entry File Types: September 1, 2018 The dirent structure contains not only a directory entry's filename, but what kind of file it is.
Reading a Directory: August 25, 2018 Directories are read like files, but with special rules, restrictions, and formats.
What Evil Lurks in a Header File . . . ?: August 18, 2018 It's easy to craft your own header files in C, but when is a custom header file necessary?

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

This Month's Exercise

Shuffle That Playlist: September 1, 2018 Write code that ensure two songs in a playlist aren't repeated until the entire list is processed.

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