The Unofficial C For Dummies Website

This page supports the C programming books written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley, as well as the C language training courses offered online at LinkedIn Learning.

Recent Lessons

Reversing a String: September 24, 2022 I'm shocked! I've not shared this function before.
Vertical Table Output: September 17, 2022 It's amazing what tricks you can pull with stream output when you're willing to put effort into your code.
Generating a Table from Stream Output: September 10, 2022 It's much neater to output a long array of values in a table than as a tall list.
Integer Size Values - Again: September 3, 2022 An update to my earlier post on how many bits are in various integer data types.
Help Me Figure Out This Trick: August 27, 2022 My goal is to understand this weird trick for discovering the maximum power of two that divides an integer.

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

This Month's Exercise

Cyclops Numbers: September 1, 2022 These scary numbers have a big zero in the middle!

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

Showcase Title

I'm pleased to announce the early preview of my next programming title, Tiny C Projects from Manning Publishing.

MEAP is the Manning Early Access Program, which allows you to review already-submitted content before the book is published. Four of 21 planned Chapters are available online; I'm submitting new chapters as I write them. So please check it out. Here is the link: http://mng.bz/yJVG

Proceeds from sale of this book (compensated link) go toward supporting this website. Thank you!

Current Titles

For support on my older C titles: Beginning C Programming, C All-In-One reference and C For Dummies.

Online Training

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