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

Modifying an Array: September 7, 2024 Many other programming languages have plenty of array manipulation functions (or methods). But in the C language, you must code your own.
More Messing with Array Subscripts: August 31, 2024 Here's something truly weird that works — and makes sense when you know what's going on behind the scenes.
Exploring Allocated Memory: August 24, 2024 Time to look under the hood at what the malloc() and realloc() functions do.
The Art of Memory Reallocation: August 17, 2024 Please, Mr. Computer, change the size of this memory chunk.
Hungarian Notation Rhapsody: August 10, 2024 Here is yet another way to add descriptive power to a variable name.

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

This Month's Exercise

Describing Complex Data: September 1, 2024 Devise a way to describe a matrix, specifically one with non-uniform dimensions.

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

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