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

Merry Pointer Mischief: July 20, 2024 Here's the difference between *data and **data as arguments in a function.
More ANSI Code Cursor Manipulation: July 13, 2024 Use ASNI commands to save and restore the cursor's position.
Erasing Text for Stream Output: July 6, 2024 Backing up is one thing. Backing up and erasing is three things.
A Grid of Random Stars, Part VII: June 29, 2024 The final update consolidates the code — and removes pointer notation.
A Grid of Random Stars, Part VI: June 22, 2024 More fine tuning is required to get the code to where I want.

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

This Month's Exercise

Clear the Screen: July 1, 2024 It's such a simple task, but not something C is capable of natively.

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

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