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

Magic Numbers: September 18, 2021 No, there's nothing magical about them.
Is it Bad to Cast malloc()?: September 11, 2021 Apparently one of the Great Programming Debates raging currently regards casting of the malloc() function.
When Passing a String to a Function, Be Careful That You Don't . . .: September 4, 2021 Initializing a string as a pointer works, but . . .
Manipulating a String in a Function: August 28, 2021 It's possible to mess with a string within a function, but at some point things go haywire.
Passing Strings to a Function: August 21, 2021 Passing strings to functions the easy way — but don't count in it being easy for long.

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

This Month's Exercise

Scramble a String: September 1, 2021 nSetrrm bil acgaS

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

Current Titles

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

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C language For Dummies titles written by Dan Gookin,
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