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Recent Lessons

Tick-Tock Goes the Clock, Part I: December 15, 2018 Writing a clock program isn't as easy as it seems.
Variable Argument Lists: December 8, 2018 Understand how functions such as printf() lack a specific list of arguments.
The Ins and Outs of fgets(): December 1, 2018 Vital to using the fgets() function is understanding how it reads characters from the input stream.
Dealing with Structures, Pointers, and Files: November 24, 2018 My advice is to avoid using pointers when your desire is to read and write structures to a file.
Reading and Writing Structures to a File: November 17, 2018 Accessing individual structures within a file provides an excellent example of random file access.

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This Month's Exercise

The Whole Month from a Single Day: December 1, 2018 Given a day of the week and date of the month, reconstruct the entire month and output it one week.

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