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

More Globbling with the fnmatch() Function: June 19, 2021 The fnmatch() function is more of a string searching function than a filename matching tool.
Reading Wildcards from the Command Line: June 12, 2021 You can't detect when a wildcard is present as a command line argument, but your code can properly process such an argument.
Understanding the Glob: June 5, 2021 You may know them as wildcards in Windows, but in the Linux/Unix universe it's the glob.
Wild About Wildcards: May 29, 2021 What happens when your program tries to open a file named *.txt?
Creating a Pointer Array (Correct): May 22, 2021 It's possible to assign a pointer to an array of integers, but you can't do it all in a single statement.

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

This Month's Exercise

Watch the Stock Market: June 1, 2021 Devise a program that outputs stock prices at the 30 minute mark throughout the trading day.

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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