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

The Golden Ratio - Recursion Version: November 21, 2020 As a C coder, I am delighted to offer any code that takes advantage of recursion.
The Golden Ratio: November 14, 2020 It's not as well known as π or even the e constant, but it's still one of those math thingies programmers can play with.
More Efficient Prime Number Calculations: November 7, 2020 My shortcut for hunting for prime numbers.
Generating Prime Numbers: October 31, 2020 One way of coding a prime number generating program is to discover which numbers have factors of only 1 and themselves.
A Matter of Factors: October 24, 2020 To hunt for a prime number, you must ensure that the number has no factors other than itself and one.

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This Month's Exercise

Calculating Months: November 1, 2020 This is month number 24251.

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