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

A Tally of Unique Words, Part VI: January 15, 2022 Not content with the results desired, I take the code one step further to store the unique and duplicate words.
A Tally of Unique Words, Part V: January 8, 2022 Before you can identify unique and duplicate words, you must count them.
A Tally of Unique Words, Part IV: January 1, 2022 To find unique words in a let, you start by sorting the list.
A Tally of Unique Words, Part III: December 25, 2021 This step in my unique words program involves retaining the addresses of each word in the string.
A Tally of Unique Words, Part II: December 18, 2021 The next step in locating unique words is to parse the buffer, slicing into separate word chunks.

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

This Month's Exercise

Decoding a String: January 1, 2022 48190F0009A72E1712A9390CFC11AFE9

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Showcase Title

I'm pleased to announce the early preview of my next programming title, Tiny C Projects from Manning Publishing.

MEAP is the Manning Early Access Program, which allows you to review already-submitted content before the book is published. Four of 21 planned Chapters are available online; I'm submitting new chapters as I write them. So please check it out. Here is the link: http://mng.bz/yJVG

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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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