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

Chatting with a Thread: July 2, 2022 A thread not be all lonely in space while it runs.
Introduction to Pipes: June 25, 2022 Pipes are true weirdos in communications programming.
The Thread Must Die!: June 18, 2022 Like any code, it's possible for a thread to run endlessly.
Leaving a Thread Early: June 11, 2022 Just as you can exit a program or function before it's complete, you can also exit a thread.
Multiple Thread Mania: June 4, 2022 Your program can spawn multiple threads, almost as many as a 600 thread count bedsheet - but not that crazy.

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

This Month's Exercise

Your Own Version of left-pad(): July 1, 2022 It seems like a silly piece of code, but it has a delicious and devious history.

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

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

Proceeds from sale of this book (compensated link) go toward supporting this website. Thank you!

Current Titles

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

Online Training

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This site is the online companion to the various
C language For Dummies titles written by Dan Gookin,
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