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 Than One String in a String: October 23, 2021 It's possible to have a string that contains multiple strings. Weird, right? Keep reading.
Trigraph Sequences: October 16, 2021 Valid in C source code, but rarely used these days, trigraphs present another way to represent certain characters.
Misused Placeholders: October 9, 2021 The compiler may flag the blunder, but output is still generated. What does it mean?
Frying a String: October 2, 2021 The GNU C library features a string scrambling function, strfry().
The strerror() Function: September 25, 2021 Here's yet another, fun C library function that spews forth a system error message.

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

This Month's Exercise

Alphabedecimal Revisited: October 1, 2021 Once again, the challenge is to count from AAAA to ZZZZ — but without using nested loops or a cascading if structure.

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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