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

Powers of Three: May 30, 2020 Your programming career counts from decimal to hexadecimal with perhaps some binary and octal thrown in. What about ternary?
Degrees to Radians to Degrees: May 23, 2020 It surprises me constants aren't available for these conversions.
Creating a File "in the Raw" - with Permissions: May 16, 2020 Time to fix a problem program from an earlier blog post.
Changing a File's Permissions: May 9, 2020 Just as you can examine permissions assigned to a file, your code can alter the permissions.
Examining File Type and Permissions: May 2, 2020 Thanks to macros and defined constants, you can determine a file's type and evaluate its permissions.

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

This Month's Exercise

Getting to Euler's Number: June 1, 2020 How long does it take for a program to reach the e constant?

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