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

Input Minus the Echo: February 22, 2020 Normally, standard input is output to the display. When you type a password, it's suppressed. Ever wonder how that happens?
Yet Another Oddball: Token Paste: February 15, 2020 The preprocessor ## operator is one of the most peculiar ones I've encountered.
Hunt the Wumpus Code: February 8, 2020 The blow-by-blow of my C code for the game Hunt the Wumpus.
Implementing Hunt the Wumpus in C: February 1, 2020 Saying that the code for Hunt the Wumpus is easy to create and actually creating it are two different things.
Hunt the Wumpus: January 25, 2020 A classic text game from the early days of computing is easy to recreate in the C language.

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

This Month's Exercise

Automated Guessing Game: February 1, 2020 Have the computer guess its own number.

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Current Titles

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