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Recent Lessons

Reading and Writing Structures to a File: November 17, 2018 Accessing individual structures within a file provides an excellent example of random file access.
Random File Access: November 10, 2018 Reading and writing data within a file hither and thither.
Reading and Writing Raw Data: November 3, 2018 Unlike working with text in a file, working with raw data requires using special file I/O functions.
Reading and Writing Values: October 27, 2018 Just as you can read and write values from standard input and output, you can read and write values from and to files.
Working with Text Files Longer than a Single Line: October 20, 2018 The key to reading an unknown quantity of text from a file is knowing when to stop.

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This Month's Exercise

Counting in Alphabedecimal: November 1, 2018 Write code that gets from AAAA to ZZZZ, base 26.

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