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

Raw Reading File Data: March 28, 2020 Just as the open() function is different from fopen(), the functions to read and write data to a file are different as well.
Opening a File in the Raw: March 21, 2020 The common C library function to open a file is fopen(), but the open() function also exists. What's the difference?
π Day Bonus!: March 14, 2020 It's 3.14159 day again! Time for another nerdy π calculation.
Three-Way Evaluations: March 14, 2020 The C language can lag behind other languages, but it can also provide inspiration. In the case of the three-way evaluation, it does both.
Outputting Inverse Text: March 7, 2020 Even today's terminals windows can harness the power of ANSI escape codes to generate fancy text.

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

This Month's Exercise

Dump That File!: March 1, 2020 Write code that outputs a file's data in hexadecimal and text characters.

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