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

The String Span Functions: November 27, 2021 Standard library functions strspn and strcspn are oddballs that you may find useful.
All Those _t Data Types: November 20, 2021 No, the C gurus did not add _t just to make declaring variables more difficult to type.
Declaring Structures, Trick #3: November 13, 2021 Another weird thing with bitfields is that you can force their alignment in memory.
Declaring Structures, Trick #2: November 6, 2021 A structure is one of the few places in C where you can declare a bit field.
Declaring Structures, Trick #1: October 30, 2021 You may already know that it's possible to declare and define a structure in a single statement, but here's a trick you may not have seen before.

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

This Month's Exercise

The Power Grid: November 1, 2021 Tables are fun to program. At least I think so. Maybe a bit of math can raise the bar?

Exercises are posted on the first of the month; see the blog for all the Exercises

Showcase Title

I'm pleased to announce the early preview of my next programming title, Tiny C Projects from Manning Publishing.

MEAP is the Manning Early Access Program, which allows you to review already-submitted content before the book is published. Four of 21 planned Chapters are available online; I'm submitting new chapters as I write them. So please check it out. Here is the link: http://mng.bz/yJVG

Proceeds from sale of this book (compensated link) go toward supporting this website. Thank you!

Current Titles

For support on my older C titles: Beginning C Programming, C All-In-One reference and C For Dummies.

Online Training

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