The Unofficial C For Dummies Website

This page supports the C programming books written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley.

Recent Lessons

File Writing and Reading: October 13, 2018 Don't worry about losing your sanity because many of the standard I/O functions have file-oriented counterparts.
A File Outta Nowhere: October 6, 2018 Making a file is easy, providing that you know the proper incantations.
Fun with Preprocessor Names: September 29, 2018
Recursively Plowing a Directory Tree: September 22, 2018 A better way to dive into the directory depths is to track full pathnames.
Directory Spelunking: September 15, 2018 Use what you know about reading directories to recursively plumb the depths of a directory tree structure.

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

This Month's Exercise

Initial Caps: October 1, 2018 Gently massage text so that Each Word Is Capitalized.

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

Current Titles

For support on my older C titles, including the C All-In-One reference and C For Dummies, click the links on the left side of the page.

Online Training

Online training is provided through Linkedin Learning, a subscription service. Click the links to see a preview of my courses and learn how to sign up.

Learning C

Code Clinic: C

Further Topics in C Programming

"For Dummies" is a trademark or registered trademark of John Wiley.
This site is the online companion to the various
C language For Dummies titles written by Dan Gookin,
published by John Wiley.