The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to use pointers to work through a multi-dimensional array. As I mentioned in the exercise post, multi-dimensional arrays are all stored as a single-dimension where the compiler calculates offsets for rows and columns (and more) for you.
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The C language woefully lacks a trim() or similar string manipulation function. Rather than let it flail in absent envy, your task for this month’s Exercise is to code such a function. The goal is to remove whitespace characters from either end of a string.
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Once again, the challenge for this month’s exercise is to unravel a math puzzle. This time, the puzzle reads like this:
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This month’s C programming exercise is to extract numbers from a string. Specifically, your task is to code the extract() function that returns the address of a digit found in a string. This function must also be capable of repeat calls to continue locating digits within the same string.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to generate three random values and determine if they work as sides of a valid triangle. To make this determination, you must consider three types of triangles and test the generated values for each.
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The task for this month’s Exercise is to write a function, greatest(), that returns the largest of three values. While this task could be done easily with an if-else construction, the second part of the challenge is to write the entire thing as a single ternary statement. How’d you do?
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This month’s C programming Exercise is probably the most bizarre one I’ve ever offered! Using the goto keyword is frowned upon, which means that your C programmer brain is unaccustomed to thinking about using goto to construct, well, anything!
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to code Heron’s Formula. This geometric magic calculates the area of a triangle given the length of each of its three sides.
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The task for this month’s C programming Exercise is to code a filter that reverses single words. As a filter, the code deals with standard input and output, but it must store this input in word-sized chunks for the reversing process to work.
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My solution for this month’s Exercise didn’t require much work. What I did was to “stack overflow” the problem by pulling in functions from earlier Lessons. The only new portion of code deals with processing the input before sending the string off to the b36_decimal() function I’ve already written.
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