Before you can embark upon the frightening topic of Time Math, you need to convert dates and times into Unix Epoch time_t values. It’s not that difficult of a task, assuming that you can accept that time programming in C isn’t complex and rude, which of course it is.
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May the 4th be with you! It’s Jedi day, or Star Wars day, or whatever. Here’s a binary puzzle for you, one which demonstrates how the bitwise OR operator can be used to set bits in an integer value.
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For your May challenge, write code that takes a two word sentence and displays the words in reverse order. For example, take the string Swap me and have the program spit out the text me Swap.
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The operating system keeps several variables in memory, variables that hold information necessary to running the computer. For example, the path variable lists directories in which the operating system looks for programs. The prompt variable describes how to display the command prompt. Some programs even create variables, allowing the programs to save configuration or other information.
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When writing a structure to a file, you need to ensure that you specify the proper structure size. The sizeof keyword is obviously the way you determine the size, but what exactly are you getting the size of?
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