{"id":6349,"date":"2024-04-13T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2024-04-06T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T18:06:19","slug":"c-blog-11th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=6349","title":{"rendered":"C Blog 11th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/C-blog-11-anniversary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/C-blog-11-anniversary.png 305w, https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/C-blog-11-anniversary-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><br \/>\nToday marks this blog&#8217;s 11th anniversary. The first post was made 11 years ago on April 13th, 2013. This date coincided with the release of my book, <em>Beginning Programming with C For Dummies<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe original <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19980501025227\/http:\/\/www.c-for-dummies.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">C For Dummies website<\/a> (launched in 1997) lacked a blog, which meant I had to write new pages to add articles updating information from the book or offering challenges. This approach proved to be too cumbersome, so I added the blog.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote and and posted for a few months before the book came out to ensure that new users would see material and not view a disappointing &#8220;coming soon&#8221; page. Since that time, and consistently, I&#8217;ve published a new Lesson every Saturday and a new Exercise every month on the first. So far that&#8217;s 826 posts. At an average of 500 words per post, that&#8217;s over 413,000 words on C programming &mdash; almost as much as a king-size novel!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the subscribers and folks who have contributed and emailed over the years. Thank you for enjoying my C programming blog! It shall continue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks this blog&#8217;s 11th anniversary. The first post was made 11 years ago on April 13th, 2013. This date coincided with the release of my book, Beginning Programming with C For Dummies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6359,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/6359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}