The Unofficial C For Dummies Website

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

Recent Blog Lessons

Error Message to stdout: May 18, 2013 While you might see plenty of examples of stdin and stdout, examples of stderr are less common, although they don't have to be. Link
Calculating a Unix Epoch Date: May 11, 2013 The function that returns a Unix Epoch value is mktime(). It eats a tm structure filled with the relevant date and time values. And therein lies the rub. Link
Binary Bit Fun: |: May 4, 2013 Here's a binary puzzle for you, one that demonstrates how the bitwise OR operator can be used to set bits in an integer value. Link
Hello, Environment: Apr 27, 2013 The operating system keeps an environment, chock full of informative variables. Use the C language to read and even manipulate that information. Link
What's the sizeof That?: Apr 20, 2013 When writing a structure to a file, you need to ensure that you specify the proper structure size in the fwrite() function. Link

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This Month's Exercise

Word Swapping: May 1, 2013 For your May challenge, write code that takes a two word sentence and displays the words in reverse order. Link

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