C Programming Absolute Beginner’s Guide, 3rd Edition
- Length: 352 pages
- Edition: 3
- Language: English
- Publisher: Que Publishing
- Publication Date: 2013-08-17
- ISBN-10: 0789751984
- ISBN-13: 9780789751980
- Sales Rank: #25301 (See Top 100 Books)
Updated for C11
Write powerful C programs…without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has neverbeen this simple!
Who knew how simple C programming could be?
This is today’s best beginner’s guide to writing C programs–and to learning skills you can use with practically any language. Its simple, practical instructions will help you start creating useful, reliable C code, from games to mobile apps. Plus, it’s fully updated for the new C11 standard and today’s free, open source tools! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:
- Discover free C programming tools for Windows, OS X, or Linux
- Understand the parts of a C program and how they fit together
- Generate output and display it on the screen
- Interact with users and respond to their input
- Make the most of variables by using assignments and expressions
- Control programs by testing data and using logical operators
- Save time and effort by using loops and other techniques
- Build powerful data-entry routines with simple built-in functions
- Manipulate text with strings
- Store information, so it’s easy to access and use
- Manage your data with arrays, pointers, and data structures
- Use functions to make programs easier to write and maintain
- Let C handle all your program’s math for you
- Handle your computer’s memory as efficiently as possible
- Make programs more powerful with preprocessing directives
Table of Contents
Part I: Jumping Right In
Chapter 1 What Is C Programming, and Why Should I Care?
Chapter 2 Writing Your First C Program
Chapter 3 What Does This Do? Clarifying Your Code with Comments
Chapter 4 Your World Premiere—Putting Your Program’s Results Up on the Screen
Chapter 5 Adding Variables to Your Programs
Chapter 6 Adding Words to Your Programs
Chapter 7 Making Your Programs More Powerful with #include and #define
Chapter 8 Interacting with Users
Part II: Putting C to Work for You with Operators and Expressions
Chapter 9 Crunching the Numbers—Letting C Handle Math for You
Chapter 10 Powering Up Your Variables with Assignments and Expressions
Chapter 11 The Fork in the Road—Testing Data to Pick a Path
Chapter 12 Juggling Several Choices with Logical Operators
Chapter 13 A Bigger Bag of Tricks—Some More Operators for Your Programs
Part III: Fleshing Out Your Programs
Chapter 14 Code Repeat—Using Loops to Save Time and Effort
Chapter 15 Looking for Another Way to Create Loops
Chapter 16 Breaking in and out of Looped Code
Chapter 17 Making the case for the switch Statement
Chapter 18 Increasing Your Program’s Output (and Input)
Chapter 19 Getting More from Your Strings
Chapter 20 Advanced Math (for the Computer, Not You!)
Part IV: Managing Data with Your C Programs
Chapter 21 Dealing with Arrays
Chapter 22 Searching Arrays
Chapter 23 Alphabetizing and Arranging Your Data
Chapter 24 Solving the Mystery of Pointers
Chapter 25 Arrays and Pointers
Chapter 26 Maximizing Your Computer’s Memory
Chapter 27 Setting Up Your Data with Structures
Part V: Files and Functions
Chapter 28 Saving Sequential Files to Your Computer
Chapter 29 Saving Random Files to Your Computer
Chapter 30 Organizing Your Programs with Functions
Chapter 31 Passing Variables to Your Functions
Chapter 32 Returning Data from Your Functions
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