Learn C Programming: A beginner's guide to learning the most powerful and general-purpose programming language with ease

by Jeff Szuhay

Overview

The foundation for many modern programming languages such as C++, C#, JavaScript, and Go, C is widely used as a system programming language as well as for embedded systems and high-performance computing. With this book, you'll be able to get up to speed with C in no time.
The book takes you through basic programming concepts and shows you how to implement them in the C programming language. Throughout the book, you’ll create and run programs that demonstrate essential C concepts, such as program structure with functions, control structures such as loops and conditional statements, and complex data structures. As you make progress, you’ll get to grips with in-code documentation, testing, and validation methods. This new edition expands upon the use of enumerations, arrays, and additional C features, and provides two working programs based on the code used in the book. What's more, this book uses the method of intentional failure, where you'll develop a working program and then purposely break it to see what happens, thereby learning how to recognize possible mistakes when they happen.
By the end of this C programming book, you’ll have developed basic programming skills in C that can be easily applied to other programming languages and have gained a solid foundation for you to build on as a programmer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801075114
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	742
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Running Hello, world
2. Understanding Program Structure
3. Working with Basic Data Types
4. Using Variables and Assignments
5. Exploring Operators and Expressions
6. Exploring Conditional Program Flow
7. Exploring Loops and Iterations
8. Creating and Using Enumerations
9. Creating and Using Structures
10. Creating Custom Data Types with Typedef
11. Working with Arrays
12. Working with Multi-dimensional Arrays
13. Using Pointers
14. Understanding Arrays and Pointers
15. Working with Strings
16. Creating and Using More Complex Structures
17. Understanding Memory Allocation and Lifetime
18. Using Dynamic Memory Allocation
19. Exploring Formatted Output
20. Getting Input From the Command Line
21. Exploring Formatted Input
22. Working with Files
23. Using File Input and File Output
24. Working with Multi-File Programs
25. Understanding Scope
26. Building Multi-File Programs with Make
27. Creating Two Card Programs
28. Appendix