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Learn C Programming.

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

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jun 2024
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Description

Get started with writing simple programs in C while learning core programming concepts

Key Features

  • Learn essential C concepts such as variables, data structures, functions, loops, and pointers
  • Grasp the core programming aspects that form the base of many modern programming languages
  • Work with updated code samples and cover array declaration and initialization in detail in this new edition

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Implement fundamental programming concepts through C programs
  • Understand the importance of creating complex data types and the functions to manipulate them
  • Develop good coding practices and learn to write clean code
  • Validate your programs before developing them further
  • Use the C Standard Library functions and understand why it is advantageous
  • Build and run a multi-file program with Make
  • Get an overview of how C has changed since its introduction and where it is going

Who this book is for

If you're an absolute beginner who has basic familiarity with operating a computer, this book will help you learn the most fundamental concepts and practices that you need to know to become a successful C programmer. If you're an experienced programmer, you'll find the full range of C syntax as well as common C idioms covered in the book useful.

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
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-C-Programming-Second-Edition
PDF ISBN: 978-1-80107-511-4
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2022 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 742
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Fundamentals of computer sciences
BISAC subjects:
COM000000,
COM051230,
COM051060
Thema subjects:
UB,
UM,
UMX

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