Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours

by Zhang, Tony; Southmayd, John

• ISBN13: 9780672318610
• ISBN10: 067231861X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-18
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours, Second Edition gives novices the knowledge to learn to program in C in an easy-to-understand format. C is a powerful and flexible language used for a wide range of projects. The reader will begin with learning the basics to write a first program and then moves on to arrays, pointers, disk input/output, functions, and more such as Understanding data types, loops, and strings to make your programs work for you, Working with arrays, structures, and unions to expand your programming skills, Using pointers to access and retrieve data elements, Developing programs that process mathematical equations, functions, and variables, and Exploring memory management techniques.

Author Biography

Tony Zhang is a software engineer with more than 15 years of computer programming experience. Besides application-level programming experience in GUI, client/server, database, and networking, Tony has enhanced his system-level programming skills for X86 and advanced digital signal/image processors through his involvement on various projects. He is also the co-author of Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 for Windows NT in 21 Days.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Part I The Basics of C	9	(80)
Taking the First Step	11	(16)
Writing Your First C Program	27	(14)
Learning the Structure of a C Program	41	(14)
Understanding Data Types and Keywords	55	(16)
Handling Standard Input and Output	71	(18)
Part II Operators and Control-flow Statements	89	(84)
Manipulating Data	91	(14)
Working with Loops	105	(16)
Using Conditional Operators	121	(20)
Working with Data Modifiers and Math Functions	141	(14)
Controlling Program Flow	155	(18)
Part III Pointers and Arrays	173	(68)
Understanding Pointers	175	(14)
Understanding Arrays	189	(18)
Manipulating Strings	207	(16)
Understanding Scope and Storage Classes	223	(18)
Part IV Functions and Dynamic Memory Allocation	241	(70)
Working with Functions	243	(16)
Applying Pointers	259	(20)
Allocating Memory	279	(16)
Using Special Data Types and Functions	295	(16)
Part V Structure, Union, File I/O, and More	311	(126)
Understanding Structures	313	(20)
Understanding Unions	333	(22)
Reading and Writing with Files	355	(18)
Using Special File Functions	373	(18)
Compiling Programs: The C Preprocessor	391	(18)
Where Do You Go from Here?	409	(28)
Part VI Appendixes	437	(66)
Appendix A ANSI Standard Header Files	439	(2)
Appendix B Answers to Quiz Questions and Exercises	441	(62)
Index	503