C Programming Essentials, 1st Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. C Programming Essentials
3. Copyright
4. Contents (1/2)
5. Contents (2/2)
6. Preface
7. Introduction
   1. Software
   2. Systems Software
   3. Application Software
   4. Program Development Process
   5. Algorithms
   6. Analysis of Algorithms
   7. Flowcharts
   8. Programming Language Classifications
   9. Programming Techniques
   10. Structured Programming Constructs
   11. History of C Language
   12. C Language Overview
       1. Summary
       2. New Terminology Checklist
       3. Exercises
8. The Foundation of C
   1. Memory and Storage
   2. C Character Set
   3. C Keywords
   4. Whitespaces in C
   5. Data Types
   6. C Constants
   7. Variables
   8. A Peek at Functions
   9. Useful Identifier-Naming Conventions
   10. Type-Declaration Statements
   11. Operators (1/2)
   12. Operators (2/2)
   13. Operator Precedence
   14. Type Conversion in Expressions
   15. Type Conversion in Assignments
   16. Comments
   17. Functions Revisited
   18. Putting it Together
   19. Some Standard Library I/O Functions (1/2)
   20. Some Standard Library I/O Functions (2/2)
   21. Scope of Identifiers
   22. Storage Classes
   23. Storage Type Qualifiers
       1. Summary
       2. New Terminology Checklist
       3. Exercises
9. Control
   1. The if Statement
   2. The switch Statement
   3. The for Statement
   4. The while Statement
   5. The do-while Statement
   6. The dreak and cntinue Statement
   7. The Infamous goto
      1. Summary
      2. New Terminology Checklist
      3. Exercises
10. Functions and Recursion
    1. Introduction
    2. Function Arguments
    3. The return Statement Revisited
    4. Call-By-Value
    5. Stacks in Function Calls
    6. Recursion (1/2)
    7. Recursion (2/2)
    8. Towers of Hanoi—Case Study of Recursion
    9. Efficiency Considerations for Use of Functions
       1. Summary
       2. New Terminology Checklist
       3. Exercises
11. Arrays
    1. Need for Arrays
    2. Single-Dimensional Arrays
    3. Single-Dimensional Array Initialization
    4. Multi-Dimensional Arrays
    5. Matrices
    6. Row-Major and Column-Major Order
    7. Single-Dimensional Character Arrays
    8. Initialization of Strings
    9. gets( ) and puts( )
    10. sscanf( ) and sprintf( )
    11. String Functions
    12. Two-Dimensional Character Arrays
        1. Summary
        2. New Terminology Checklist
        3. Exercises
12. Pointers
    1. Defining a Pointer
    2. Scalars for Pointers
    3. Pointer Assignments and Expressions
    4. Pointer Comparison
    5. Passing Pointers to Functions
    6. Pointers and Arrays—Pointer Arithmetic (1/2)
    7. Pointers and Arrays—Pointer Arithmetic (2/2)
    8. Pointers and Two-Dimensional Arrays
    9. Arrays of Pointers
    10. Pointers to Pointers
    11. Pointers to Functions
    12. Command-Line Arguments
    13. Other Pointer Issues
        1. Summary
        2. New Terminology Checklist
        3. Exercises
13. User-Defined Data Types
    1. Structures
    2. Declaring a Structure
    3. Defining a Structure Variable
    4. Initializing and Referencing Structure Members
    5. Nesting of Structures
    6. Operations on Structures
    7. Pointers to Structures
    8. Structures and Functions
    9. Arrays of Structures
    10. Self-Referential Structures
    11. Unions
    12. Enumerated Data Types
    13. Typedef
    14. Bit Fields
        1. Summary
        2. New Terminology Checklist
        3. Exercises
14. File Access and Processing
    1. Introduction
    2. Opening and Closing a Disc File
    3. Character Input/Output
    4. Error-Handling
    5. Reading and Writing a File in Convenient Chunks
    6. File Positioning
       1. Summary
       2. New Terminology Checklist
       3. Exercises
15. The C Preprocessor
    1. Macro Substitution
    2. File Inclusion
    3. Conditional Compilation
    4. Additional Directives
    5. Predefined Preprocessor Identifiers
    6. ANSI Standard Header files
       1. Summary
       2. New Terminology Checklist
       3. Exercises
16. Common Errorsin C (1/3)
17. Common Errorsin C (2/3)
18. Common Errorsin C (3/3)
19. More on Bitwise Operators in C
20. Some Useful Functions from stdlib.h
21. Creating Static Library with gcc
22. C99-A Brief Introduction
23. Practice Problems (1/9)
24. Practice Problems (2/9)
25. Practice Problems (3/9)
26. Practice Problems (4/9)
27. Practice Problems (5/9)
28. Practice Problems (6/9)
29. Practice Problems (7/9)
30. Practice Problems (8/9)
31. Practice Problems (9/9)
32. Index
33. Back Cover