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Effective C
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Effective C

by Robert C. Seacord
August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 2m
English
No Starch Press
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1GETTING STARTED WITH C

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In this chapter, you’ll develop your first C program: the traditional “Hello, world!” program. I’ll take you through the various aspects of this simple program, as well as compiling and running a C program. Then I’ll discuss some editor and compiler options, and lay out common portability issues you’ll quickly become familiar with as you code in C.

Developing Your First C Program

The best way to learn C programming is to start writing C programs, and the traditional program to start with is “Hello, world!”

To write this program, you need a text editor or integrated development environment (IDE). There are many to choose ...

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