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Giulio Zambon, Practical C, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1769-6_1

1. Introduction

Giulio Zambon

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Because this is a book of recipes, you will not find a description of C, although to ensure that we are all on the same page (pun entirely intended!), I sometimes include brief explanations of individual features of the language. Chapter 2 also covers some aspects of C that are often sources of mistakes.

For an introduction to C, you can refer to the classical K&R (Kernighan’s and Ritchie’s The C Programming Language), Apress’s ...

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