Step-by-Step Guide to C Programming, A

Step-by-Step Guide to C Programming, A, 1/e

Jean Paul Corriveau, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science & Tech

Published November, 1997 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

Provides a practical, comprehensive, and hands-on approach to C Programming. The approach is didactic and example-driven.

Features

Explains every concept through practical examples rather than abstract discussions.
Provides instruction in writing large programs using examples and exercises that build upon earlier examples and exercises. Function definitions and their portability are thoroughly discussed.
Provides a section on common errors and traps that students often encounter.
Provides exercises after only one or two examples. This gives students the opportunity to verify their understanding of the concepts presented.

Table of Contents

1. Background Preparation.
2. Input/Output Operations.
3. Arithmetic and Data Types.
4. Introduction to Decision Structures.
5. Decision Structures: More Complex Issues.
6. Putting it All Together.
7. Introduction to the while Loop.
8. More Complex Applications of while.
9. Other Kinds of Loops.
10. User-Defined Functions.
11. More Complex Issues about Functions.
12. Building Programs with Multiple Function Definitions.
13. Technical Details about Some Operators and Data Types.
14. One-Dimensional Arrays.
15. Why Use Arrays?
16. Accessing Arrays with Pointers.
17. Two-Dimensional Arrays.
18. Character Strings.
19. User-Defined String Functions.
20. More Complex Applications for Strings.
21. Structures and Enumerated Types.
22. User-Defined Types and Applications.
Appendix A: ASCII Character Codes.
Appendix B: Operator Precedence and Associativity.
Appendix C: Preprocessor Directives.
Appendix D: Static Variables.
Appendix E: Hexadecimal Number Representation.
Appendix F: The Input Mechanism.
Appendix G: Some Input/Output Objects from C++.
Index.