Practical C Programming 3e 3rd Revised edition

Emphasizing skills for real-world programming, this guide covers not only the mechanics of C programming, but also the entire life cycle of a C program. This third edition introduces popular integrated development environments on Windows systems, as well as UNIX programming utilities, and features a large statistics-generating program to pull together the concepts and features in the language. Chapters on basics review the software life cycle and teach readers to write very simple programs. Later chapters describe simple statements and operators used in programming and how to order them into simple functions, then turn to advanced programming, showing how to use the basic declarations already covered to construct structures, unions, and classes. Oualline works as a software engineer for a major phone company. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This new edition of "Practical C Programming" teaches users not only the mechanics or programming, but also how to create programs that are easy to read, maintain, and debug. It features more extensive examples and an introduction to graphical development environments. Programs conform to ANSI C.
There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks® famous.C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debugging also play a tremendous part in creating programs that run well and are easy to maintain. This book teaches you not only the mechanics of programming, but also describes how to create programs that are easy to read, debug, and update.Practical rules are stressed. For example, there are fifteen precedence rules in C (&& comes before || comes before ?:). The practical programmer reduces these to two:Multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction.Contrary to popular belief, most programmers do not spend most of their time creating code. Most of their time is spent modifying someone else's code. This books shows you how to avoid the all-too-common obfuscated uses of C (and also to recognize these uses when you encounter them in existing programs) and thereby to leave code that the programmer responsible for maintenance does not have to struggle with. Electronic Archaeology, the art of going through someone else's code, is described.This third edition introduces popular Integrated Development Environments on Windows systems, as well as UNIX programming utilities, and features a large statistics-generating program to pull together the concepts and features in the language.
This new edition of "Practical C Programming" teaches users not only the mechanics or programming, but also how to create programs that are easy to read, maintain, and debug. It features more extensive examples and an introduction to graphical development environments. Programs conform to ANSI C.