| Preface | p. xv |
| Getting Started With C | p. 1 |
| The first example | p. 3 |
| Running the program | p. 4 |
| A word on program layout | p. 6 |
| Comments | p. 8 |
| Data types | p. 9 |
| Identifiers | p. 11 |
| Expressions | p. 13 |
| Arithmetic operators | p. 13 |
| Assignment operators | p. 14 |
| Relational operators | p. 15 |
| Logical operators | p. 16 |
| Increment and decrement operators | p. 17 |
| Mixing operands in an expression | p. 17 |
| Statements | p. 18 |
| Standard input and output | p. 19 |
| The while statement | p. 23 |
| The if ... else statement | p. 26 |
| Exercises 1 | p. 30 |
| More Control Structures and Arrays | p. 32 |
| The for statement | p. 32 |
| The do ... while statement | p. 36 |
| The switch statement | p. 40 |
| The continue statement | p. 42 |
| Arrays | p. 43 |
| Strings | p. 48 |
| Sequential and binary search | p. 50 |
| Exercises 2 | p. 52 |
| Functions - the Basics | p. 55 |
| An example - factorial | p. 55 |
| Function definition | p. 60 |
| Sequential search | p. 61 |
| Binary search | p. 63 |
| The One-Zero game | p. 64 |
| Exercises 3 | p. 72 |
| Character Handling | p. 76 |
| Character sets | p. 77 |
| getchar and putchar | p. 79 |
| Example - letter frequency count | p. 83 |
| Strings (arrays of characters) | p. 86 |
| Example - word frequency count | p. 93 |
| Hashing | p. 94 |
| Back to the problem | p. 98 |
| Insertion sort | p. 106 |
| Sorting the words | p. 110 |
| Printing the table | p. 111 |
| Exercises 4 | p. 118 |
| Functions and Pointers | p. 120 |
| Parameter passing | p. 120 |
| Pointer variables | p. 125 |
| More on parameter passing | p. 129 |
| A voting problem | p. 131 |
| Character pointers | p. 139 |
| Pointer arithmetic | p. 141 |
| Pointers to functions | p. 145 |
| Near, far and huge pointers | p. 149 |
| Recursion | p. 150 |
| An example - Towers of Hanoi | p. 151 |
| An example - decimal to binary | p. 153 |
| An example - quicksort | p. 153 |
| Exercises 5 | p. 157 |
| Data Types, Operators and Storage Classes | p. 160 |
| Data types | p. 160 |
| Operators | p. 164 |
| Bit operators | p. 167 |
| Conditional expressions | p. 170 |
| Storage classes in C | p. 171 |
| automatic | p. 172 |
| external | p. 173 |
| static | p. 177 |
| register | p. 179 |
| Other scope rules | p. 179 |
| Initialization | p. 180 |
| Simple variables | p. 180 |
| Array variables | p. 181 |
| Two-dimensional arrays | p. 184 |
| Exercises 6 | p. 185 |
| Basic Structures and Linked Lists | p. 187 |
| The voting problem revisited | p. 187 |
| typedef | p. 189 |
| Passing structures to functions | p. 192 |
| Pointers to structures | p. 201 |
| Linked lists | p. 202 |
| Dynamic storage allocation - malloc, calloc, sizeof | p. 204 |
| Building a linked list - version 1 | p. 208 |
| Some characteristics of linked lists | p. 210 |
| Building a linked list - version 2 | p. 211 |
| Deletion from a linked list | p. 213 |
| Building a linked list - version 3 | p. 214 |
| Exercises 7 | p. 217 |
| Binary Trees and Other Structures | p. 221 |
| Binary trees | p. 221 |
| Representing a binary tree | p. 228 |
| Binary search trees | p. 228 |
| A cross-reference program | p. 233 |
| Initialization of an array of structures | p. 243 |
| Nested structures | p. 244 |
| Unions | p. 245 |
| Bit-fields | p. 250 |
| Exercises 8 | p. 253 |
| Standard Input/Output | p. 256 |
| stdin, stdout, stderr | p. 256 |
| I/O routines | p. 257 |
| Text and binary files | p. 258 |
| Functions for standard input/output | p. 259 |
| getchar and putchar | p. 259 |
| gets and puts | p. 259 |
| printf | p. 260 |
| scanf | p. 268 |
| Exercises 9 | p. 277 |
| File Input/Output | p. 279 |
| Internal vs external file name | p. 279 |
| fopen and fclose | p. 280 |
| getc and putc | p. 284 |
| File processing example - telephone charges | p. 285 |
| feof and ferror | p. 290 |
| fgets and fputs | p. 291 |
| sprintf and sscanf | p. 295 |
| Input/output for binary files | p. 296 |
| fread and fwrite | p. 296 |
| Random access files | p. 300 |
| rewind and fseek | p. 300 |
| Indexed files | p. 303 |
| Updating a random access file | p. 312 |
| Exercises 10 | p. 318 |
| Miscellaneous Topics | p. 320 |
| The C preprocessor | p. 320 |
| The #define directive | p. 321 |
| The #undef directive | p. 333 |
| The #include directive | p. 333 |
| Conditional compilation - #if, #elif, #else, #endif directives | p. 333 |
| Command-line arguments - argc and argv | p. 335 |
| Two-dimensional arrays | p. 337 |
| Matrix multiplication | p. 339 |
| Magic squares | p. 340 |
| Enumerated types - enum | p. 344 |
| The goto statement | p. 349 |
| const and volatile | p. 349 |
| Exercises 11 | p. 350 |
| Appendices | |
| List of C keywords | p. 353 |
| Differences between ANSI C and traditional C | p. 354 |
| ASCII character set | p. 357 |
| Index | p. 359 |
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