C by Example

By: Noel Kalicharan

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Paperback | 14 November 1994

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At present, C is one of the most popular programming languages. It is not only flexible, but efficient and highly portable, and is now used for writing many different kinds of programs, from compilers and assemblers to spreadsheets and games. Assuming only familiarity with basic programming concepts such as variables and looping, this book covers all aspects of the C language, including a detailed look at file handling and pointers. The text is self-contained and contains a wealth of examples and exercises that test the understanding of the concepts developed in each chapter. Anybody who wishes to come to grips with the art of programming in C will find this a most valuable book.

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"...provides a good introduction to programming in C." Michael Marcotty, Computing Reviews

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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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