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Zusatztext 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(R) 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 Informationen zum Autor Steve Oualline lives in Southern California, where he works as a software engineer for a major phone company. In his free time he is a real engineer on the Poway Midland Railroad. Steve has written almost a dozen books on programming and Linux software. His web site is http://www.oualline.com . Klappentext Steve Oualline lives in Southern California! where he works as a software engineer for a major phone company. In his free time he is a real engineer on the Poway Midland Railroad. Steve has written almost a dozen books on programming and Linux software. His web site is http://www.oualline.com . Zusammenfassung This volume aims to teach not only the mechanics of programming, but also how to create programs that are easy to read, debug, and update. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; How This Book is Organized; Chapter by Chapter; Notes on the Third Edition; Font Conventions; Obtaining Source Code; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments to the Third Edition;Basics; Chapter 1: What Is C?; 1.1 How Programming Works; 1.2 Brief History of C; 1.3 How C Works; 1.4 How to Learn C; Chapter 2: Basics of Program Writing; 2.1 Programs from Conception to Execution; 2.2 Creating a Real Program; 2.3 Creating a Program Using a Command-Line Compiler; 2.4 Creating a Program Using an Integrated Development Environment; 2.5 Getting Help on UNIX; 2.6 Getting Help in an Integrated Development Environment; 2.7 IDE Cookbooks; 2.8 Programming Exercises; Chapter 3: Style; 3.1 Common Coding Practices; 3.2 Coding Religion; 3.3 Indentation and Code Format; 3.4 Clarity; 3.5 Simplicity; 3.6 Summary; Chapter 4: Basic Declarations and Expressions; 4.1 Elements of a Program; 4.2 Basic Program Structure; 4.3 Simple Expressions; 4.4 Variables and Storage; 4.5 Variable Declarations; 4.6 Integers; 4.7 Assignment Statements; 4.8 printf Function; 4.9 Floating Point; 4.10 Floating Point Versus Integer Divide; 4.11 Characters; 4.12 Answers; 4.13 Programming Exercises; Chapter 5: Arrays, Qualifiers, and Reading Numbers; 5.1 Arrays; 5.2 Strings; 5.3 Reading Strings; 5.4 Multidimensional Arrays; 5.5 Reading Numbers; 5.6 Initializing Variables; 5.7 Types of Integers; 5.8 Types of Floats; 5.9 Constant Declarations; 5.10 Hexadecimal and Octal Constants; 5.11 Operators for Performing Shortcuts; 5.12 Side Effects; 5.13 ++x or x++; 5.14 More Side-Effect Problems; 5.15 Answers; 5.16 Programming Exercises; Chapter 6: Decision and Control Statements; 6.1 if Statement; 6.2 else Statement; 6.3 How Not to Use strcmp; 6.4 Looping Statements; 6.5 while Statement; 6.6 break Statement; 6.7 continue Statement; 6.8 Assignment Anywhere Side Effect; 6.9 Answer; 6.10 Programming Exercises; Chapter 7: Programming Process; 7.1 Setting Up; 7.2 Specification; 7.3 Code Design; 7.4 Prototype; 7.5 Makefile; 7.6 Testing; 7.7 Debugging; 7.8 Maintenance; 7.9 Revisions; 7.10 Electronic Archaeology; 7.11 Marking Up the Program; 7.12 Using the Debugger; 7.13 Text Editor as a Browser; 7.14 Add Comments; 7.15 Programming Exercises;Simple Programming; Chapter 8: More Control Statements; 8.1 for Statement; 8.2 switch Statement; 8.3 switch, break, and continue; 8.4 Answers; 8.5 Programming Exercises; Chapter 9: Variable Scope and Functions...
