C Programming Pocket Primer

Name: C Programming Pocket Primer
Author: Oswald Campesato
ISBN: 9781683923886

by Oswald Campesato

an item in the Pocket Primer Series

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C Programming Pocket Primer

by Oswald Campesato

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As part of the Pocket Primer series, this book provides an overview of the major concepts to program in the language of C. Companion files with source code from the book and figures are included. FEATURES: Provides an overview of the most important C programming techniques Covers up-to-date information regarding the C11 standard Includes two chapters on pointers Contains companion files with source code from the book eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected].

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Preface	p. xiii
Introduction to C	p. 1
Command Line Tools	p. 2
The gcc Compiler	p. 2
Useful Switches for the gcc Command (optional)	p. 3
The lint-related Utilities (optional)	p. 4
Editors and IDEs	p. 4
What is C?	p. 5
What is Special About C?	p. 5
Major Revisions to C	p. 6
A High-Level View of C Programs	p. 7
The Structure of C Programs	p. 7
Coding Guidelines	p. 7
Keywords in C	p. 8
A Hello World Program in C	p. 8
C Header Files and Libraries	p. 9
Valid Syntax for the main () Function	p. 9
C Program Syntax	p. 10
Compiling C Programs	p. 10
Variable Names in C	p. 12
Assignment Statements	p. 12
Indentation and Code Format	p. 13
The printf () Function	p. 14
Data Types in C	p. 15
The sizeof () Operator in C	p. 15
Operators in C	p. 16
Arithmetic Operators	p. 16
Increment/Decrement Operators	p. 17
Ternary Operator	p. 18
Calculating Ceiling and Floor Values	p. 19
Calculating Absolute Values	p. 20
Calculating Trigonometric Values in C	p. 21
Working with Different Bases in C	p. 21
Working with the char Type in C	p. 22
What are C Arrays?	p. 23
Adding the Numbers in an Array	p. 23
Summary	p. 24
Conditional Logic and Simple Tasks	p. 25
Comments in C Programs	p. 25
Simple Conditional Logic	p. 26
Conditional Logic with Logical Errors	p. 27
Arithmetic Operators and Conditional Logic	p. 28
Compound if-else Statements	p. 29
What is "Short Circuiting"?	p. 30
Ranking Numbers with if-else Statements	p. 31
Sequential if Statements	p. 32
Nested if-else Statements	p. 33
Scope of Variables in C	p. 34
Global Variables in C Programs	p. 34
Global Versus Local Variables	p. 34
Type Casting in C	p. 35
Integer Promotion	p. 36
The strcpy () and strncpy () Functions in C	p. 37
Strings and String-related Functions	p. 38
The strcpy () Function	p. 39
Handling User Input in C	p. 41
The get char () & put char () Functions: Single Character Functions	p. 41
The scanf () and printf () Functions: Multiple Characters	p. 41
C11 Compliance	p. 43
Checking for C11 Compliance	p. 44
What about C17 Compliance?	p. 45
The fgets () Function (C11 Compliant)	p. 45
The gets () Function (not C11 Compliant)	p. 46
Reading a Single Character from the Command Line	p. 47
Reading an Unformatted Line from the Command Line	p. 47
Reading a Formatted Line from the Command Line	p. 49
The Behavior of the scanf () Function (optional)	p. 50
Reading Multiple Strings from the Command Line	p. 51
User Input for Numeric Calculations	p. 52
Stdin, Stdout, and Stderr	p. 54
Summary	p. 54
Loops and Arrays	p. 55
Working with for Loops	p. 55
Working with Break and Continue in for Loops	p. 56
Checking for Leap Years	p. 57
Checking Alphabetic Types	p. 58
Counting Uppercase and Lowercase Characters	p. 59
Checking Character Types	p. 60
Working with Arrays	p. 61
Initializing Arrays	p. 62
Array Values	p. 62
C Functions and Arrays	p. 63
Multi-Dimensional Arrays	p. 63
Calculating the Transpose of a Square Matrix	p. 65
Linear Search in Arrays	p. 66
Reversing an Array of Numbers	p. 67
Finding the Maximum and Minimum in Arrays	p. 68
Deleting an Element from an Array	p. 69
Strings and for Loops	p. 70
Counting Words in a Line of Text	p. 72
Working with Nested for Loops	p. 73
Working with while Loops	p. 74
Reading an Entire Line from the Command Line	p. 74
The switch Statement	p. 75
Working with Arrays of Numbers	p. 76
Working with Arrays of Strings	p. 77
Using a while loop to Find the Divisors of a Number	p. 78
Using a while loop to Find Prime Numbers	p. 79
Summary	p. 80
Functions in C	p. 81
Working with Built-in Functions in C	p. 81
Pass by Reference versus Pass by Value	p. 82
Built-in Character Functions	p. 82
Converting Between Data Types	p. 83
Defining a Simple Custom Function	p. 83
Function Prototypes	p. 84
Function Parameters in C Functions	p. 84
C99 Syntax for User-Defined Functions in C	p. 85
K&R Style Function Definitions	p. 86
Converting Strings to Integers and Float Values	p. 87
Printing a String to a Buffer with sprintf ()	p. 88
Buffer Manipulation Functions	p. 89
Passing a One-Dimensional Array as an Argument	p. 90
Finding a Character in a String	p. 91
Converting Strings to Decimal Values	p. 92
Display a List of Prime Numbers	p. 93
What is Recursion?	p. 95
Calculating Factorial Values	p. 95
Calculating Fibonacci Numbers via Recursion	p. 96
Calculating the Power of a Number via Recursion	p. 97
Calculating the Number of Digits of a Number via Recursion	p. 98
Calculating the Sum of the Digits of a Number via Recursion	p. 99
Calculating the GCD of Two Numbers via Recursion	p. 99
Calculating the LCM of Two Numbers via Recursion	p. 101
Summary	p. 102
Working with Pointers in C	p. 103
What are Pointers?	p. 103
Simple Examples of Pointers	p. 104
Const Pointers	p. 106
Pointers to Integer Variables	p. 106
Multiple Pointers and Integer Variables	p. 109
Pointers and Character Strings	p. 109
Displaying Substrings of a String	p. 111
Display Command Line Arguments in C	p. 112
Incrementing Pointers: Memory Location Versus Value	p. 113
Pointers and Arrays	p. 114
Pointers, Arrays, and Addresses	p. 116
Pointer Arithmetic	p. 117
Calculating the Transpose of a Square Matrix	p. 118
Pointers and Strings	p. 119
Pointers and Built-in String Manipulation Functions	p. 120
While Loops and Pointers to Strings	p. 121
Counting Vowels and Consonants in a Text String	p. 122
Finding a Word in a Text String in C	p. 124
Searching a Word in a Text String in C	p. 125
Concatenating Two Strings in C	p. 126
Summary	p. 127
Working with Pointers	p. 129
Comparing Two Strings in C	p. 129
Using strtok () to Tokenize a String	p. 131
Pointers, Strings, and Palindromes	p. 132
Pass by Reference Versus Value	p. 133
Pass an Array by Pointer	p. 135
A for Loop with Pointers to Numbers	p. 136
Pointers, Loops, and Divisors of a Number	p. 137
Pointers and Arrays of Numbers	p. 138
Array of Pointers	p. 139
Pointers and Functions	p. 140
Pointers and Arrays of Decimals	p. 141
"Reversing" an Array of Numbers	p. 142
Memory Allocation Functions in C	p. 144
The Built-in malloc () C Function	p. 144
Jagged Arrays	p. 145
User Input, Pointers, malloc (), and free ()	p. 147
Heap versus Stack	p. 148
Uppercase and Lowercase Strings in C	p. 148
Reversing a String	p. 149
Finding Uppercase and Lowercase Letters	p. 150
Removing Whitespaces from a String	p. 152
Pointers, Strings, and Character Counts	p. 153
Pointers to Functions of Type Void	p. 156
Pointers to Non-Void Functions	p. 157
Function Pointers as Arguments	p. 158
Pointers to Pointers	p. 160
Summary	p. 161
Miscellaneous Topics	p. 163
Symbolic Constants	p. 163
Working with Macros in C	p. 164
Other Operators in C	p. 165
Bitwise Operators	p. 165
Logical Operators	p. 166
Comma Operator	p. 166
Cumulative Code Sample	p. 166
The Bubble Sort Algorithm	p. 168
What is a C struct?	p. 169
An Example of a C struct	p. 170
A Pointer to a C struct	p. 171
Nested C Structs	p. 172
An Array of C Structs	p. 173
The strftime () and strptime () Functions with Dates (optional)	p. 175
Singly Linked Lists in C (optional)	p. 177
Unions in C	p. 178
Combining a union and a struct in C	p. 179
Bitfields in C	p. 181
Display Environment Variables in C	p. 182
Set Environment Variables in C	p. 183
Storage Class Specifiers in C	p. 184
How Write Complex Code with Pointers	p. 185
Error Handling in C	p. 186
The errno Global Variable	p. 186
The perror () and strerror () Functions	p. 186
How to Exit from an Error	p. 187
System Calls in C (optional)	p. 188
Removing a File	p. 188
Listing the Files in a Directory	p. 189
Defining Custom Functions in Multiple Files (optional)	p. 190
Standard Header Files and Libraries	p. 192
Standard Header Files (Unix-like Systems)	p. 192
Commonly Used Header Files	p. 193
Standard Libraries	p. 193
Summary	p. 194
Appendix The make Utility	p. 195
What is the make Utility?	p. 195
What is in Makefile?	p. 196
Useful Unix Commands for Libraries	p. 196
Examples of the ar Command	p. 197
The ranlib Command	p. 197
The nm Command	p. 197
Some Simple Makefiles	p. 198
A Makefile for C Programs	p. 199
Big Make and Little Make	p. 200
A Makefile with Macros	p. 201
A Make file with Standard Targets	p. 202
Command Line Switches for Makefiles	p. 203
How do Makefiles Work?	p. 203
Multiple Source Files and the make Utility	p. 204
Macros for Multiple C Files	p. 206
Other Macros in Makefiles	p. 207
Automatic Variables	p. 208
Creating Multiple Executables in a Makefile	p. 208
Other Types of Targets in a Makefile	p. 209
Specifying Headers and Libraries in a Makefile	p. 210
Specifying Libraries	p. 211
Dummy Targets in a Makefile	p. 211
Including a Makefile in Another Makefile	p. 211
Creating a Library Archive from Object Files	p. 213
Creating an Archive Library in a Shell Script	p. 214
Summary	p. 214
Index	p. 215
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Preface	p. xiii
Introduction to C	p. 1
Command Line Tools	p. 2
The gcc Compiler	p. 2
Useful Switches for the gcc Command (optional)	p. 3
The lint-related Utilities (optional)	p. 4
Editors and IDEs	p. 4
What is C?	p. 5
What is Special About C?	p. 5
Major Revisions to C	p. 6
A High-Level View of C Programs	p. 7
The Structure of C Programs	p. 7
Coding Guidelines	p. 7
Keywords in C	p. 8
A Hello World Program in C	p. 8
C Header Files and Libraries	p. 9
Valid Syntax for the main () Function	p. 9
C Program Syntax	p. 10
Compiling C Programs	p. 10
Variable Names in C	p. 12
Assignment Statements	p. 12
Indentation and Code Format	p. 13
The printf () Function	p. 14
Data Types in C	p. 15
The sizeof () Operator in C	p. 15
Operators in C	p. 16
Arithmetic Operators	p. 16
Increment/Decrement Operators	p. 17
Ternary Operator	p. 18
Calculating Ceiling and Floor Values	p. 19
Calculating Absolute Values	p. 20
Calculating Trigonometric Values in C	p. 21
Working with Different Bases in C	p. 21
Working with the char Type in C	p. 22
What are C Arrays?	p. 23
Adding the Numbers in an Array	p. 23
Summary	p. 24
Conditional Logic and Simple Tasks	p. 25
Comments in C Programs	p. 25
Simple Conditional Logic	p. 26
Conditional Logic with Logical Errors	p. 27
Arithmetic Operators and Conditional Logic	p. 28
Compound if-else Statements	p. 29
What is "Short Circuiting"?	p. 30
Ranking Numbers with if-else Statements	p. 31
Sequential if Statements	p. 32
Nested if-else Statements	p. 33
Scope of Variables in C	p. 34
Global Variables in C Programs	p. 34
Global Versus Local Variables	p. 34
Type Casting in C	p. 35
Integer Promotion	p. 36
The strcpy () and strncpy () Functions in C	p. 37
Strings and String-related Functions	p. 38
The strcpy () Function	p. 39
Handling User Input in C	p. 41
The get char () & put char () Functions: Single Character Functions	p. 41
The scanf () and printf () Functions: Multiple Characters	p. 41
C11 Compliance	p. 43
Checking for C11 Compliance	p. 44
What about C17 Compliance?	p. 45
The fgets () Function (C11 Compliant)	p. 45
The gets () Function (not C11 Compliant)	p. 46
Reading a Single Character from the Command Line	p. 47
Reading an Unformatted Line from the Command Line	p. 47
Reading a Formatted Line from the Command Line	p. 49
The Behavior of the scanf () Function (optional)	p. 50
Reading Multiple Strings from the Command Line	p. 51
User Input for Numeric Calculations	p. 52
Stdin, Stdout, and Stderr	p. 54
Summary	p. 54
Loops and Arrays	p. 55
Working with for Loops	p. 55
Working with Break and Continue in for Loops	p. 56
Checking for Leap Years	p. 57
Checking Alphabetic Types	p. 58
Counting Uppercase and Lowercase Characters	p. 59
Checking Character Types	p. 60
Working with Arrays	p. 61
Initializing Arrays	p. 62
Array Values	p. 62
C Functions and Arrays	p. 63
Multi-Dimensional Arrays	p. 63
Calculating the Transpose of a Square Matrix	p. 65
Linear Search in Arrays	p. 66
Reversing an Array of Numbers	p. 67
Finding the Maximum and Minimum in Arrays	p. 68
Deleting an Element from an Array	p. 69
Strings and for Loops	p. 70
Counting Words in a Line of Text	p. 72
Working with Nested for Loops	p. 73
Working with while Loops	p. 74
Reading an Entire Line from the Command Line	p. 74
The switch Statement	p. 75
Working with Arrays of Numbers	p. 76
Working with Arrays of Strings	p. 77
Using a while loop to Find the Divisors of a Number	p. 78
Using a while loop to Find Prime Numbers	p. 79
Summary	p. 80
Functions in C	p. 81
Working with Built-in Functions in C	p. 81
Pass by Reference versus Pass by Value	p. 82
Built-in Character Functions	p. 82
Converting Between Data Types	p. 83
Defining a Simple Custom Function	p. 83
Function Prototypes	p. 84
Function Parameters in C Functions	p. 84
C99 Syntax for User-Defined Functions in C	p. 85
K&R Style Function Definitions	p. 86
Converting Strings to Integers and Float Values	p. 87
Printing a String to a Buffer with sprintf ()	p. 88
Buffer Manipulation Functions	p. 89
Passing a One-Dimensional Array as an Argument	p. 90
Finding a Character in a String	p. 91
Converting Strings to Decimal Values	p. 92
Display a List of Prime Numbers	p. 93
What is Recursion?	p. 95
Calculating Factorial Values	p. 95
Calculating Fibonacci Numbers via Recursion	p. 96
Calculating the Power of a Number via Recursion	p. 97
Calculating the Number of Digits of a Number via Recursion	p. 98
Calculating the Sum of the Digits of a Number via Recursion	p. 99
Calculating the GCD of Two Numbers via Recursion	p. 99
Calculating the LCM of Two Numbers via Recursion	p. 101
Summary	p. 102
Working with Pointers in C	p. 103
What are Pointers?	p. 103
Simple Examples of Pointers	p. 104
Const Pointers	p. 106
Pointers to Integer Variables	p. 106
Multiple Pointers and Integer Variables	p. 109
Pointers and Character Strings	p. 109
Displaying Substrings of a String	p. 111
Display Command Line Arguments in C	p. 112
Incrementing Pointers: Memory Location Versus Value	p. 113
Pointers and Arrays	p. 114
Pointers, Arrays, and Addresses	p. 116
Pointer Arithmetic	p. 117
Calculating the Transpose of a Square Matrix	p. 118
Pointers and Strings	p. 119
Pointers and Built-in String Manipulation Functions	p. 120
While Loops and Pointers to Strings	p. 121
Counting Vowels and Consonants in a Text String	p. 122
Finding a Word in a Text String in C	p. 124
Searching a Word in a Text String in C	p. 125
Concatenating Two Strings in C	p. 126
Summary	p. 127
Working with Pointers	p. 129
Comparing Two Strings in C	p. 129
Using strtok () to Tokenize a String	p. 131
Pointers, Strings, and Palindromes	p. 132
Pass by Reference Versus Value	p. 133
Pass an Array by Pointer	p. 135
A for Loop with Pointers to Numbers	p. 136
Pointers, Loops, and Divisors of a Number	p. 137
Pointers and Arrays of Numbers	p. 138
Array of Pointers	p. 139
Pointers and Functions	p. 140
Pointers and Arrays of Decimals	p. 141
"Reversing" an Array of Numbers	p. 142
Memory Allocation Functions in C	p. 144
The Built-in malloc () C Function	p. 144
Jagged Arrays	p. 145
User Input, Pointers, malloc (), and free ()	p. 147
Heap versus Stack	p. 148
Uppercase and Lowercase Strings in C	p. 148
Reversing a String	p. 149
Finding Uppercase and Lowercase Letters	p. 150
Removing Whitespaces from a String	p. 152
Pointers, Strings, and Character Counts	p. 153
Pointers to Functions of Type Void	p. 156
Pointers to Non-Void Functions	p. 157
Function Pointers as Arguments	p. 158
Pointers to Pointers	p. 160
Summary	p. 161
Miscellaneous Topics	p. 163
Symbolic Constants	p. 163
Working with Macros in C	p. 164
Other Operators in C	p. 165
Bitwise Operators	p. 165
Logical Operators	p. 166
Comma Operator	p. 166
Cumulative Code Sample	p. 166
The Bubble Sort Algorithm	p. 168
What is a C struct?	p. 169
An Example of a C struct	p. 170
A Pointer to a C struct	p. 171
Nested C Structs	p. 172
An Array of C Structs	p. 173
The strftime () and strptime () Functions with Dates (optional)	p. 175
Singly Linked Lists in C (optional)	p. 177
Unions in C	p. 178
Combining a union and a struct in C	p. 179
Bitfields in C	p. 181
Display Environment Variables in C	p. 182
Set Environment Variables in C	p. 183
Storage Class Specifiers in C	p. 184
How Write Complex Code with Pointers	p. 185
Error Handling in C	p. 186
The errno Global Variable	p. 186
The perror () and strerror () Functions	p. 186
How to Exit from an Error	p. 187
System Calls in C (optional)	p. 188
Removing a File	p. 188
Listing the Files in a Directory	p. 189
Defining Custom Functions in Multiple Files (optional)	p. 190
Standard Header Files and Libraries	p. 192
Standard Header Files (Unix-like Systems)	p. 192
Commonly Used Header Files	p. 193
Standard Libraries	p. 193
Summary	p. 194
Appendix The make Utility	p. 195
What is the make Utility?	p. 195
What is in Makefile?	p. 196
Useful Unix Commands for Libraries	p. 196
Examples of the ar Command	p. 197
The ranlib Command	p. 197
The nm Command	p. 197
Some Simple Makefiles	p. 198
A Makefile for C Programs	p. 199
Big Make and Little Make	p. 200
A Makefile with Macros	p. 201
A Make file with Standard Targets	p. 202
Command Line Switches for Makefiles	p. 203
How do Makefiles Work?	p. 203
Multiple Source Files and the make Utility	p. 204
Macros for Multiple C Files	p. 206
Other Macros in Makefiles	p. 207
Automatic Variables	p. 208
Creating Multiple Executables in a Makefile	p. 208
Other Types of Targets in a Makefile	p. 209
Specifying Headers and Libraries in a Makefile	p. 210
Specifying Libraries	p. 211
Dummy Targets in a Makefile	p. 211
Including a Makefile in Another Makefile	p. 211
Creating a Library Archive from Object Files	p. 213
Creating an Archive Library in a Shell Script	p. 214
Summary	p. 214
Index	p. 215
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