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Extreme C

By : Kamran Amini
5 (1)
Book Image

Extreme C

5 (1)
By: Kamran Amini

Overview of this book

There’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer. Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications. C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing. In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)

Calculator project

We are dedicating a separate section to explain the purpose of the calculator project. It is a lengthy example and thus it will be helpful to have a firm grounding before diving into it. The project should help you to achieve the following goals:

  • Observe a fully functional example that has a number of simple and well-defined functionalities.
  • Extract common parts among the various types of sockets and channels and have them as some reusable libraries. This reduces the amount of code we write significantly, and from a learning point of view, it shows you the boundaries that are common between various types of sockets and channels.
  • Maintain communication using a well-defined application protocol. Ordinary socket programming examples lack this very important feature. They generally address very simple, and usually one-time, communication scenarios between a client and its server.
  • Work on an example that has all the ingredients required...