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Extreme C

By : Kamran Amini
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we went through the following topics:

  • We introduced various types of communications, channels, mediums, and sockets as part of our review of IPC techniques.
  • We explored a calculator project by describing its application protocol and the serialization algorithm that it uses.
  • We demonstrated how UDS can be used to establish a client-server connection, and we showed how they are used in the calculator project.
  • We discussed the stream and datagram channels established using Unix domain sockets, separately.
  • We demonstrated how TCP and UDP sockets can be used to make a client-server IPC channel, and we used them in the calculator example.

The next chapter is about integrating of C with other programming languages. By doing so, we can have a C library loaded and used in another programming language like Java. As part of the next chapter, we cover integration with C++, Java, Python, and Golang.