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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)

Epilogue

And the final words ...

If you are reading this, it means that our journey has come to an end! We went through several topics and concepts as part of this book, and I hope that the journey has made you a better C programmer. Of course, it cannot give you the experience; you must obtain that by working on various projects. The methods and tips we discussed in this book will ramp up your level of expertise, and this will enable you to work on more serious projects. Now you know more about software systems, from a broader point of view, and possess a top-notch knowledge about the internal workings.

Though this book was heavier and lengthier than your usual read, it still could not cover all the topics found within C, C++, and system programming. Therefore, a weight remains on my shoulders; the journey is not yet done! I would like to continue to work on more Extreme topics, maybe more specific areas, such as Asynchronous I/O, Advanced Data Structures, Socket Programming...