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Extreme C

By : Kamran Amini
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Book Image

Extreme C

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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 (27 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we continued our exploration of topics in OOP, picking up from where we left off in the previous chapter. The following topics were discussed in this chapter:

  • We explained how inheritance works and looked at the two approaches that we can use to implement inheritance in C.
  • The first approach allows direct access to all the private attributes of the parent class, but the second approach has a more conservative approach, hiding the private attributes of the parent class.
  • We compared these approaches, and we saw that each of them can be suitable in some use cases.
  • Polymorphism was the next topic that we explored. To put it simply, it allows us to have different versions of the same behavior and invoke the correct behavior using the public API of an abstract supertype.
  • We saw how to write polymorphic code in C and saw how function pointers contribute to choosing the correct version of a particular behavior at runtime.

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