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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 concluded our exploration of topics in OOP, picking up from abstraction and moving on by showing the similarities between C and C++ regarding object-oriented concepts.

The following topics were discussed as part of this chapter:

  • Abstract classes and interfaces were initially discussed. Using them, we can have an interface or a partially abstract class, which could be used to create concrete child classes with polymorphic and different behaviors.
  • We then compared the output of the techniques we used in C to bring in some OOP features, with the output of what g++ produces. This was to demonstrate how similar the results are. We concluded that the techniques that we employed can be very similar in their outcomes.
  • We discussed virtual tables in greater depth.
  • We showed how pure virtual functions (which is a C++ concept but does have a C counterpart) can be used to declare virtual behaviors that have no default definition.

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