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Learn C Programming

By : Jeff Szuhay
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Learn C Programming

By: Jeff Szuhay

Overview of this book

C is a powerful general-purpose programming language that is excellent for beginners to learn. This book will introduce you to computer programming and software development using C. If you're an experienced developer, this book will help you to become familiar with the C programming language. This C programming book takes you through basic programming concepts and shows you how to implement them in C. Throughout the book, you'll create and run programs that make use of one or more C concepts, such as program structure with functions, data types, and conditional statements. You'll also see how to use looping and iteration, arrays, pointers, and strings. As you make progress, you'll cover code documentation, testing and validation methods, basic input/output, and how to write complete programs in C. By the end of the book, you'll have developed basic programming skills in C, that you can apply to other programming languages and will develop a solid foundation for you to advance as a programmer.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
1
Section 1: C Fundamentals
10
Section 2: Complex Data Types
19
Section 3: Memory Manipulation
22
Section 4: Input and Output
28
Section 5: Building Blocks for Larger Programs

Declaring operations on a linked list

Now that we have the required data structures defined, we can declare operations on those data structures. A data structure is defined by both the data it contains or represents and the operations that can be performed on it. The operations we will need to perform in order to manipulate a general linked list mechanism independently of the specific data contents of the list are as follows:

  1. Create a new LinkedList header that allocates and properly initializes the header record.
  2. Create a new ListNode element that allocates and properly initializes the node element. Once created, the node still isn't part of the list.
  3. Deletea node. This doesn't involve the list; typically, this will be done after a node is removed from the list.
  4. Insert a node either into the front or back of the list.
  5. Remove a node either from the front or back of the list and return that node to the caller...