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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

Introducing operations on characters

Since characters are internally represented as integers, any of the integer operations can be applied to them too. However, only a couple of operations make sense to apply to characters—the additive operators (that is, addition and subtraction). While multiplying and dividing characters are legal, those operations never produce any practical results:

  • char - char yields int.
  • char + int yields char.
  • char - int yields char.

Remember that a char is only one unsigned byte, so any addition or subtraction outside of the range of 0..255 will yield unexpected results due to the truncation of high-order bits.

A common use of the addition and subtraction of characters is theconversion of a given ASCII character to uppercase or lowercase. If the character is uppercase, then simply adding 32 to it will give you its lowercase version. If the character is lowercase, then simply subtracting...