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Learn C Programming. - Second Edition

By : Jeff Szuhay
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Learn C Programming. - Second Edition

By: Jeff Szuhay

Overview of this book

The foundation for many modern programming languages such as C++, C#, JavaScript, and Go, C is widely used as a system programming language as well as for embedded systems and high-performance computing. With this book, you'll be able to get up to speed with C in no time. The book takes you through basic programming concepts and shows you how to implement them in the C programming language. Throughout the book, you’ll create and run programs that demonstrate essential C concepts, such as program structure with functions, control structures such as loops and conditional statements, and complex data structures. As you make progress, you’ll get to grips with in-code documentation, testing, and validation methods. This new edition expands upon the use of enumerations, arrays, and additional C features, and provides two working programs based on the code used in the book. What's more, this book uses the method of intentional failure, where you'll develop a working program and then purposely break it to see what happens, thereby learning how to recognize possible mistakes when they happen. By the end of this C programming book, you’ll have developed basic programming skills in C that can be easily applied to other programming languages and have gained a solid foundation for you to build on as a programmer.
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
1
Part 1: C Fundamentals
10
Part 2: Complex Data Types
19
Part 3: Memory Manipulation
22
Part 4: Input and Output
28
Part 5: Building Blocks for Larger Programs

Going further with make

We have only touched the surface of what is possible with make. We have only explored a few simple features. It is an incredibly powerful and flexible tool that has been in widespread use for nearly as long as C has existed. There are many more features, and there are many more ways it can be used than just building C programs. There are many online tutorials and books to help you go further with make if you have the need and are interested. However, make, like C, is not perfect and has its limitations.

There are alternative build systems for C and C++. Most Integrated Developer Environments (IDEs) have their own build system integrated into each project. Other languages such as Java, Go, and Rust have their own build tools. Some interpreted languages such as Python, Ruby, and JavaScript don’t even require a build system because the latest version of every file is processed when the program runs.