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Practical C Programming

By : B. M. Harwani
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Practical C Programming

By: B. M. Harwani

Overview of this book

Used in everything from microcontrollers to operating systems, C is a popular programming language among developers because of its flexibility and versatility. This book helps you get hands-on with various tasks, covering the fundamental as well as complex C programming concepts that are essential for making real-life applications. You’ll start with recipes for arrays, strings, user-defined functions, and pre-processing directives. Once you’re familiar with the basic features, you’ll gradually move on to learning pointers, file handling, concurrency, networking, and inter-process communication (IPC). The book then illustrates how to carry out searching and arrange data using different sorting techniques, before demonstrating the implementation of data structures such as stacks and queues. Later, you’ll learn interesting programming features such as using graphics for drawing and animation, and the application of general-purpose utilities. Finally, the book will take you through advanced concepts such as low-level programming, embedded software, IoT, and security in coding, as well as techniques for improving code performance. By the end of this book, you'll have a clear understanding of C programming, and have the skills you need to develop robust apps.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Updating information in the database

In this recipe, we will learn how to update information in a database table. We assume that a users database table already exists, comprising of three columns—email_address, password, and address_of_delivery (please see the beginning of this chapter, where we learned to create a database and a table in it). On entering an email address, all the current information of the user (that is, their password and address of delivery) will be displayed. Thereafter, the user will be prompted to enter a new password and address of delivery. This new information will be updated against the current information in the table.

How to do it…

  1. Initialize a MYSQL object:
mysql_init(NULL);

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