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Learn essential C concepts such as variables, data structures, functions, loops, and pointers

Grasp the core programming aspects that form the base of many modern programming languages

Work with updated code samples and cover array declaration and initialization in detail in this new edition

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you're an absolute beginner who has basic familiarity with operating a computer, this book will help you learn the most fundamental concepts and practices that you need to know to become a successful C programmer. If you're an experienced programmer, you'll find the full range of C syntax as well as common C idioms covered in the book useful.

What you will learn

Implement fundamental programming concepts through C programs

Understand the importance of creating complex data types and the functions to manipulate them

Develop good coding practices and learn to write clean code

Validate your programs before developing them further

Use the C Standard Library functions and understand why it is advantageous

Build and run a multi-file program with Make

Get an overview of how C has changed since its introduction and where it is going

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Rachel barber Oct 30, 2022

starts from the ground up avoids getting bogged down early in the book and teaches at a good pace for beginners.good idioms and some history here and there with well thought out examples for intermediate readers.

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Sarthak Nov 27, 2022

Sometime It's worthwhile to understand past data to connect the dots for every "WHY ?" questionsarises out of curiosity and for sake of understanding that topic thoroughly.Thank you Jeff for keeping Historical Notes.I loved the used analogies and practical examples to make us understand topic thoroughly.

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kfay Nov 02, 2022

I found this book to be very easy to read and follow. The advice given in the Preface was important not only for learning C from this book effectively but also to learn from any other. Don't skip the preface.The source code formatting is sometimes a bit wonky (line breaks in the wrong places cause the most compiler errors) which is sometimes frustrating. But I was thankful that all ofsource code in the book is also available for download from Github. That made figuringout where I went wrong with my own version of each program a bit easier.I noticed that the 2nd edition contains additional chapters, one of which includes two complete but simple card games. It seems as if the entire book leads up to being able to build and understand these two complete programs.Is this the only book you'll need to learn C? No, I don't think so, but after working through it, I think I am now well prepared to undertake the next level of learning C. There are also lots of example programs which may come in handy later.

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Tim Kellermann Dec 01, 2022

After reading this book, I can confidently say it contains all the information one would need to drastically improve their C programming knowledge. From beginners downloading and configuring a compiler to an intermediate level with pointer and memory allocation, this book has it all. I was pleasantly surprised by the explanation and examples of pointers. Pointers can be a serious sore spot for many new programmers, but this book has an eloquent explanation that I found extremely helpful. Another big takeaway for me was that this book contains information on good programming practices such as creating a multi-file program that is easily comprehensible for others. Learning about good programming practices will benefit every new programmer when entering the software development or embedded systems industries. Therefore, I will be recommending this book to all who are interested in learning C or embedded systems. Thank you and happy coding!

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Krishnan Raghavan Nov 14, 2022

I am coming back to C Programming language after a very long time and this book helped me with getting up and running quite nicely. This book is not specific either for beginners or advanced programmers but kind of touches the sweet spot where both kinds of readers can benefit from the book. For beginners, this book handholds and teaches a new programming language by covering the theory part with many code examples that should be typed and practiced. Advanced programmers can skip the theory part and read and understand the code along with practicing the same for consolidating their knowledge. The questions at the end of each chapter ensure that the topic covered in the chapter is well understood by the reader. The author suggests that experienced programmers can skim through the theory part but I would advise against the same. If nothing else, it can work as a refresher to the concepts that we are aware of but over a period of time kind of forgotten.This book is divided into four parts with each part covering a specific aspect of C programming. The first part covers the fundamentals of C programming where the author starts with writing a simple Hello World program and then introduces more basic concepts like what is the structure of a program and data types in the subsequent chapters. Other topics that are covered as part of this block are a few important topics like loops, iterations and enumerations.Part 2 covers more advanced topics and complex data types where the author takes the reader through a journey of understanding what are structures and how to create and use them in your program. Arrays are also introduced in this part of the book covering both single as well as multi-dimensional arrays. Chapter 13 onward, the reader is introduced to very important C concepts of Pointers and how pointers work with arrays and strings. Pointers are one of the most difficult topics and the author has done a reasonably good job of explaining the same. In my personal opinion, Pointers should be a book by itself.Part 3 covers Memory Manipulations techniques where the author explains how memory allocation works.Part 4 covers the different Input and Output formats that are available in C including covering the topic of how to read and write from a file.Part 5 basically helps the reader understand how to create and manage programs consisting of multiple files. i.e. instead of writing a program that has a single source file, how relevant part of the program can be called from multiple source files making it easier to maintain an application.The last chapter helps reader consolidate their knowledge by writing a game using all the techniques learnt from different topics.At the end of each chapter, there are questions which help consolidate the lessons learnt in that particular chapter which ideally should not be skipped. There is a concise summary at the end of each chapter.I found the book to be very well written as it takes the user on a journey about learning C programming. Kudos to Jeff Szuhay for writing such a wonderful book.

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Learn C Programming: A beginner's guide to learning the most powerful and general-purpose programming language with ease , Second Edition

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