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Learn C Programming

You're reading from   Learn C Programming A beginner's guide to learning the most powerful and general-purpose programming language with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078450
Length 742 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (38) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: C Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Running Hello, World! FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Program Structure 4. Chapter 3: Working with Basic Data Types 5. Chapter 4: Using Variables and Assignments 6. Chapter 5: Exploring Operators and Expressions 7. Chapter 6: Exploring Conditional Program Flow 8. Chapter 7: Exploring Loops and Iterations 9. Chapter 8: Creating and Using Enumerations 10. Part 2: Complex Data Types
11. Chapter 9: Creating and Using Structures 12. Chapter 10: Creating Custom Data Types with typedef 13. Chapter 11: Working with Arrays 14. Chapter 12: Working with Multi-Dimensional Arrays 15. Chapter 13: Using Pointers 16. Chapter 14: Understanding Arrays and Pointers 17. Chapter 15: Working with Strings 18. Chapter 16: Creating and Using More Complex Structures 19. Part 3: Memory Manipulation
20. Chapter 17: Understanding Memory Allocation and Lifetime 21. Chapter 18: Using Dynamic Memory Allocation 22. Part 4: Input and Output
23. Chapter 19: Exploring Formatted Output 24. Chapter 20: Getting Input from the Command Line 25. Chapter 21: Exploring Formatted Input 26. Chapter 22: Working with Files 27. Chapter 23: Using File Input and File Output 28. Part 5: Building Blocks for Larger Programs
29. Chapter 24: Working with Multi-File Programs 30. Chapter 25: Understanding Scope 31. Chapter 26: Building Multi-File Programs with Make 32. Chapter 27: Creating Two Card Programs 33. Epilogue 34. Assessments 35. Index 36. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Preparing dealer.c for make

Before turning our focus to make, we need to first revisit the header file organization we used in our dealer program. In that set of files, we took a simplistic approach where every source file included the same header file, dealer.h, which itself included all the header files from each of the source files. This was a shortcut that is not typical of most C source files. Including all the header files in a single header file and then only including that one file has limiting and possibly undesirable implications. First, doing this assumes that all source files are bound together and interdependent. Second, it means if any source file or header file changes, we must recompile all of the files to regenerate the program. For projects with many files, this means a lot of unnecessary work needs to be done; instead, we’d like to just compile the files that change and then link the unchanged and changed files together. We cannot do that with our previous...

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