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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

The linked list dynamic data structure

The most basic dynamic data structure is the linked list. A linked list is the basis for other dynamic structures, such as stacks, queues, and deques. A stack conforms to the rules that each new element must be added to the front of the list, and that each element can only be removed from the front of the list. A queue conforms to the rules that each new element must be added to the back of the list, and that each element can only be removed from the front of the list. A deque is a generalized form of both a stack and queue and has the operations of both of them.

We will implement a simple linked list and then test it from within the main() function. Later, we will employ this list structure and its routines when we return to our carddeck.c program in Chapter 24Working with Multi-File Programs.

Create a file called linklisttester.c. It is in this single file that we will create our linked list structure, operations...

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