On to C - Softcover

Winston, Patrick Henry

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ISBN 10: 020158042X ISBN 13: 9780201580426

Publisher: Pearson, 1994

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This book is a concise yet clear introduction to the C programming language. Practicing programmers can use this book to learn the essentials of the language without a lot of time-consuming overhead. Key concepts and techniques are learned in their natural order as features are added to a short yet representative C program. Also available: On to C++ and On to Java.

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Read this book if you want to add C to your programming-language repertoire. You can use this book to learn the essentials of the language and to preparefor real-world work.

You learn the key concepts in their natural order as features are added to a short yet representative C program. The final version of the program reads information from a file describing stock trades and predicts the next-day's price using a straight-line extrapolation, thereby reflecting the popularity of C in applications involving data analysis.

As you see the program evolve, you learn how to:

define functions
benefit from function abstraction
solve ordering problems with function prototypes
process data from files
create structures and objects
use pointer parameters to avoid argument copying
use pointer parameters to alter values
create new structure objects at run time
define constructors, readers, and writers
benefit from data abstraction
use enumerations and type synonyms to improve readability
use unions to capture class distinctions
use bits to record state information
prevent memory leaks
access command-like arguments
organize and compile multiple-file programs
and much more.

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Synopsis:

This book is a concise, yet clear introduction to the C programming language. Key concepts and techniques are learnt in their natural order as features are added to a short, yet representative C program. The final version of the program reads information from a file describing extrapolation, thereby reflecting the popularity of C in applications involving data analysis.

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