About the Book
A user-friendly, code-intensive introduction to C programming This edition includes case studies introducing applications and system programming. Like other texts of the Deitels' How to Program series, the book's modular presentation serves as a detailed beginner source of information for college students looking to embark on a career in coding, or instructors and software-development professionals seeking to learn how to program with C. The signature Deitel live-code approach presents concepts in the context of 142 full-working programs rather than incomplete snips of code. This gives you a chance to run each program as you study it and see how your learning applies to real-world programming scenarios.
Current standards, contemporary practice, and hands-on learning opportunities are integrated throughout the 9th Edition.
Table of Contents:
PART 1: (Introductory) Programming Fundamentals Quickstart
1. Introduction to Computers and C: Test-Driving Microsoft Visual Studio, Apple Xcode, GNU gcc, and GNU gcc in a Docker container
2. Intro to C Programming: Input, Output, Types, Arithmetic, Decision Making
3. Structured Program Development: Algorithmic Development, Problem Solving, if, if/else, while
4. Program Control: for, do/while, switch, break, continue, Logical Operators
5. Functions: Custom Functions, Simulation, Random-Number Generation, Enumerations, Function Call and Return Mechanism, Recursion, Recursive Factorial, Recursive Fibonacci
PART 2: (Intermediate) Arrays, Pointers, and Strings
6. Arrays: One- and Two-Dimensional Arrays, Passing Arrays to Functions, Searching, Sorting
7. Pointers: Pointers operators and, Pass-By-Value vs. Pass-By-Reference, Array and Pointer Relationship
8. Characters and Strings: C Standard Library String- and Character-Processing Functions
PART 3: (Intermediate) Formatted Input/Output, Structures, and File Processing
9. Formatted Input/Output: scanf and printf formatting
10. Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulation and Enumerations: Creating Custom Types with structs and unions, Bitwise Operators, Named Constants
11. File Processing: Streams, Text and Binary Files, CSV Files, Sequential and Random-Access Files
PART 4: (Advanced) Algorithms and Data Structures
12. Data Structures: Dynamic Memory Allocation and Deallocation, Lists, Stacks, Queues, Binary Trees
13. Computer-Science Thinking: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Insertion Sort, Selection Sort, Merge Sort, Additional Algorithms including Quicksort in the Exercises
PART 5: (Advanced) Preprocessor and Other Topics
14. Preprocessor: #include, Conditional Compilation, Macros with Arguments, Assertions
15. Other Topics: Variable-Length Argument Lists, Command-line Arguments, Multiple-Source-Pile Programs, extern, exit/atexit, calloc/realloc, goto, Numeric Literal Suffixes, Signal Handling
About the Author :
Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an MIT graduate with 41 years of experience in computing. Paul is one of the world's most experienced programming-languages trainers, having taught professional courses to software developers since 1992. He has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, industry, government and military clients internationally, including Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, UCLA and many more. He and his coauthor, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are among the world's best-selling programming-language textbook, professional book, video and interactive multimedia e-learning authors.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 59 years of experience in computing. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University; he studied computing in each of these programs before they spun off Computer Science programs. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels' publications have earned international recognition, with more than 100 translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered 100s of programming courses to academic, corporate, government and military clients.
