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| Preface | |
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| How this Book Teaches you the Language | |
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| Characteristics of C | |
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| Why you should learn C | |
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| Programming cliches | |
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| The organization of this book | |
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| How to Compile and Run a Simple Program | |
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| Compiling, linking, and executing | |
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| Statements and declarations | |
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| printf and print specifications | |
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| Case sensitivity and blank insensitivity | |
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| Operators and operands | |
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| How to Declare Variables | |
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| Data types and variable declarations | |
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| Initialization and assignment | |
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| Integral data types | |
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| Comments | |
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| How to Write Arithmetic Expressions | |
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| Precedence and association | |
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| Binary and unary operators | |
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| Type casting | |
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| How to Write Statements that Read Information from your Keyboard | |
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| scanf and read specifications | |
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| input redirection | |
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| How to Define Simple Functions | |
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| Calling and returning from functions | |
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| Arguments, parameters, and values | |
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| How to Benefit from Procedure Abstraction | |
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| Making programs easier to reuse, read, and debug | |
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| Making programs easier to augment, improve, and change | |
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| How to Work with Local and Global Variables | |
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| Extent and scope | |
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| Local and global variables | |
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| Macro symbols | |
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| How to Perform Tests Using Numerical Predicates | |
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| Equal, ==, and not equal, !=. Greater than, >, and less than, <. Not, ! | |
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| How to Write One-Way and Two-Way Conditional Statements | |
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| Boolean expressions | |
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| if and if else | |
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| Empty and compound statements | |
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| The conditional operator, ? | |
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| How to Combine Boolean Expressions | |
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| And, &&, and or | |
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| Evaluation order | |
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| How to Write Iteration Statements | |
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| while and for statements | |
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| Augmented assignment operators | |
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| Increment, ++, and decrement, --, operators | |
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| Side effects | |
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| How to Write Iterative Filters | |
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| while reading and for reading loops | |
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| Action of the read function at the end of a file | |
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| How to Write Recursive Functions | |
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| Functions that call themselves | |
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| The base Part and the recursion part. </ | |