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C Programming A Modern Approach

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ISBN-10: 0393979504

ISBN-13: 9780393979503

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: K. N. King

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The first edition ofC Programming: A Modern Approachwas popular with students and faculty alike because of its clarity and comprehensiveness as well as its trademark Q&A sections. Professor King's spiral approach made it accessible to a broad range of readers, from beginners to more advanced students. With adoptions at over 225 colleges, the first edition was one of the leading C textbooks of the last ten years. The second edition maintains all the book's popular features and brings it up to date with coverage of the C99 standard. The new edition also adds a significant number of exercises and longer programming projects, and includes extensive revisions and updates. Highlights of the…    
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Book details

List price: $108.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 864
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.904

K. N. King (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgia State University. He is the author of Modula-2: A Complete Guide and Java Programming: From the Beginning.

Introducing C
History of C
Origins
Standardization
C++
Strengths and Weaknesses of C
Strengths
Weaknesses
Effective Use of C
C Fundamentals
Writing a Simple Program
Program: Printing a Pun
Compiling and Linking
The General Form of a Simple Program
Directives
Functions
Statements
Printing Strings
Comments
Variables and Assignment
Types
Declarations
Assignment
Printing the Value of a Variable
Program
Computing the Dimensional Weight of a Box
Initialization
Printing Expressions
Reading Input Program: Computing the Dimensional Weight of a Box (Revisited)
Defining Constants Program: Converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius
Identifiers
Keywords
Layout of a C Program
Formatted Input/Output
The printf Function Conversion Specifications
Program: Using printf to Format Numbers
Escape Sequences
The scanf Function How scanf Works
Ordinary Characters in Format Strings
Confusing printf with scanf
Program: Computing the Value of Stock Holdings
Expressions
Arithmetic Operators
Operator Precedence and Associativity
Program: Computing a UPC Check Digit
Assignment Operators Simple Assignment
Lvalues
Compound Assignment
Increment and Decrement Operators
Expression Evaluation Order of Subexpression Evaluation
Expression Statements
5 Selection Statements
Logical Expressions Relational Operators
Equality Operators
Logical Operators
The if Statement Compound Statements
The else Clause
Cascaded if Statements
Program: Calculating a Broker's Commission
The 'Dangling else' Problem
Conditional Expressions
Boolean Values
The switch Statement The Role of the break Statement
Program: Printing a Date in Legal Form
Loops
The while Statement Infinite Loops
Program: Printing a Table of Squares
Program: Summing a Series of Numbers
The do Statement Program: Calculating the Number of Digits in an Integer
The for Statement for Statement Idioms
Omitting Expressions in a for Statement
The Comma Operator
Program: Printing a Table of Squares (Revisited)
Exiting from a Loop
The break Statement
The continue Statement
The goto Statement
Program: Balancing a Checkbook
The Null Statement
Basic Types
Integer Types Integer Constants
Reading and Writing Integers
Program: Summing a Series of Numbers (Revisited)
Floating Types
Floating Constants
Reading and Writing Floating-Point Numbers
Character Types
Escape Sequences
Character-Handling Functions
Reading and Writing Characters
Program: Determining the Length of a Message
The sizeof Operator
Type Conve