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| Introduction | |
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| At a Glance | |
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| Where You're Going | |
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| Getting Started with C.A Brief History of the C Language | |
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| Why Use C? Preparing to Program | |
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| The Program Development Cycle | |
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| Your First C Program | |
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| Printing Your Listings | |
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| The First Type & Run | |
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| The Components of a C Program | |
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| A Short C Program | |
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| The Program's Components | |
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| A Review of the Parts of a Program | |
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| Storing Information: Variables and Constants | |
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| Understanding Your Computer's Memory | |
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| Storing Information with Variables | |
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| Numeric Variable Types | |
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| Constants | |
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| The Pieces of a C Program: Statements, Expressions, and Operators | |
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| Statements | |
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| Understanding Expressions | |
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| Operators | |
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| The if Statement | |
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| Evaluating Relational Expressions | |
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| The Logical Operators | |
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| More on True/False Values | |
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| Operator Precedence Revisited | |
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| Find the Number | |
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| Packaging Code in Functions | |
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| What Is a Function? How a Function Works | |
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| Functions and Structured Programming | |
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| Writing a Function | |
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| Passing Arguments to a Function | |
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| Calling Functions | |
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| Where the Functions Belong | |
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| Working with Inline Functions | |
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| Basic Program Control | |
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| Arrays: The Basics | |
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| Controlling Program Execution | |
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| Nested Loops | |
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| Fundamentals of Reading and Writing Information | |
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| Displaying Information On-Screen | |
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| Inputting Numeric Data with scanf() | |
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| Using Trigraph Sequences | |
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| Week 1 In Review | |
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| At a Glance | |
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| Where You're Going | |
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| Using Numeric Arrays | |
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| What Is an Array? Naming and Declaring Arrays | |
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| Understanding Pointers | |
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| What Is a Pointer? Pointers and Simple Variables | |
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| Pointers and Variable Types | |
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| Pointers and Arrays | |
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| Pointer Cautions | |
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| Array Subscript Notation and Pointers | |
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| Passing Arrays to Functions | |
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| Pausing for a Second or Two | |
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| Working with Characters and Strings | |
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| The char Data Type | |
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| Using Character Variables | |
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| Using Strings | |
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| Strings and Pointers | |
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| Strings Without Arrays | |
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| Displaying Strings and Characters | |
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| Reading Strings from the Keyboard | |
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| Implementing Structures, Unions, and TypeDefs | |
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| Working with Simple Structures | |
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| Using Structures That are More Complex | |
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| Arrays of Structures | |
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| Initializing Structures | |
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| Structures and Pointers | |
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| Understanding Unions | |
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| Creating Synonyms for Structures with typedef | |
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| Understanding Variable Scope | |
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| What Is Scope? Creating External Variables | |
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| Creating Local Variables | |
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| Local Variables and the main() Function | |
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| Which Storage Class Should You Use? Local Variables and Blocks | |
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| Secret Messages | |
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| Advanced Program Control | |
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| Ending Loops Early | |
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| The goto Statement | |
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| Infinite Loops | |
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| The switch Statement | |
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| Exiting the Program | |
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| Executing Operating System Commands in a Program | |
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| Working with the Screen, Printer, and Keyboard | |
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| Streams and C | |
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| Using C's Stream Functions | |
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| Accepting Keyboard Input | |
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| Controlling Output to the Screen | |
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| Redirecting Input and Output | |
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| When to Use fprintf() | |
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| Week 2 In Review | |
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| At a Glance | |
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| Where You're Going | |
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| Pointers: Beyond the Basics | |
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| Declaring Pointers to Pointers | |
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| Pointers and Multidimensional Arrays | |
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| Working with Arrays of Pointers | |
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| Working with Pointers to Functions | |
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| Bonus Section: Understanding Linked Lists | |
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| Using Disk Files | |
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| Relating Streams to Disk Files | |
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| Understanding the Types of Disk Files | |
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| Using Filenames | |
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| Opening a File | |
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| Writing and Reading File Data | |
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| File Buffering: Closing and Flushing Files | |
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| Understanding Sequential Versus Random File Access | |
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| Detecting the End of a File | |
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| File Management Functions | |
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| Using Temporary Files.Type & Run 5 | |
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| Counting Characters | |
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| Manipulating Strings | |
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| Determining String Length | |
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| Copying Strings | |
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| Concatenating | |