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| Introduction | |
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| "What Will Understanding C Do for Me?" | |
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| About This Here Dummies Approach | |
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| How to Work the Examples in This Book | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| What's New with This Edition? | |
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| Final Thots | |
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| Introduction to C Programming | |
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| Up from the Primordial C | |
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| An Extremely Short and Cheap History of the C Language | |
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| The C Development Cycle | |
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| From Text File to Program | |
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| Save It! Compile and Link It! Run It! | |
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| C of Sorrow, C of Woe | |
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| The Required Woes of Editing and Recompiling | |
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| Dealing with the Heartbreak of Errors | |
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| C Straight | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| C Language Pieces' Parts | |
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| The C Language Itself--the Keywords | |
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| Other C Language Components | |
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| Pop Quiz! | |
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| The Helpful RULES Program | |
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| C What I/O | |
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| Introduce Yourself to Mr. Computer | |
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| More on printf() | |
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| Scanf Is Pronounced "Scan-Eff" | |
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| To C or Not to C | |
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| Adding Comments | |
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| Comment Styles of the Nerdy and Not-Quite-Yet-Nerdy | |
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| Using Comments to Disable | |
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| The Perils of "Nested" Comments | |
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| C More I/O with gets() and puts() | |
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| The More I Want, the More I gets() | |
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| The Virtues of puts() | |
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| Run and Scream from Variables and Math | |
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| A + B = C | |
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| The Ever-Changing Variable | |
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| Welcome to the Cold World of Numeric Variables | |
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| A Wee Bit o' Math | |
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| Charting Unknown Cs with Variables | |
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| Cussing, Discussing, and Declaring Variables | |
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| Constants and Variables | |
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| How to C Numbers | |
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| There Are Numbers, and Then There Are Numbers | |
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| How to Make a Number Float | |
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| Bigger than the Float, It's a Double! | |
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| Formatting Your Zeroes and Decimal Places | |
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| Cook That C Variable Charred, Please | |
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| The Other Kind of Variable Type, the char | |
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| Reading and Writing Single Characters | |
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| Character Variables As Values | |
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| Giving Your Programs the Ability to Run Amok | |
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| C More Math and the sacred Order of Precedence | |
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| An All-Too-Brief Review of the Basic C Mathematical Operators | |
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| The Delicate Art of Incrementation (Or, "Just Add One to It") | |
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| The Sacred Order of Precedence | |
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| C the Mighty if Command | |
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| If Only | |
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| If It Isn't True, What Else? | |
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| What If C==C? | |
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| The World of if without Values | |
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| Using the if Keyword to Compare Two Strings | |
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| Iffy C Logic | |
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| Exposing Flaws in logic | |
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| If, And, Or, But | |
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| C You Again | |
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| For Going Loopy | |
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| I'm Bustin' Outta Here! | |
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| C the Loop, C the Loop++ | |
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| The Art of Incrementation | |
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| The Mysterious Practice of Decrementation | |
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| More Incrementation Madness | |
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| C You in a While Loop | |
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| The Lowdown on while Loops | |
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| Not to Beat a Dead Horse or Anything | |
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| Do C While You Sleep | |
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| The Down-Low on Upside-Down do-while Loops | |
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| Nested Loops and Other Bird-Brained Concepts | |
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| Break the Brave and Continue the Fool | |
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| Switch Case, or, From 'C' to Shining 'c' | |
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| The Sneaky switch-case Loops | |
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| The switch-case Solution to the LOBBY Program | |
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| The Old switch-case Trick | |
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| The Special Relationship between while and switch-case | |
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| C Level | |
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| Writing That First Function | |
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| Meet Mr. Function | |
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| Prototyping Your Functions | |
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| The Tao of Functions | |
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| Contending with Variables in Functions | |
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| Bombs Away with the BOMBER Program! | |
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| How We Can All Share and Love with Global Variables | |
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| Functions That Actually Funct | |
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| Marching a Value Off to a Function | |
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| Sending More than One Value to a Function | |
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| Functions That Return Stuff | |
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| No Need to Bother with This C Language Trivia If You're in a Hurry | |
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| The Stuff That Comes First | |
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| Please Don't Leave Me Out! | |
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| What the # defines Are Up To | |
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| Avoiding the Topic of Macros | |
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| The printf() Chapter | |
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| A Quick Review of printf() | |
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| The Old Displaying-Text-with-printf() Routine | |
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| The printf() Escape Sequences | |
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| The Complex printf() Format | |
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| The printf() Conversion Characters | |
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| Math Madness! | |
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| More on Math | |
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| Strange Math? You Got It! | |
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| Something Really Odd to End Your Day | |
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| The Old Random-Number Function | |
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| On Being Random | |
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| The Diabolical Dr. Modulus | |
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| Rolling the Dice with the Final RANDOM Program | |
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| Part of Tens | |
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| Ten More Things You Need to Know about the C Language | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Strings | |
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| Structures | |
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| Pointers | |
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| Linked Lists | |
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| Binary Operators | |
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| Interacting with the Command Line | |
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| Disk Access | |
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| Interacting with the Operating System | |
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| Building Big Programs | |
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| Ten Tips for the Budding Programmer | |
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| Use the Command-Line History | |
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| Keep Your Editor Open in Another Window | |
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| Use a Context-Colored Text Editor | |
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| Know the Line-Number Commands in Your Editor | |
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| Keep a Command Prompt Window Open If You're Using the IDE | |
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| Know a Few Handy Command-Prompt Commands | |
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| Carefully Name Your Variables | |
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| Know Your Post- and Pre-Incrementing and Decrementing Riddles | |
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| Breaking Out of a Loop | |
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| Ten Ways to Solve Your Own Programming Problems | |
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| Work on One Thing at a Time | |
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| Break Up Your Code | |
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| Simplify | |
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| Talk through the Program | |
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| Set Breakpoints | |
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| Monitor Your Variables | |
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| Document Your Work | |
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| Use Debugging Tools | |
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| Use a C Optimizer | |
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| Read More Books! | |
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| The Stuff You Need to Know before You Read All the Other Stuff in This Book | |
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| Setting Things Up | |
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| The C language compiler | |
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| The place to put your stuff | |
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| Making Programs | |
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| Finding your learn directory or folder | |
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| Running an editor | |
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| Compiling and linking | |
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| ASCII Table | |
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| Index | |