Practical C Programming Why Does 2+2 = 5986?

Name: Practical C Programming Why Does 2+2 = 5986?
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ISBN: 9781565923065

ISBN-10: 1565923065

ISBN-13: 9781565923065

Edition: 3rd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Steve Oualline, Steve Oualline

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There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks famous. C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debugging also play a tremendous part in creating programs that run well and are easy to maintain. This book not only teaches you the mechanics of programming, but also describes how to create programs that are easy to read, debug, and update. Practical rules are stressed. For example, there are fifteen precedence rules in C (&& comes before

Book details

List price: $44.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/26/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 454
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.13" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Steve Oualline lives in Southern California, where he works as a software engineer for a major phone company. In his free time he is a real engineer on the Poway Midland Railroad. Steve has written almost a dozen books on programming and Linux software. His web site is http://www.oualline.com .



Preface


Basics



What Is C?



Basics of Program Writing



Style



Basic Declarations and Expressions



Arrays, Qualifiers, and Reading Numbers



Decision and Control Statements



Programming Process


Simple Programming



More Control Statements



Variable Scope and Functions



C Preprocessor



Bit Operations



Advanced Types



Simple Pointers



File Input/Output



Debugging and Optimization



Floating Point


Advanced Programming Concepts



Advanced Pointers



Modular Programming



Ancient Compilers



Portability Problems



C's Dustier Corners



Putting It All Together



Programming Adages


Other Language Features


ASCII Table


Ranges and Parameter Passing Conversions


Operator Precedence Rules


A Program to Compute a Sine Using a Power Series


Glossary


Colophon