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Learn C Programming

You're reading from   Learn C Programming A beginner's guide to learning C programming the easy and disciplined way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349917
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: C Fundamentals
2. Running Hello, World! FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Program Structure 4. Working with Basic Data Types 5. Using Variables and Assignment 6. Exploring Operators and Expressions 7. Exploring Conditional Program Flow 8. Exploring Loops and Iteration 9. Creating and Using Enumerations 10. Section 2: Complex Data Types
11. Creating and Using Structures 12. Creating Custom Data Types with typedef 13. Working with Arrays 14. Working with Multi-Dimensional Arrays 15. Using Pointers 16. Understanding Arrays and Pointers 17. Working with Strings 18. Creating and Using More Complex Structures 19. Section 3: Memory Manipulation
20. Understanding Memory Allocation and Lifetime 21. Using Dynamic Memory Allocation 22. Section 4: Input and Output
23. Exploring Formatted Output 24. Getting Input from the Command Line 25. Exploring Formatted Input 26. Working with Files 27. Using File Input and File Output 28. Section 5: Building Blocks for Larger Programs
29. Working with Multi-File Programs 30. Understanding Scope 31. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix
Working with Multi-File Programs

In order to solve larger problems, we often need large programs. All of the programs we have developed here have been small—under 1,000 lines of code. A reasonable size for a medium-sized program to, say, create a simple game, perform a basic but robust utility, or keep notes might consist of anywhere between 10,000 to 100,000 lines of code. A large program would manage a company's inventory, track sales orders and bills of materials, provide word processing or spreadsheet capabilities, or manage the resources of the computer itself—an operating system. Such programs would consist of anywhere from 100,000 lines of code to a million or more lines of code. Such programs would have teams of programmers and require hundreds of man-years of effort to create and maintain them.

As you gain experience in programming, you may find that the kinds of problems you work to solve become...

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