C How to Program

C How to Program, with an introduction to C++.

Contents

Chapter 02

• Introduction to C Programming: Fundamentals of the C programming language, including basic syntax, data types, and simple I/O operations.

Chapter 03

• Structured Program Development in C: Algorithms, pseudocode, and control structures like selection and iteration statements for structuring C programs.

Chapter 04

• C Program Control: Focuses on iteration essentials, including the use of for, while, and do...while loops, as well as if, if...else and switch statements.

Chapter 05

• C Functions: Modularize programs using functions, covering function prototypes, arguments, header, storage classes, scope, and recursion.

Chapter 06

• C Arrays: Arrays definition, manipulation, character arrays, arrays of functions, multidimensional and variable length arrays.

Chapter 07

• C Pointers: Pointers definition, const type qualifier, principle of least privilege, pointer arithemetic, sizeof operator, arrays of pointers, function pointers and array of pointers to functions.

Chapter 08

• C Characters and Strings: String handling and character functions in C, including string manipulation, comparison, search and memory functions.

Chapter 09

• C Formatted Input/Output: Conversion specifiers for printf and scanf.

Chapter 10

• C Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulation, and Enumerations: Definitions of structures and unions in C, type definitions, bit manipulation techniques, bit fields, and enumeration constants.

Chapter 11

• C File Processing: File handling in C, including creating, reading, and writing files using sequential and random access.

Chapter 12

• C Data Structures: Introduction to self-referential structures and common data structures such as linked lists, stacks, and queues.

Chapter 13

• C Preprocessor: The preprocessor directives in C, including #include, #define symbolic constants and macros, conditional compilation #if...#endif, # and ## operators, predefined symbolic constants and assertion.

Chapter 14

• Other C Topics: Redirecting input < and output >, pipe |, variable-length argument lists ..., command line arguments argv, compiling multiple source file programs using extern, static and Makefile. Use of exit, atexit, suffixes, signal handling, dynamic memory allocation using calloc and realloc. Unconditional branching using break and goto statement.

Appendix E

• Designated initializers and compound literals
• Complex numbers
• Empty arguments in a macro
• __VA_ARGS__ identifier and variable-length argument lists for macros
• __func__ predefined Identifier
• Inline functions using keyword inline
• Keyword restrict
• _Noreturn function specifier
• Static assertions using _Static_assert
• Type-generic expressions using _Generic

Program Compilation

To compile C or C++ code, use the following command. For execution, run a.exe on Windows and ./a.out on Unix.

make compile FILE=<filename>

Clean

To clean up build binaries, use the following command:

make clean