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The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language Author: Brian W. Kernighan Dennis M. Ritchie Publisher: Prentice Hall Published: 1988 Pages: 272

The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language Chapters

The C Programming Language Chapters

1. A Tutorial Introduction
   • Getting Started
   • Variables and Arithmetic Expressions
   • The For Statement
   • Symbolic Constants
   • Character Input and Output
   • Arrays
   • Functions
   • Arguments - Call by Value
   • Character Arrays
   • External Variables and Scope
2. Types, Operators and Expressions
   • Variable Names
   • Data Types and Sizes
   • Constants
   • Declarations
   • Arithmetic Operators
   • Relational and Logical Operators
   • Type Conversions
   • Increment and Decrement Operators
   • Bitwise Operators
   • Assignment Operators and Expressions
   • Conditional Expressions
   • Prcedence and Order of Evaluation
3. Control Flow
   • Statements and Blocks
   • If-Else
   • Else-If
   • Switch
   • Loops - While and For
   • Loops - Do-while
   • Break and Continue
   • Goto and Labels
4. Functiona and Program Structure
   • Basics of Functions
   • Functions Returning Non Integers
   • External Variables
   • Scope Rules
   • Header Files
   • Static Variables
   • Register Variables
   • Block Structure
   • Initialization
   • Recursion
   • The C Preprocessor
5. Pointers and Arrays
   • Pointers and Addresses
   • Pointers and Function Arguments
   • Pointers and Arrays
   • Address Arithmetic
   • Character Pointers and Functions
   • Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers
   • Multi-dimensional Arrays
   • Initialization of Pointer Arrays
   • Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays
   • Command-line Arguments
   • Pointers to Functions
   • Complicated Declarations
6. Structures
   • Basics of Structures
   • Structures and Functions
   • Arrays of Structures
   • Pointers to Structures
   • Self-referential Structures
   • Table Lookup
   • Typedef
   • Unions
   • Bit fields
7. Input and Output
   • Standard Input and Output
   • Formatted Output - Printf
   • Variable-length Argument Lists
   • Formatted Input - Scanf
   • File Access
   • Error handling - Stderr and Exit
   • Line Input and Output
   • Miscellaneous Functions
8. The UNIX System Interface
   • File Descriptors
   • Low, Level I/O - Read and Write
   • Open, Creat, Close, Unlink
   • Random Access - Lseek
   • Example - An Implementation of Fopen and Getc
   • Example - Listing Directories
   • Example - Storage Allocator

The C Programming Language Appendices

1. Reference Manual
   • Introduction
   • Lexical Conventions
   • Syntax Notation
   • Meaning of Identifiers
   • Object and Lvalues
   • Conversions
   • Expressions
   • Declarations
   • Statements
   • External Declarations
   • Scope and Linkage
   • Preprocessing
   • Grammar
2. Standard Library
   • Input and Output: <stdio.h>
   • Character Class Tests: <ctype.h>
   • String Functions: <string.h>
   • Mathematical Functions: <math.h>
   • Utility Functions: <stdlib.h>
   • Diagnostics: <assert.h>
   • Variable Argument Lists: <stdarg.h>
   • Non-local Jumps: <setjmp.h>
   • Signals: <signal.h>
   • Date and Time Functions: <time.h>
   • Implementation-defined Limits: <limits.h> and <float.h>
3. Summary of Changes
4. Index