Practical C

This book is your contemporary "go-to" reference on the C programming language and APIs, including often-needed algorithms within reusable functions. Besides providing you with modules that you can immediately put to use, this practical reference guide can also teach you how to leverage the C language in a way that beginner books cannot achieve.

In this reference, you'll have the following code and advice at your fingertips: layout & pre-processors; control structures, iterations, and selections; pointers and structures; reusability; using Eclipse IDE and other editors; lists, arrays, FIFO and stacks; multi-dimensional arrays and matrices; searching and sorting; recursion; integration; statistics; string utilities in/outside of C; web serving using Mongoose; game application code to build a "MathSearch" puzzle; embedded software, including a C-based Arduino app.

It is a "must-have" for any coder's library.

What you'll learn

• How to avoid pitfalls that can cause intractable problems

• How to handle lists and multi-dimensional arrays

• How to perform searches and so

• How to take advantage of recursion

• How to calculate integrals using numerical computation with practical application

• How to deal with strings in a convenient

Audience

The primary audience of this book consists of programmers who have a general knowledge of C and want to improve the quality of their

Giulio Zambon’s first love was physics, but he decided to dedicate himself to software development more than 30 years ago: back when computers were still made of transistors and core memories, programs were punched on cards, and Fortran only had arithmetic IFs. Over the years, he learned a dozen computer languages and worked with all sorts of operating systems. His specific interests were in telecom and real-time systems, and he managed several projects to their successful completion.

Giulio’s career took him to eight cities in five different countries, where he worked as a software developer, systems consultant, process improvement manager, project manager, and chief operating officer. Since early 2008, he has lived in a peaceful suburb a few kilometers north of Canberra, Australia, where he can dedicate himself to his many interests and in particular to writing software and programming books. Visit his web site, zambon-dot-com-dot-au, to see the full list of the papers and books he has authored.