Programming in C : a practical approach / Ajay Mittal

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mittal, Ajay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

C (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 747 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Dorling Kindersley (India), c2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book has a perfect blend of theory as well as practicals and it has been presented in a manner that helps the readers to learn the concepts through practice and programming.

Contents:

Cover

Programming in C

Copyright

Contents

About the Author

Preface

1 Data Types, Variables and Constants

1.1 Introduction

1.2 C Standards

1.2.1 Kernighan & Ritchie (K&R) C Standard

1.2.2 ANSI C/Standard C/C89 Standard

1.2.3 ISO C/C90 Standard

1.2.4 C99 Standard

1.3 Learning Programming Language and Natural Language: An Analogy

1.4 C Character Set

1.5 Identifiers and Keywords

1.5.1 Identifiers

1.5.2 Keywords

1.6 Declaration Statement

1.7 Data Types

1.7.1 Basic/Primitive Data Types

1.7.2 Derived Data Types

1.7.3 User-defined Data Types

1.8 Type Qualifiers and Type Modifiers

1.8.1 Type Qualifiers

1.8.2 Type Modifiers

1.9 Difference Between Declaration and Definition

1.10 Data Object, L-value and R-value

1.10.1 Data Object

1.10.2 L-value

1.10.3 R-value

1.11 Variables and Constants

1.11.1 Variables

1.11.2 Constants

1.12 Structure of a C Program

1.12.1 Comments

1.12.2 Section1: Preprocessor Directive Section

1.12.3 Section 2: Global Declaration Section

1.12.4 Section 3: Functions Section

1.13 Executing a C Program

1.14 More Programs for Startup

1.15 Summary

Exercise Questions

Conceptual Questions and Answers

Code Snippets

Multiple-choice Questions

Outputs and Explanations to Code Snippets

Answers to Multiple-choice Questions

Programming Exercises

Test Yourself

2 Operators and Expressions

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Expressions

2.2.1 Operands

2.2.2 Operators

2.3 Simple Expressions and Compound Expressions

2.3.1 Precedence of Operators

2.3.2 Associativity of Operators

2.4 Classification of Operators

2.4.1 Classification Based on Number of Operands

2.4.2 Classification Based on Role of Operator

2.5 Combined Precedence of All Operators

2.6 Summary

Exercise Questions.

Conceptual Questions and Answers

3 Statements

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Statements

3.3 Classification of Statements

3.3.1 Based Upon the Type of Action they Perform

3.3.2 Based Upon the Number of Constituent Statements

3.3.3 Based Upon their Role

3.4 Summary

4 Arrays and Pointers

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Arrays

4.3 Single-dimensional Arrays

4.3.1 Declaration of a Single-dimensional Array

4.3.2 Usage of Single-dimensional Array

4.3.3 Memory Representation of Single-dimensional Array

4.3.4 Operations on a Single-dimensional Array

4.4 Pointers

4.4.1 Operations on Pointers

4.4.2 void pointer

4.4.3 Null Pointer

4.5 Relationship Between Arrays and Pointers

4.6 Scaling up the Concept

4.6.1 Array of Arrays (Multi-dimensional Arrays)

4.6.2 Array of Pointers

4.6.3 Pointer to a Pointer

4.6.4 Pointer to an Array

4.7 Advantages and Limitations of Arrays

4.8 Summary

5 Functions

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Functions

5.3 Classification of Functions

5.3.1 Based Upon who Develops the Function

5.3.2 Based Upon the Number of Arguments a Function Accepts

5.4 Summary

Code Snippets.

Multiple-choice Questions

6 Strings and Character Arrays

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Strings

6.3 Character Arrays

6.4 Reading Strings from the Keyboard

6.5 Printing Strings on the Screen

6.6 Importance of Terminating Null Character

6.7 String Library Functions

6.7.1 strlen Function

6.7.2 strcpy Function

6.7.3 strcat Function

6.7.4 strcmp Function

6.7.5 strcmpi Function

6.7.6 strrev Function

6.7.7 strlwr Function

6.7.8 strupr Function

6.7.9 strset Function

6.7.10 strchr Function

6.7.11 strrchr Function

6.7.12 strstr Function

6.7.13 strncpy Function

6.7.14 strncat Function

6.7.15 strncmp Function

6.7.16 strncmpi Function

6.7.17 strnset Function

6.8 List of Strings

6.8.1 Array of strings

6.8.2 Array of Character Pointers

6.9 Command Line Arguments

6.10 Summary

7 Scope, Linkage, Lifetime and Storage Classes

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Scope

7.2.1 Determination of Scope of an Identifier

7.2.2 Termination of Scope of an Identifier

7.2.3 Same Scope

7.2.4 Visibility of an Identifier

7.3 Linkage

7.3.1 External linkage

7.3.2 Internal Linkage

7.3.3 No Linkage

7.4 Storage Duration/Lifetime of an Object

7.5 Storage Classes

7.5.1 The auto Storage Class

7.5.2 The register Storage Class

7.5.3 The static Storage Class

7.5.4 The extern Storage Class

7.5.5 The typedef Storage Class

7.6 Dynamic Memory Allocation

7.6.1 Memory Leak

7.7 Summary

8 The C Preprocessor

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Translators

8.3 Phases of Translation

8.3.1 Trigraph Replacement

8.3.2 Line Splicing

8.3.3 Tokenization

8.3.4 Preprocessor Directive Handling

8.4 Summary

9 Structures, Unions, Enumerations and Bit-fields

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Structures

9.2.1 Defining a Structure

9.2.2 Declaring Structure Objects

9.2.3 Operations on Structures

9.3 Pointers to Structures

9.3.1 Declaring Pointer to a Structure

9.3.2 Accessing Structure Members Via a Pointer to a Structure

9.4 Array of Structures

9.5 Structures within a Structure (Nested Structures)

9.6 Functions and Structures

9.6.1 Passing Each Member of a Structure Object as a Separate Argument

9.6.2 Passing a Structure Object by Value

9.6.3 Passing a Structure Object by Address/Reference

9.7 typedef and Structures

9.8 Unions

9.9 Practical Application of Unions

9.9.1 Calling DOS and BIOS Functions

9.9.2 Interrupt Programming

9.10 Enumerations

9.11 Bit-Fields

9.12 Summary

10 Files

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Files

10.3 Streams

10.4 I/O Using Streams

10.4.1 Opening a Stream

10.4.2 Closing Streams.

10.4.3 Character Input

10.4.4 Character Output

10.4.5 File Position Indicator

10.4.6 End of File and Errors

10.4.7 Line Input

10.4.8 Line Output

10.4.9 Formatted Input

10.4.10 Formatted Output

10.4.11 Block Input

10.4.12 Block Output

10.4.13 Stream Buffering and Flushing the Streams

10.5 File Type

10.6 Files and Command Line Arguments

10.7 Summary

Appendix A: Number Systems

A.1 Number systems

A.2 Number System Conversions

A.2.1 Conversion from Decimal Number System to any Other Number System

A.2.2 Conversion from Any Other Number System to Decimal Number System

A.2.3 Conversion from Binary Number System to Octal and Hexadecimal Number System

A.2.4 Conversion from Octal and Hexadecimal Number System to Binary Number System

Appendix B: Algorithms and Flowcharts

B.1 Algorithm

B.2 Flowcharts

Appendix C: Translation Limits

Appendix D: ROM-BIOS and DOS Services

Appendix E: Graphics Programming

E.1 Computer Graphics

E.2 Initializing Graphics Mode in Turbo C 3.0

E.3 Drawing Basic Shapes

E.3.1 Simple Line Drawing

E.3.2 Stylish Line Drawing

E.3.3 Drawing Other Basic Shapes

E.4 Region Filling

E.4.1 Filling Regions with Different Patterns and Colors

E.5 Pattern Drawing Based on Regular Polygons

E.5.1 Drawing Rosettes

E.5.2 Swirling Polygons

E.6 Motif and Tiling

E.7 Viewport and Clipping

Appendix F: Answers to Test Yourself Questions

Index.

Notes:

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Includes index.

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ISBN:

9786612663130

9788131752692

8131752690

9781282663138

1282663135

OCLC:

741566217