Table of Contents

PART 1: (Introductory) Programming Fundamentals Quickstart

Introduction to Computers and C: Test-Driving Microsoft Visual Studio, Apple Xcode, GNU gcc, and GNU gcc in a Docker container

Intro to C Programming: Input, Output, Types, Arithmetic, Decision Making

Structured Program Development: Algorithmic Development, Problem Solving, if, if/else, while

Program Control: for, do/while, switch, break, continue, Logical Operators

Functions: Custom Functions, Simulation, Random-Number Generation, Enumerations, Function Call and Return Mechanism, Recursion, Recursive Factorial, Recursive Fibonacci

PART 2: (Intermediate) Arrays, Pointers, and Strings

Arrays: One- and Two-Dimensional Arrays, Passing Arrays to Functions, Searching, Sorting

Pointers: Pointers operators & and •, Pass-By-Value vs. Pass-By-Reference, Array and Pointer Relationship

Characters and Strings: C Standard Library String- and Character-Processing Functions

PART 3: (Intermediate) Formatted Input/Output, Structures, and File Processing

Formatted Input/Output: scanf and printf formatting

Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulation and Enumerations: Creating Custom Types with structs and unions, Bitwise Operators, Named Constants

File Processing: Streams, Text and Binary Files, CSV Files, Sequential and Random-Access Files

PART 4: (Advanced) Algorithms and Data Structures

Data Structures: Dynamic Memory Allocation and Deallocation, Lists, Stacks, Queues, Binary Trees

Computer-Science Thinking: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Insertion Sort, Selection Sort, Merge Sort, Additional Algorithms including Quicksort in the Exercises

PART 5: (Advanced) Preprocessor and Other Topics

Preprocessor: #include, Conditional Compilation, Macros with Arguments, Assertions

Other Topics: Variable-Length Argument Lists, Command-line Arguments, Multiple-Source-Pile Programs, extern, exit/atexit, calloc/realloc, goto, Numeric Literal Suffixes, Signal Handling

Appendices

• Operator Precedence Chart
• ASCII Character Set
• Numerical Integration
• Number Systems
• Multithreading/Multicore and other C18/C11/C99 Topics
• Intro to Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

Online Appendices

• F-H. Using the Visual Studio Debugger, Using the GNU gdb Debugger, and Using the Xcode Debugger

Case Studies System Programming Case Studies

• Systems Software: Building Your Own Computer
• Systems Software: Building Your Own Compiler
• Embedded Systems Programming: Robotics with the Webots Simulator
• Performance with Multithreading and Multicore Systems

Applications Programming Case Studies

• Random-Number Simulation: Building a Casino Game
• Random-Number Simulation: Card Shuffling and Dealing
• Random-Number Simulation: The Tortoise and the Hare Race
• Intro to Data Science: Survey Data Analysis
• Direct-Access File Processing: Transaction-Processing System
• Visualizing a Sorting Algorithm: Merge Sort
• Artificial Intelligence/Data Science: NLP: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Works?
• Artificial Intelligence/Data Science: Machine Learning with the GNU Scientific Library
• Game Programming: SpotOn Game with the raylib Library
• Game Programming: Cannon Game with the raylib Library
• Security and Cryptography: Implementing a Vigenère Cipher
• Visualization with gnuplot: Law of Large Numbers Animation
• Web Services and the Cloud: libcurl and OpenWeatherMap

About the Author

About our authors

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an MIT graduate with 41 years of experience in computing. Paul is one of the world's most experienced programming-languages trainers, having taught professional courses to software developers since 1992. He has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, industry, government and military clients internationally, including Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, UCLA and many more. He and his coauthor, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are among the world's best-selling programming-language textbook, professional book, video and interactive multimedia e-learning authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 59 years of experience in computing. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University; he studied computing in each of these programs before they spun off Computer Science programs. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels' publications have earned international recognition, with more than 100 translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered 100s of programming courses to academic, corporate, government and military clients.