The Art of C Programming

1 Compilers and Interpreters.- Editors.- The Compilation Process.- 2 The Skeleton of a C Program.- Plus ca Change ....- Vive la Différence.- Simple and Compound Statements.- Functions That Don't Return Values.- Returning Values.- Main.- Variable Types.- Variable Scope.- Global Variables.- Loose Ends.- printf.- Comments.- 3 Loops and Control Constructs.- If.- Conditional Expressions.- Logical Connectives.- Loops.- while.- Autoincrements.- The sqr Function.- do-while.- for loops.- 4 Arithmetic and Logic.- Odds and Evens.- Logical Operators.- ASCII Code.- AND.- OR.- XOR.- NOT.- Shifts.- 5 Strings, Arrays, and Pointers.- Strings and Pointers.- Arrays.- Declaring Arrays.- String Functions.- Left-Hand Bit.- Right a Bit.- More about Pointers.- Left Again.- Further Right.- Copycat.- 6 Floats and Other Types.- float.- double.- Qualifiers for int.- Signs and Shifts.- Register Variables.- Declaring Structures.- Defining Your Own Types.- Constants and Initializers.- Character Constants.- Handling Control Characters.- Defining Your Own Constants.- Variable Constants.- # include.- Octal and Hexadecimal Constants.- Initializers.- Initializing Pointers.- Declaring Function Types.- 7 Input.- Primitive Input.- Get a Bufferfull.- Operator Precedence.- Strings to Numbers.- A Feeble Excuse.- scanf.- 8 Output.- More about printf.- Justification.- Printing to Memory.- Primitive Output.- 9 More About Control Constructs.- The Conditional Operator.- Leaping out of Loops.- Continuing.- Multiway Switches.- Do Not Pass Go.- 10 Recursion.- Factorials.- Things with Strings.- Back-to-Front Sentences.- In and Out.- Reversing the Text.- Postscript.- 11 Structures.- Playing with Structures.- The Storeman's Mate.- Delete.- Add.- Recursive Structures.- 12 File-handling.- I/O Redirection.- ErrorMessages.- Buffered File I/O.- fopen.- Creating a File.- Once More, with Filing.- File Access Errors.- Random Access Files.- The Square Table.- Second Attempt.- Reversing the Process.- 13 Debugging.- Common

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick. An active research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public understanding of science; his book 'Nature's Numbers' was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.