“C Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide” Table of Contents

C Programming:
Visual QuickStart Guide

  • Introduction
    • Why Use C?
    • How C Works
    • What YouÕll Need
    • About This Book
    • Getting Help
  • Chapter 1: Getting Started with C
    • Basic Syntax
    • Printing Text
    • Compiling and Running C
    • Keeping Your Application Open
    • Adding Comments to Your Source Code
    • Understanding White Space
  • Chapter 2: Introduction to Data Types
    • Proper Variable Syntax
    • Assigning Values to Variables
    • Printing Variables
    • Introduction to Characters
    • Using Character Strings
    • Introduction to Constants
  • Chapter 3: Working with Numbers
    • Selecting a Number Type
    • Performing Arithmetic
    • Increment and Decrement Operators
    • Understanding Precedence
    • Understanding Overflow and Underflow
    • Variable Conversion
  • Chapter 4: Control Structures
    • If Statements
    • Comparison and Logical Operators
    • Using Else and Else If
    • The Ternary Operator
    • The Switch Conditional
    • The While Loop
    • The For Loop
  • Chapter 5: Standard Input and Output
    • Inputting a Single Character
    • Retrieving Whole Word Input
    • Reading Numeric Input
    • Reading Multiple Inputs
    • Validating Keyboard Input
    • Advanced printf() Usage
  • Chapter 6: Working with Arrays
    • Introduction to Arrays
    • Assigning Values to Arrays
    • Accessing Array Values
    • Defining Arrays Using Constants
    • Looping through Arrays
    • Using Character Arrays
    • Using Multidimensional Arrays
  • Chapter 7: Creating Your Own Functions
    • Creating Simple Functions
    • Creating Functions That Take Arguments
    • Creating Functions That Return a Value
    • Creating Inline Functions
    • Using Recursion
    • Understanding Variable Scope
  • Chapter 8: Using the C Preprocessor
    • Introduction to the C Preprocessor
    • Using Constants
    • Function-like Macros
    • Function-like Macros That Take Arguments
    • Creating and Including Header Files
    • Including Header Files
    • Creating Conditionals
  • Chapter 9: Working with Pointers
    • Understanding Program Memory
    • The Address-of Operator
    • Storing and Retrieving Addresses
    • in Pointer Variables
    • Another Look at Pointer Variables
    • Dereferencing Pointer Variables
    • Passing Addresses to Functions
    • Arrays, Pointers, and Pointer Arithmetic
    • Arrays of Pointers
  • Chapter 10: Managing Memory
    • Static and Dynamic Memory
    • Type Casts
    • Allocating Arrays of Dynamic Size
    • Resizing a Block of Memory
    • Returning Memory from a Function
    • Avoiding Memory Leaks
  • Chapter 11: Working with Strings
    • Basic String Pointer Syntax
    • Finding the Length of a String
    • Connecting Strings (Concatenation)
    • Comparing Strings
    • Copying Strings
    • Sorting Strings
  • Chapter 12: File Input and Output
    • Opening and Closing Files
    • Writing to Files
    • Reading from Files
    • Parsing File Input
    • Writing to Binary Files
    • Reading from Binary Files
    • Moving Around Within Binary Files
  • Chapter 13: Advanced Data Types
    • Introduction to Structures
    • Using typedef
    • Using Arrays of Structures
    • Introduction to Linked Lists
  • Appendix A: Installing and Using C Tools
    • Dev-C++ for Windows
    • Xcode on Mac OS X
    • Unix Tools
    • Debugging with GDB
    • Other Tools
  • Appendix B: Resources
    • Web Sites
    • Tables