Forget old-fashioned C programming books that assume the reader is a computer hardware expert and teach frustrating, old-fashioned coding styles. If your students know any language at all, Zed A. Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way can help them get started fast with modern C programming. This book/CD package is called "The Hard Way," but it's really quite easy: it just requires discipline, practice, and persistence. Shaw teaches how to write modern, clean, clear C code through dozens of brilliantly-crafted exercises, most on two pages. Shaw offers plenty of extra help through 5+ full hours of CD-based teaching video. Nothing important comes without discipline, practice, and persistence.
About the Author
Zed Shaw is an avid guitar player, programmer, and writer whose books teach people all over the world how to write software. His books Learn Python the Hard Way and Learn Ruby the Hard Way (both now in their third editions) have been read by millions of people around the world. His software has been used by many large and small companies. His essays are often quoted and read by members of many geek communities. An entertaining and lively writer, he will keep you laughing and make you think.
Features
By top blogger and outstanding teacher Zed Shaw
CD contains 5+ hours of teaching video
Refined through Shaw's years of instructional work online, where he attracts thousands of visitors per day: an older online version of this book earned 500K+ downloads
Table Content
This Book Is Not Really about C
Exercise 0: The Setup
Exercise 1: Dust Off That Compiler
Exercise 2: Using Makefiles to Build
Exercise 3: Formatted Printing
Exercise 4: Using a Debugger
Exercise 5: Memorizing C Operators
Exercise 6: Memorizing C Syntax
Exercise 7: Variables and Types
Exercise 8: If, Else-If, Else
Exercise 9: While-Loop and Boolean Expressions
Exercise 10: Switch Statementsc
Exercise 11: Arrays and Strings
Exercise 12: Sizes and Arrays
Exercise 13: For-Loops and Arrays of Stringsc
Exercise 14: Writing and Using Functions
Exercise 15: Pointers, Dreaded Pointers
Exercise 16: Structs and Pointers to Them
Exercise 17: Heap and Stack Memory Allocation
Exercise 18: Pointers to Functions
Exercise 19: Zed’s Awesome Debug Macros
Exercise 20: Advanced Debugging Techniques
Exercise 21: Advanced Data Types and Flow Control
Exercise 22: The Stack, Scope, and Globals
Exercise 23: Meet Duff’s Device
Exercise 24: Input, Output, Files
Exercise 25: Variable Argument Functions
Exercise 26: Project logfind
Exercise 27: Creative and Defensive Programming
Exercise 28: Intermediate Makefiles
Exercise 29: Libraries and Linking
Exercise 30: Automated Testing
Exercise 31: Common Undefined Behavior
Exercise 32: Double Linked Lists
Exercise 33: Linked List Algorithms
Exercise 34: Dynamic Array
Exercise 35: Sorting and Searching
Exercise 36: Safer Strings
Exercise 37: Hashmaps
Exercise 38: Hashmap Algorithms
Exercise 39: String Algorithms
Exercise 40: Binary Search Trees
Exercise 41: Project devpkg
Exercise 42: Stacks and Queues
Exercise 43: A Simple Statistics Engine
Exercise 44: Ring Buffer
Exercise 45: A Simple TCP/IP Client
Exercise 46: Ternary Search Tree
Exercise 47: A Fast URL Router
Exercise 48: A Simple Network Server
Exercise 49: A Statistics Server
Exercise 50: Routing the Statistics
Exercise 51: Storing the Statistic
Exercise 52: Hacking and Improving Your Server
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