C How to Program: With Case Studies in Applications and SystemsProgramming, Global Edition

<div class="c-section-headers-number-list_container"> <h3>PART 1: (Introductory) Programming Fundamentals Quickstart</h3> <ol> <li><strong>Introduction to Computers and C:</strong> Test-Driving Microsoft Visual Studio, Apple Xcode, GNU gcc, and GNU gcc in a Docker container</li> <li><strong>Intro to C Programming:</strong> Input, Output, Types, Arithmetic, Decision Making</li> <li><strong>Structured Program Development:</strong> Algorithmic Development, Problem Solving, if, if/else, while</li> <li><strong>Program Control:</strong> for, do/while, switch, break, continue, Logical Operators</li> <li><strong>Functions:</strong> Custom Functions, Simulation, Random-Number Generation, Enumerations, Function Call and Return Mechanism, Recursion, Recursive Factorial, Recursive Fibonacci</li> </ol> <h3>PART 2: (Intermediate) Arrays, Pointers, and Strings</h3> <ol start="6"> <li><strong>Arrays:</strong> One- and Two-Dimensional Arrays, Passing Arrays to Functions, Searching, Sorting</li> <li><strong>Pointers:</strong> Pointers operators &amp; and •, Pass-By-Value vs. Pass-By-Reference, Array and Pointer Relationship</li> <li><strong>Characters and Strings:</strong> C Standard Library String- and Character-Processing Functions</li> </ol> <h3>PART 3: (Intermediate) Formatted Input/Output, Structures, and File Processing</h3> <ol start="9"> <li><strong>Formatted Input/Output:</strong> scanf and printf formatting</li> <li><strong>Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulation and Enumerations:</strong> Creating Custom Types with structs and unions, Bitwise Operators, Named Constants</li> <li><strong>File Processing:</strong> Streams, Text and Binary Files, CSV Files, Sequential and Random-Access Files</li> </ol> <h3>PART 4: (Advanced) Algorithms and Data Structures</h3> <ol start="12"> <li><strong>Data Structures:</strong> Dynamic Memory Allocation and Deallocation, Lists, Stacks, Queues, Binary Trees</li> <li><strong>Computer-Science Thinking:</strong> Sorting Algorithms and Big O Insertion Sort, Selection Sort, Merge Sort, Additional Algorithms including Quicksort in the Exercises</li> </ol> <h3>PART 5: (Advanced) Preprocessor and Other Topics</h3> <ol start="14"> <li><strong>Preprocessor:</strong> #include, Conditional Compilation, Macros with Arguments, Assertions</li> <li><strong>Other Topics:</strong> Variable-Length Argument Lists, Command-line Arguments, Multiple-Source-Pile Programs, extern, exit/atexit, calloc/realloc, goto, Numeric Literal Suffixes, Signal Handling</li> </ol> <h4><strong>Appendices</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Operator Precedence Chart</li> <li>ASCII Character Set</li> <li>Numerical Integration</li> <li>Number Systems</li> <li>Multithreading/Multicore and other C18/C11/C99 Topics</li> <li>Intro to Object-Oriented Programming Concepts</li> </ul> <h4> <strong>Online Appendices</strong> </h4> <ul> <li>F-H. Using the Visual Studio Debugger, Using the GNU gdb Debugger, and Using the Xcode Debugger</li> </ul> <h4> <strong>Case Studies</strong> </h4> <p> </p> <h4> <strong>System Programming Case Studies</strong> </h4> <ul> <li>Systems Software: Building Your Own Computer</li> <li>Systems Software: Building Your Own Compiler</li> <li>Embedded Systems Programming: Robotics with the Webots Simulator</li> <li>Performance with Multithreading and Multicore Systems</li> </ul> <h4> <strong>Applications Programming Case Studies</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Random-Number Simulation: Building a Casino Game</li> <li>Random-Number Simulation: Card Shuffling and Dealing</li> <li>Random-Number Simulation: The Tortoise and the Hare Race</li> <li>Intro to Data Science: Survey Data Analysis</li> <li>Direct-Access File Processing: Transaction-Processing System</li> <li>Visualizing a Sorting Algorithm: Merge Sort</li> <li>Artificial Intelligence/Data Science: NLP: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Works?</li> <li>Artificial Intelligence/Data Science: Machine Learning with the GNU Scientific Library</li> <li>Game Programming: SpotOn Game with the raylib Library</li> <li>Game Programming: Cannon Game with the raylib Library</li> <li>Security and Cryptography: Implementing a Vigenère Cipher</li> <li>Visualization with gnuplot: Law of Large Numbers Animation</li> <li>Web Services and the Cloud: libcurl and OpenWeatherMap</li> </ul> </div>