C Primer Plus®, Third Edition

Chapter 10. Arrays and Pointers

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• Keyword

  static
  

• Operators

  & *(unary)
  

In this chapter, you learn how to create and initialize arrays. Along the way, you strengthen your knowledge of pointers and see how they relate to arrays. You also write functions that process arrays and explore two-dimensional arrays.

People turn to computers for tasks like tracking monthly expenses or daily rainfall or quarterly sales or weekly weights. As a programmer, you inevitably have to deal with large quantities of related data. Often, arrays offer the best way to handle such data in an efficient, convenient manner. Chapter 6, "C Control Statements: Looping," introduced arrays, and this chapter takes a more thorough ...