Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Front Matter
3. Part I. The C Programming Language
   1. 1. Introduction
   2. 2. Our First Program
   3. 3. Types and Declarations
   4. 4. Exercises
   5. 5. Operators
   6. 6. Expressions
   7. 7. Statements
   8. 8. Exercises
   9. 9. Arrays
   10. 10. Pointers
   11. 11. Command-Line Arguments
   12. 12. Exercises
   13. 13. Functions
   14. 14. Exercises
   15. 15. Structures
   16. 16. Unions
   17. 17. Conditional Expression
   18. 18. Typedef
   19. 19. Const Qualifier
   20. 20. Enumerations
   21. 21. Function Pointers
   22. 22. Exercises
   23. 23. Preprocessor
   24. 24. Exercises
   25. 25. Dynamic Memory Allocation
   26. 26. Storage and Scope
   27. 27. Exercises
   28. 28. Standard Input and Output
   29. 29. File Input and Output
   30. 30. Exercises
   31. 31. Header and Source Files
4. Part II. The C Standard Library
   1. 32. Introduction to C Standard Library
5. Part III. Modern C Standards
   1. 33. Introduction to C11 Standard
   2. 34. The C17 Standard
   3. 35. The Upcoming C2X Standard
6. Part IV. Dos and Don’ts
   1. 36. Do Not Use the gets Function
   2. 37. Initialize Variables Before Using Them
   3. 38. Do Not Read Out of Bounds
   4. 39. Do Not Free the Allocated Memory Twice
   5. 40. Do Not Cast the Result of malloc
   6. 41. Do Not Overflow a Signed Integer
   7. 42. Cast a Pointer to void* When Printing Through printf
   8. 43. Do Not Divide by Zero
   9. 44. Where to Use Pointers?
   10. 45. Prefer Functions to Function-Like Macros
   11. 46. static Global Names
   12. 47. What to Put in Header Files?
7. Part V. Appendices
   1. Linkage
   2. Time and Date
   3. Bitwise Operators
   4. Numeric Limits
   5. Summary and Advice
8. Back Matter