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This textbook is an ideal introduction in college courses or self-study for learning computer programming using the C language. Written for those with minimal or no programming experience, Computer Programming in C for Beginners offers a heavily guided, hands-on approach that enables the reader to quickly start programming, and then progresses to cover the major concepts of C programming that are critical for an early stage programmer to know and understand. While the progression of topics is conventional, their treatment is innovative and designed for rapid understanding of the many concepts in C that have traditionally proven difficult for beginners, such as variable typing and scope, function definition, passing by value, pointers, passing by reference, arrays, structures, basic memory management, dynamic memory allocation, and linked lists, as well as an introductory treatment of searching and sorting algorithms.  Written in an informal but clear narrative, the book uses extensive examples throughout and provides detailed guidance on how to write the C code to achieve the objectives of the example problems. Derived from the author’s many years of teaching hands-on college courses, it encourages the reader to follow along by programming the progressively more complex exercise programs presented. In some sections, errors are purposely inserted into the code to teach the reader about the common pitfalls of programming in general, and the C language in particular.

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Author:   Avelino J. Gonzalez
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.591kg
ISBN:  

9783030507497

ISBN 10:   3030507491
Pages:   193
Publication Date:   02 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installing and Using Code::Blocks; creating a source file, compiling and executing it 1.1  Downloading and installing Code::Blocks 1.2  Compiling and executing your first C program 1.3  Writing your first program Chapter 2: Variables, memory and operators 1.1  Variables – a brief Introduction 1.2  Declaring simple variables 1.2.1        Declaring and initializing integer variables 1.2.2        Setting values of variables 1.2.2.1  Integer variables 1.2.2.2  Floating point variables 1.2.2.3  Double Precision floating point variables 1.2.2.4  Character variables 1.2.3        Mixing up data types 1.3  Working with variables and operators 1.3.1        Addition, subtraction and multiplication 1.3.2        Division 1.3.2.1  Integer division 1.3.2.2  Mixing up integer and floating point division 1.3.3        Increment/decrement operators 1.4  Constants 1.5  Summary Chapter 3: Selection Structures 3.1  Selection Structures – a short intro 3.2  Single-selection structures 3.3  Double-selection structures 3.4  Multiple-selection structures 3.5  Exercise for the student 3.6  The switch structure 3.7  Summary Chapter 4: Repetition Structures 4.1   Repetition Structures – a short intro 4.2   for Loops 4.3   The while loop 4.4   The do-while loop 4.5   Summary Chapter 5: Defining and Calling Programmer-defined Functions 5.1  Defining and calling functions – a short intro 5.2  Defining functions 5.3  Calling functions 5.4  Returning values 5.5  Passing values of variables to functions 5.6  Summary Chapter 6: Pointer variables 6.1  Pointers – a short intro 6.2  Declaring and initializing pointers 6.3  Input/output with pointers 6.4  Calling functions by reference with pointers 6.5  Pointer arithmetic 6.6  Double pointers 6.7  Summary Chapter 7: Arrays 7.1  Arrays – a short intro 7.2  Declaring and initializing arrays 7.3  Arrays, pointers and pointer math 7.4  Arrays and loops 7.5  Passing arrays to functions 7.6  Summary Chapter 8: Structures 8.1  structures – a short intro 8.2  Instantiating structure variables 8.2.1        Instantiating within the body of the struct definition 8.2.2        Instantiating structure variables using the structure tag 8.2.3        Defining new data types with typedef 8.3  Member access operators: the Dot and the Arrow operators 8.4  Passing structures to functions 8.5  Structures, arrays and loops 8.6  Summary Chapter 9: Strings, Advanced I/O 9.1  Strings – a deeper treatment 9.1.1        Initializing strings 9.1.2        Setting values to string variables 9.1.3        The length of a string 9.1.4        Comparing strings 9.1.5        Concatenating strings 9.2  Advanced I/O 9.2.1        The width specifier 9.2.2        The .precision specifier 9.2.3        The flag specifier 9.3  External file I/O 9.3.1        Writing to external files 9.3.2        Reading from external files 9.4  Summary Chapter 10: Dynamic Memory Allocation, Multi-file programs 10.1Dynamic Memory Allocation 10.2How to allocate memory dynamically 10.3Multi-file programs 10.4Summary Chapter 11: Linked Lists 11.1Linked structures – a brief introduction 11.2How to link together dynamically-allocated memory 11.3Traversing a linked list 11.4Inserting nodes into an existing linked list 11.4.1    Inserting new nodes at the front of the linked list 11.4.2    Inserting new nodes at the tail of the linked list 11.5Deleting nodes from the list 11.6Summary Chapter 12: Searching and Sorting 12.1  Searching 12.2  Sorting a List 12.2.1    Selection Sort 12.2.2    Bubble Sort 12.3  Summary  

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Avelino Gonzalez is Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida. He was previously a Professor in the same department, and had a joint appointment with the ECE department.  Prior to that he was a Senior Engineer with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, where he was instrumental in the development of the GenAID system, the first commercially available AI product.  He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.  His area of research is Artificial Intelligence, the role of context in modeling intelligent behavior, and machine learning from observation of human actions.  He has co-authored nearly 300 research articles, as well as three text books and one edited volume (in contextual reasoning).  He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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