C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide

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Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Nor is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-5198-0 ISBN-10: 0-7897-5198-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013943628 Printed in the United States of America First Printing: August 2013 Acquisitions Editor Mark Taber Managing Editor Sandra Schroeder Project Editor Mandie Frank Copy Editor Krista Hansing Editorial Services, Inc. Indexer Brad Herriman Proofreader Anne Goebel Technical Editor Greg Perry Publishing Coordinator Vanessa Evans Interior Designer Anne Jones Cover Designer Matt Coleman Compositor TnT Design, Inc. Trademarks All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Que Publishing cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. Warning and Disclaimer Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information provided is on an “as is” basis. The authors and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book or from the use of the programs accompanying it. Bulk Sales Que Publishing offers excellent discounts on this book when ordered in quantity for bulk purchases or special sales. For more information, please contact U.S. Corporate and Government Sales 1-800-382-3419 Contents at a Glance Introduction Part I: Jumping Right In 1 What Is C Programming, and Why Should I Care? 2 Writing Your First C Program 3 What Does This Do? Clarifying Your Code with Comments 4 Your World Premiere—Putting Your Program’s Results Up on the Screen 5 Adding Variables to Your Programs 6 Adding Words to Your Programs 7 Making Your Programs More Powerful with #include and #define 8 Interacting with Users Part II: Putting C to Work for You with Operators and Expressions 9 Crunching the Numbers—Letting C Handle Math for You 10 Powering Up Your Variables with Assignments and Expressions 11 The Fork in the Road—Testing Data to Pick a Path 12 Juggling Several Choices with Logical Operators 13 A Bigger Bag of Tricks—Some More Operators for Your Programs Part III: Fleshing Out Your Programs 14 Code Repeat—Using Loops to Save Time and Effort 15 Looking for Another Way to Create Loops 16 Breaking in and out of Looped Code 17 Making the case for the switch Statement 18 Increasing Your Program’s Output (and Input) 19 Getting More from Your Strings 20 Advanced Math (for the Computer, Not You!) Part IV: Managing Data with Your C Programs 21 Dealing with Arrays 22 Searching Arrays 23 Alphabetizing and Arranging Your Data 24 Solving the Mystery of Pointers 25 Arrays and Pointers 26 Maximizing Your Computer’s Memory 27 Setting Up Your Data with Structures Part V: Files and Functions 28 Saving Sequential Files to Your Computer 29 Saving Random Files to Your Computer 30 Organizing Your Programs with Functions 31 Passing Variables to Your Functions 32 Returning Data from Your Functions Appendixes A The ASCII Table B The Draw Poker Program Index Table of Contents Introduction Who’s This Book For? What Makes This Book Different? This Book’s Design Elements How Can I Have Fun with C? What Do I Do Now? Part I: Jumping Right In 1 What Is C Programming, and Why Should I Care? What Is a Program? What You Need to Write C Programs The Programming Process Using C 2 Writing Your First C Program A Down-and-Dirty Chunk of Code The main() Function Kinds of Data Characters and C Numbers in C Wrapping Things Up with Another Example Program 3 What Does This Do? Clarifying Your Code with Comments Commenting on Your Code Specifying Comments Whitespace A Second Style for Your Comments 4 Your World Premiere—Putting Your Program’s Results Up on the Screen How to Use printf() The Format of printf() Printing Strings Escape Sequences Conversion Characters Putting It All Together with a Code Example 5 Adding Variables to Your Programs Kinds of Variables Naming Variables Defining Variables Storing Data in Variables 6 Adding Words to Your Programs Understanding the String Terminator The Length of Strings Character Arrays: Lists of Characters Initializing Strings 7 Making Your Programs More Powerful with #include and #define Including Files Placing #include Directives Defining Constants Building a Header File and Program 8 Interacting with Users Looking at scanf() Prompting for scanf() Problems with scanf() Part II: Putting C to Work for You with Operators and Expressions 9 Crunching the Numbers—Letting C Handle Math for You Basic Arithmetic Order of Operators Break the Rules with Parentheses Assignments Everywhere 10 Powering Up Your Variables with Assignments and Expressions Compound Assignment Watch That Order! Typecasting: Hollywood Could Take Lessons from C 11 The Fork in the Road—Testing Data to Pick a Path Testing Data Using if Otherwise...: Using else 12 Juggling Several Choices with Logical Operators Getting Logical Avoiding the Negative The Order of Logical Operators 13 A Bigger Bag of Tricks—Some More Operators for Your Programs Goodbye if...else; Hello, Conditional The Small-Change Operators: ++ and -- Sizing Up the Situation Part III: Fleshing Out Your Programs 14 Code Repeat—Using Loops to Save Time and Effort while We Repeat Using while Using do...while 15 Looking for Another Way to Create Loops for Repeat’s Sake! Working with for 16 Breaking in and out of Looped Code Take a break Let’s continue Working 17 Making the case for the switch Statement Making the switch break and switch Efficiency Considerations 18 Increasing Your Program’s Output (and Input) putchar() and getchar() The Newline Consideration A Little Faster: getch() 19 Getting More from Your Strings Character-Testing Functions Is the Case Correct? Case-Changing Functions