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    C language Programming: Simple, Short, and Straightforward Way of Learning C Programming
    C language Programming: Simple, Short, and Straightforward Way of Learning C Programming
    C language Programming: Simple, Short, and Straightforward Way of Learning C Programming
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    C language Programming: Simple, Short, and Straightforward Way of Learning C Programming

    By Sherwyn Allibang

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    This book is for absolute beginners with or without prior knowledge in programming, as this book uses Simple words, Short sentences, and Straightforward paragraphs. The triple S way of learning C language programming. The topics covered in this book includes brief introduction to C language, variables, data types, control structures, functions, pointers, and input and output stream to external files. This book starts its discussion from short history to installation of the needed software resource and a step by step screen shots of how to write C language code, compile and execute C programs. It presents graphical representation of algorithms for simpler learning. This book is packed with working and running C program samples and after reading this book, the reader would be able to develop and create C language programs based particularly from problems given in computer science courses, hence, adopting to other programming language will be a lot easier. This book is your first step in your programming career.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSherwyn Allibang
    Release dateSep 23, 2016
    ISBN9781370069040
    C language Programming: Simple, Short, and Straightforward Way of Learning C Programming
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    Sherwyn Allibang

    Sherwyn Allibang has 10 years experience in the academe as college professor handling business and IT related subjects. Aside from his career as an academe, he is also a freelance software developer catering system development from project management to core programming. With the degree in Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Master in Business Administration, Master in Information Technology, and Doctor in Business Administration, Sherwyn is a solutions-focused, team oriented IT Specialist, with broad-based experience and hands-on skill in the successful implementation of highly effective technical support strategies. A proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical support requirements, identifies deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develops innovative solutions for increasing reliability and improving productivity.

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    C language Programming - Sherwyn Allibang

    C language Programming: Simple, Short, and Straightforward Way of Learning C Programming

    Copyright 2016

    Sherwyn Allibang

    Edition License Notes

    This book is authorized for your own personal use. This book may not be re-sold or offered away to other individuals. Much thanks to you for regarding the diligent work of the author.

    Introduction

    This book is for absolute beginners with or without prior knowledge in programming, as this book uses Simple words, Short sentences, and Straightforward paragraphs. The triple S way of learning C language programming. The topics covered in this book includes brief introduction to C language, variables, data types, control structures, functions, pointers, and input and output stream to external files. This book starts its discussion from short history to installation of the needed software resource and a step by step screen shots of how to write C language code, compile and execute C programs. It presents graphical representation of algorithms for simpler learning. This book is packed with working and running C program samples and after reading this book, the reader would be able to develop and create C language programs based particularly from problems given in computer science courses, hence, adopting to other programming language will be a lot easier. This book is your first step in your programming career.

    TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!

    The resources used in this book are:

    > Personal Computer running Windows 7 Operating System

    > Dev-C++ available at http://bloodshed.net

    Other Windows OS versions can also be used as long as it supports the above mentioned software. You may also ought to use other C compilers or IDE. Moreover, the sample programs and codes also work with Linux Operating Systems.

    NOTE: All links provided in this book are updated occasionally. If a link becomes unavailable, email me at zherwyndbest@facebook.com

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgement

    Dedication

    Chapter 1 - Starting C Language Programming

    Short history of C Language

    Reasons to use C Language

    Beginning to Program in C Language

    Installing the Dev-C++

    Installing compiler for Linux

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 2 - Our First C Language Program

    Definition of programming terms

    The components of a C program

    Writing, compiling, and running our first program using Dev-C++ for Windows

    Correcting errors

    Writing, compiling, and running our first program with Linux

    Statements

    Null Statements

    White spaces

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 3 - Storing Data: Variables and Data Types in C Language

    Variable

    Variable Declaration and definition

    Scope of variables

    Constants

    Keywords

    Conversion specifiers of data types

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 4 - Fundamentals of Input And Output in C Language

    Displaying text on-screen

    puts() function

    printf() function

    Literal text

    An escape sequence

    Accepting user input

    getch() function

    getche() and getchar() functions

    scanf() function

    gets() function

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 5 - Arrays and Strings in C Language

    What is an Array?

    Single-Dimensional

    Multi-Dimensional Array

    Strings

    Declaring and defining a string

    Defining a string using input functions

    Strings' pre-defined functions

    Length of a String

    Concatenation of Strings

    Compare Two Strings

    Copy Strings

    Reversing the Order of a String

    Converting Uppercase Strings to Lowercase Strings

    Converting Lowercase Strings to Uppercase Strings

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 6 - Mathematical Operations in C Language

    Expressions

    Operators

    Assignment Operator

    Mathematical Operators

    Binary

    Unary

    Mathematical operators precedence level and parentheses

    Relational Operators

    Logical Operators

    Type Casting

    Pre-defined Mathematical Functions

    acos()

    asin()

    atan()

    atan2()

    cos()

    cosh()

    sin()

    sinh()

    tan()

    tanh()

    exp()

    log()

    log10()

    pow()

    sqrt()

    ceil()

    fabs()

    floor()

    fmod()

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 7 - Conditional Statements in C language

    The if() statement

    Single-alternative

    Dual-alternative

    Multiple-alternative

    Nested if() statement

    The switch() statement

    Things to consider in conditional statement

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 8 - Looping Statements in C Language

    What is a Loop?

    Counter-controlled loop

    for() loop statement

    Nested for() loop statement

    Condition-controlled loop

    Pre-test loop

    Post-test loop

    The Infinite Loop

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 9 - User-Defined Functions in C Language

    User-defined function

    User-defined function prototype

    User-defined function definition

    Calling a user-defined function

    Things to consider in functions:

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 10 - User-Defined Data Types in C Language

    Structures

    Declaring a structure

    Defining a structure

    Accessing Structure Members

    Compound declaration and definition of structure

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 11 - Pointer in C Language

    Pointers in C language

    Pointer Declaration and definition

    How pointers works?

    Pointer Arithmetic

    Self-assessment questions

    Chapter 12 - File Management in C Language

    File management in C

    Defining and opening a file

    Closing a File

    Reading and writing a file

    putc() and getc() functions

    fprintf() and fscanf() functions

    Deleting a File

    Renaming a File

    Self-assessment questions

    Answers to self-assessment questions

    Ending Notes

    Disclaimer

    About the Author

    Acknowledgements

    The author wishes to express his heartfelt gratitude to the Almighty God for His grace, wisdom, and guidance and for giving the author the determination to write this book. This book would not have been possible without the support and help of several individuals who in one way or another contributed and extended their valuable assistance in the preparation and completion of this material. The author offer his regards and blessings to all of those who supported him in any respect during the completion of this book.

    Dedication

    The author dedicates this book to the ALMIGHTY GOD.

    This book is also dedicated to Dennis Ritchie for giving the author the tools to program and to Bill Gates for giving the author the reasons to program.

    Chapter 1 - Starting C Language Programming

    This chapter presents a brief overview of C language. It presents the things needed in starting C language programming.

    Short history of C Language

    C is a general-purpose high level language that was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie for the Unix operating system. It was first implemented on the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 computer in 1972. The Unix operating system and virtually all Unix applications are written in the C language. C has now become a widely used professional language for various reasons:

    1. Easy to learn.

    2. Structured language.

    3. Produces efficient programs.

    4. It can handle low-level activities.

    5. It can be compiled on a variety of computers.

    6. It has a low-level language capability with the convenience of high-level programming.

    C language was invented to write an operating system called UNIX. C is a successor of B language which was introduced around 1970. The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI). By 1973 UNIX OS almost totally written in C. Today C is the most widely used System Programming Language. Most of the state of the art software have been implemented using C language.

    Reasons to use C Language

    To start with, I highly recommend C language for any beginning programmers to start their programming career because most of the high-level and other popular programming languages today is based from C language. Once you've learned the concepts behind programming language with C, adopting or migrating to other language will be easy as most of the things needed are pretty similar.

    C was initially used for system development work, in particular the programs that make-up the operating system. C was adopted as a system development language because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as code written in assembly language. Some examples of the use of C might be:

    1. Operating Systems

    2. Language Compilers

    3. Assemblers

    4. Text Editors

    4. Print Spoolers

    5. Network Drivers

    6. Modern Programs

    7. Data Bases

    8. Language Interpreters

    9. Utilities

    10. C Program File

    Beginning to Program in C Language

    All the C programs are written into text files with extension .c for example hello.c, where .c is extension file name. These text files are called source files. The source files contains the C source codes and will later be transformed into a running executable file. The program development cycle of C language are:

    1. Write the source codes into a text editor (ex: notepad) to create the source file.

    2. Compile the source file to create the object file.

    3. The object file is link into an executable (ex: .exe for windows) file.

    4. Run the program and see the result.

    Based from the program development cycle of C, notice that there are several things needed which includes a text editor, a compiler, and a linker. The good news is that, for Windows users, there is a software that comprises the three. It is called Dev-C++ which is available at http://bloodshed.net and for the download direct link at http://bloodshed-dev-c.en.softonic.com/download.

    Dev-C++ is a C source code editor, a compiler, and a linker. All the things needed in creating a C program.

    Note: You may ought to use other C compilers.

    Installing the

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