21st Century C BY Ben Klemens (1st Edition) [Shroff/O'Reilly] |
Title:
21st Century C
Author's:
Ben Klemens
Publisher:
Shroff/O'Reilly
Edition:
1st Edition
Year:
2012
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PDF
Buy: ONLINE (Amazon)
Book Description:
Throw out your old ideas of C and relearn a
programming language that's substantially outgrown its origins. With 21st
Century C, you'll discover up-to-date techniques that are absent from every
other C text available. C isn't just the foundation of modern programming
languages, it is a modern language, ideal for writing efficient,
state-of-the-art applications. Learn to dump old habits that made sense on
mainframes and pick up the tools you need to use this evolved and aggressively
simple language. No matter what programming language you currently champion,
you'll agree that C rocks.
• Set up a C programming environment with shell
facilities, make files, text editors, debuggers and memory checkers.
• Use Auto tools, CS de facto cross-platform
package manager.
• Learn which older C concepts should be downplayed
or deprecated.
• Explore problematic C concepts that are too
useful to throw out.
• Solve CS string-building problems with C-standard
and POSIX-standard functions.
• Use modern syntactic features for functions that
take structured inputs.
• Build high-level object-based libraries and
programs.
• Apply existing C libraries for doing advanced
math, talking to Internet servers and running databases.
About The
Author:
Ben Klemens has been doing statistical analysis
and computationally-intensive modeling of populations ever since getting his
PhD in Social Sciences from Caltech. He is of the opinion that writing code
should be fun and has had a grand time writing analyses and models (mostly in
C) for the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, National Institute of Mental
Health. As a Nonresident Fellow at Brookings and with the Free Software
Foundation, he has done work on ensuring that creative authors retain the right
to use the software they write. He currently works for the United States
Federal Government.
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