C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide, 3rd edition

C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third EditionUpdated for C11PART I: JUMPING RIGHT IN1 What Is C Programming, and Why Should I Care?2 Writing Your First C Program3 What Does This Do? Clarifying Your Code with Comments4 Your World Premiere—Putting Your Program’s Results5 Adding Variables to Your Programs6 Adding Words to Your Programs7 Making Your Programs More Powerful with #include and #define8 Interacting with UsersPART II: PUTTING C TO WORK FOR YOU9 Crunching the Numbers—Letting C Handle Math for You10 Powering Up Your Variables with Assignments and Expressions11 The Fork in the Road—Testing Data to Pick a Path12 Juggling Several Choices with Logical Operators13 A Bigger Bag of Tricks–Some More Operators for Your ProgramsPART III: FLESHING OUT YOUR PROGRAMS14 Code Repeat—Using Loops to Save Time and Effort15 Looking for Another Way to Create Loops16 Breaking in and out of Looped Code17 Making the case for the switch Statement18 Increasing Your Program’s Output (and Input)19 Getting More from Your Strings20 Advanced Math (for the Computer, Not You!) .PART IV: MANAGING DATA WITH YOUR C PROGRAMS21 Dealing with Arrays22 Searching Arrays23 Alphabetizing and Arranging Your Data24 Solving the Mystery of Pointers25 Arrays and Pointers26 Maximizing Your Computer’s Memory27 Setting Up Your Data with StructuresPART V: FILES AND FUNCTIONS28 Saving Sequential Files to Your Computer29 Saving Random Files to Your Computer30 Organizing Your Programs with Functions31 Passing Variables to Your Functions32 Returning Data from Your FunctionsAPPENDIXESA The ASCII TableB The Draw Poker Program