C for Dummies

C For Dummies, 2nd Edition
	About the Author
	Contents at a Glance
	Table of Contents
	Introduction
		“ What Will Understanding C Do for Me?”
		About This Here Dummies Approach
		How to Work the Examples in This Book
		Foolish Assumptions
		Icons Used in This Book
		What’s New with This Edition?
		Final Thots
	Part I: Introduction to C Programming
		Chapter 1: Up from the Primordial C
			An Extremely Short and Cheap History of the C Language
			The C Development Cycle
			From Text File to Program
			Save It! Compile and Link It! Run It!
		Chapter 2: C of Sorrow, C of Woe
			The Required Woes of Editing and Recompiling
			Dealing with the Heartbreak of Errors
		Chapter 3: C Straight
			The Big Picture
			C Language Pieces’ Parts
			The C Language Itself — the Keywords
			Other C Language Components
			Pop Quiz!
			The Helpful RULES Program
		Chapter 4: C What I/O
			Introduce Yourself to Mr. Computer
			More on
			Is Pronounced “ Scan-Eff”
		Chapter 5: To C or Not to C
			Adding Comments
			Comment Styles of the Nerdy and Not-Quite-Yet-Nerdy
			Using Comments to Disable
			The Perils of “ Nested” Comments
		Chapter 6: C More I/O with gets ( ) and puts ( )
			The More I Want, the More I gets ( )
			The Virtues of puts ( )
	Part II: Run and Scream from Variables and Math
		Chapter 7: A + B = C
			The Ever-Changing Variable
			Welcome to the Cold World of Numeric Variables
			A Wee Bit o’ Math
		Chapter 8: Charting Unknown Cs with Variables
			Cussing, Discussing, and Declaring Variables
			Constants and Variables
		Chapter 9: How to C Numbers
			There Are Numbers, and Then There Are Numbers
			How to Make a Number Float
			Bigger than the Float, It’s a Double!
			Formatting Your Zeroes and Decimal Places
		Chapter 10: Cook That C Variable Charred, Please
			The Other Kind of Variable Type, the
			Reading and Writing Single Characters
			Character Variables As Values
	Part III: Giving Your Programs the Ability to Run Amok
		Chapter 11: C More Math and the Sacred Order of Precedence
			An All-Too-Brief Review of the Basic C Mathematical Operators
			The Delicate Art of Incrementation ( Or, “ Just Add One to It”)
			The Sacred Order of Precedence
		Chapter 12: C the Mighty if Command
			If Only. . . .
			If It Isn’t True, What Else?
		Chapter 13: What If C==C?
			The World of if without Values
			Using the if Keyword to Compare Two Strings
		Chapter 14: Iffy C Logic
			Exposing Flaws in Logic
			If, And, Or, But
		Chapter 15: C You Again
			For Going Loopy
			I’m Bustin’ Outta Here!
		Chapter 16: C the Loop, C the Loop++
			The Art of Incrementation
			The Mysterious Practice of Decrementation
			More Incrementation Madness
		Chapter 17: C You in a While Loop
			The Lowdown on while Loops
			Not to Beat a Dead Horse or Anything. . . .
		Chapter 18: Do C While You Sleep
			The Down-Low on Upside-Down do-while Loops
			Nested Loops and Other Bird-Brained Concepts
			Break the Brave and Continue the Fool
		Chapter 19: Switch Case, or, From ‘ C’ to Shining ‘ c’
			The Sneaky switch-case Loops
			The switch-case Solution to the LOBBY Program
			The Old switch-case Trick
			The Special Relationship between while and switch-case
	Part IV: C Level
		Chapter 20: Writing That First Function
			Meet Mr. Function
			Prototyping Your Functions
			The Tao of Functions
		Chapter 21: Contending with Variables in Functions
			Bombs Away with the BOMBER Program!
			How We Can All Share and Love with Global Variables
		Chapter 22: Functions That Actually Funct
			Marching a Value Off to a Function
			Sending More than One Value to a Function
			Functions That Return Stuff
			No Need to Bother with This C Language Trivia If You’re in a Hurry
		Chapter 23: The Stuff That Comes First
			Please Don’t Leave Me Out!
			What the #defines Are Up To
			Avoiding the Topic of Macros
		Chapter 24: The printf( ) Chapter
			A Quick Review of printf( )
			The Old Displaying-Text-with-printf( ) Routine
			The printf( ) Escape Sequences
			The Complex printf( ) Format
			The printf( )Conversion Characters
		Chapter 25: Math Madness!
			More on Math
			Strange Math? You Got It!
			Something Really Odd to End Your Day
		Chapter 26: The Old Random-Number Function
			On Being Random
			The Diabolical Dr. Modulus
			Rolling the Dice with the Final RANDOM Program
	Part V: The Part of Tens
		Chapter 27: Ten More Things You Need to Know about the C Language
			Arrays
			Strings
			Structures
			Pointers
			Linked Lists
			Binary Operators
			Interacting with the Command Line
			Disk Access
			Interacting with the Operating System
			Building Big Programs
		Chapter 28: Ten Tips for the Budding Programmer
			Use the Command-Line History
			Keep Your Editor Open in Another Window
			Use a Context-Colored Text Editor
			Know the Line-Number Commands in Your Editor
			Keep a Command Prompt Window Open If You’re Using the IDE
			Know a Few Handy Command-Prompt Commands
			Carefully Name Your Variables
			Know Your Post-and Pre-Incrementing and Decrementing Riddles
			Breaking Out of a Loop
		Chapter 29: Ten Ways to Solve Your Own Programming Problems
			Work on One Thing at a Time
			Break Up Your Code
			Simplify
			Talk through the Program
			Set Breakpoints
			Monitor Your Variables
			Document Your Work
			Use Debugging Tools
			Use a C Optimizer
			Read More Books!
	Appendix A: The Stuff You Need to Know before You Read All the Other Stuff in This Book
		Setting Things Up
		Making Programs
	Appendix B: ASCII Table
	Index