21st Century C. By Ben Klemens (Paperback, 2014)

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Throw out your old ideas about C & get to know a programming language that's substantially outgrown its origins With this revised edition of 21st Century C you'll discover up-to-date techniques missing from other C tutorials whether you're new to the language or just getting reacquainted C isn't just the foundation of modern programming languages; it is a modern language ideal for writing efficient state-of-the-art applications Get past idioms that made sense on mainframes & learn the tools you need to work with this evolved & aggressively simple language No matter what programming language you currently favor you'll quickly see that 21st century C rocks Set up a C programming environment with shell facilities makefiles text editors debuggers & memory checkers Use Autotools C's de facto cross-platform package manager Learn about the problematic C concepts too useful to discard Solve C's string-building problems with C-standard functions Use modern syntactic features for functions that take structured inputs Build high-level object-based libraries & programs Perform advanced math talk to internet servers & run databases with existing C libraries This edition also

Includes:: new material on concurrent threads virtual tables C99 numeric types & other features