Programming in C

This is a set of notes on Programming in C. They were originally prepared as plain ASCII files using a private set of nroff macros and have now been converted to HTML.

Most of the small programming examples are available on-line. Just select the link about the program and then use your WWW browser's ability to save pages in a local file.

1. Chapter 1 Introduction
2. Chapter 2 Programming with Integers
3. Chapter 3 Arithmetic
4. Chapter 4 Data Types
5. Chapter 5 Loops and Conditions
6. Chapter 6 Addresses, Arrays, Pointers and Strings
7. Chapter 7 Functions and Storage Management
8. Chapter 8 The Pre-Processor and Standard Libraries
9. Chapter 9 Command Line Arguments and File Handling
10. Chapter 10 Structures, Unions and Typedefs
11. Chapter 11 Separate Compilation of C Modules
12. Chapter 12 Efficiency, Economy and Portability

There are various other sources of information available on-line. If you are really interested in the C programming language you should

1. Read the comp.lang.c newsgroup
2. Obtain and read the comp.lang.c FAQ
3. Study the submissions to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest

If you are interested in systems programming especially in the Unix context there are further notes on a wide range of topics.

Peter Burden jphb@scit.wlv.ac.uk