On to C - Softcover

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About Patrick Henry Winston

Well-known author Patrick Henry Winston teaches computer science and directs the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Read this book if you want to add C to your programming-language repertoire. You can use this book to learn the essentials of the language and to preparefor real-world work.

You learn the key concepts in their natural order as features are added to a short yet representative C program. The final version of the program reads information from a file describing stock trades and predicts the next-day's price using a straight-line extrapolation, thereby reflecting the popularity of C in applications involving data analysis.

As you see the program evolve, you learn how to:

• define functions
• benefit from function abstraction
• solve ordering problems with function prototypes
• process data from files
• create structures and objects
• use pointer parameters to avoid argument copying
• use pointer parameters to alter values
• create new structure objects at run time
• define constructors, readers, and writers
• benefit from data abstraction
• use enumerations and type synonyms to improve readability
• use unions to capture class distinctions
• use bits to record state information
• prevent memory leaks
• access command-like arguments
• organize and compile multiple-file programs
• and much more.