Introducing C History of C Origins Standardization C++ Strengths and Weaknesses of C Strengths Weaknesses Effective Use of C C Fundamentals Writing a Simple Program Program: Printing a Pun Compiling and Linking The General Form of a Simple Program Directives Functions Statements Printing Strings Comments Variables and Assignment Types Declarations Assignment Printing the Value of a Variable Program Computing the Dimensional Weight of a Box Initialization Printing Expressions Reading Input Program: Computing the Dimensional Weight of a Box (Revisited) Defining Constants Program: Converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius Identifiers Keywords Layout of a C Program Formatted Input/Output The printf Function Conversion Specifications Program: Using printf to Format Numbers Escape Sequences The scanf Function How scanf Works Ordinary Characters in Format Strings Confusing printf with scanf Program: Computing the Value of Stock Holdings Expressions Arithmetic Operators Operator Precedence and Associativity Program: Computing a UPC Check Digit Assignment Operators Simple Assignment Lvalues Compound Assignment Increment and Decrement Operators Expression Evaluation Order of Subexpression Evaluation Expression Statements 5 Selection Statements Logical Expressions Relational Operators Equality Operators Logical Operators The if Statement Compound Statements The else Clause Cascaded if Statements Program: Calculating a Broker's Commission The 'Dangling else' Problem Conditional Expressions Boolean Values The switch Statement The Role of the break Statement Program: Printing a Date in Legal Form Loops The while Statement Infinite Loops Program: Printing a Table of Squares Program: Summing a Series of Numbers The do Statement Program: Calculating the Number of Digits in an Integer The for Statement for Statement Idioms Omitting Expressions in a for Statement The Comma Operator Program: Printing a Table of Squares (Revisited) Exiting from a Loop The break Statement The continue Statement The goto Statement Program: Balancing a Checkbook The Null Statement Basic Types Integer Types Integer Constants Reading and Writing Integers Program: Summing a Series of Numbers (Revisited) Floating Types Floating Constants Reading and Writing Floating-Point Numbers Character Types Escape Sequences Character-Handling Functions Reading and Writing Characters Program: Determining the Length of a Message The sizeof Operator Type Conve Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.