Programming in ANSI C - E Balagurusamy

About the book
Written by the most well known face of India?s IT literacy movement, this book is designed for the first course in C taken by undergraduate students in Computers and Information Technology. The revised edition maintains the lucid flow and continuity which has been the strength of the book.

Key features

Code with comments are provided throughout the book to illustrate how the various features of the language are put together to accomplish specified tasks

Case Studies at the end of the chapters illustrate real-life applications using C

Programming Projects discussed in the appendix give insight on how to integrate the various features of C when handling large problems

?Just Remember? section at the end of the chapters lists out helpful hints and possible problem areas.

Guidelines for developing efficient C programs are given in the last chapter, together with a list of some mistakes that a less experienced C programmer could make.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Overview of C
Chapter 2: Constants, Variables, and Data Types
Chapter 3: Operators and Expressions
Chapter 4: Managing Input and Output Operations
Chapter 5: Decision Making and Branching
Chapter 6: Decision Making and Looping
Chapter 7: Arrays
Chapter 8: Character Arrays and Strings
Chapter 9: User-defined Functions
Chapter 10: Structures and Unions
Chapter 11: Pointers
Chapter 12: File Management in C
Chapter 13: Dynamic Memory Allocation and Linked Lists
Chapter 14: The Preprocessor
Chapter 15: Developing a C Program: Some Guidelines
Appendix I: Bit-level Programming
Appendix II: ASCII Values of Characters
Appendix III: ANSI C Library Functions
Appendix IV: Projects
Appendix V: C99 Features
Bibliography
Index