21st Century C by Ben Klemens

21st Century C by Ben Klemens

Throw out your old ideas about C and 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 and learn the tools you need to work with this evolved and 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, and 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 and programs Perform advanced math, talk to internet servers, and run databases with existing C libraries This edition also includes new material on concurrent threads, virtual tables, C99 numeric types, and other features.

Ben Klemens is a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, where he creates programs to undertake quantitative analysis and policy-oriented simulations. He also advises the World Bank on intellectual property in developing countries and computer-based immigration policy simulations.

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ISBN 13	9781491903896
ISBN 10	1491903899
Title	21st Century C
Author	Ben Klemens
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Year published	2014-11-11
Number of pages	408
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