Modern C

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Jens Gustedt
  • November 2019
  • ISBN 9781617295812
  • 408 pages
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  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
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Modern C focuses on the new and unique features of modern C programming. The book is based on the latest C standards and offers an up-to-date perspective on this tried-and-true language.

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C is extraordinarily modern for a 50-year-old programming language. Whether you’re writing embedded code, low-level system routines, or high-performance applications, C is up to the challenge. This unique book, based on the latest C standards, exposes a modern perspective of this tried-and-true language.

about the book

Modern C introduces you to modern day C programming, emphasizing the unique and new features of this powerful language. For new C coders, it starts with fundamentals like structure, grammar, compilation, and execution. From there, you’ll advance to control structures, data types, operators, and functions, as you gain a deeper understanding of what’s happening under the hood. In the final chapters, you’ll explore performance considerations, reentrancy, atomicity, threads, and type-generic programming. You’ll code as you go with concept-reinforcing exercises and skill-honing challenges along the way.

what's inside

  • Operators and functions
  • Pointers, threading, and atomicity
  • C’s memory model
  • Hands-on exercises

about the reader

For programmers comfortable writing simple programs in a language like Java, Python, Ruby, C#, C++, or C.

about the author

Jens Gustedt is a senior scientist at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA) and co-editor of the ISO C standard.

Great introductory material to the ‘new’ C. This isn’t your grandfather’s C anymore!

Hugo Durana, Microsoft

Reading and working through this book is just like having an expert by your side.

Glen Sirakavit, Data Recognition

The most authoritative book on C since Kernighan and Ritchie. A must-have on the shelves of all C programmers.

Manu Raghavan Sareena, Arm

The definitive guide to learning modern C.

Sanchir Kartiev, Emerline

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