Modern C

Summary 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. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology 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.

• | Author: Jens Gustedt
• | Publisher: Manning
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1617295817
• | ISBN-13: 9781617295812