This book aims to teach the essentials of the C programming language, and is suitable for introductory study at any level. It assumes no previous knowledge, and the pace is gentle. It uses the ANSI C standard, and is thus suitable for use with all modern C systems. Though C is rather old, it is still used to write applications which need to run quickly, such as animation for games. Though is a smaller language than e.g. C++ or Java, its wide range of facilities means that the beginner is advised to start on a subset of the complete language: this approach is taken here. Where appropriate, a 'Big Picture' section takes the reader to more advanced topics. Mike Parr has been teaching programming for 25 years, and has written books on C, Ada, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. He aims to break down barriers that can prevent beginners from making a start in programming.

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