Opis: Learn C the Hard Way - Zed A. Shaw

You Will Learn C! Zed Shaw has crafted the perfect course for the beginning C programmer eager to advance their skills in any language. Follow it and you will learn the many skills early and junior programmers need to succeed-just like the hundreds of thousands of programmers Zed has taught to date! You bring discipline, commitment, persistence, and experience with any programming language; the author supplies everything else. In Learn C the Hard Way, you'll learn C by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Watch Zed Shaw's teaching video and read the exercise. Type his code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you'll learn what good, modern C programs look like; how to think more effectively about code; and how to find and fix mistakes far more efficiently. Most importantly, you'll master rigorous defensive programming techniques, so you can use any language to create software that protects itself from malicious activity and defects. Through practical projects you'll apply what you learn to build confidence in your new skills. Shaw teaches the key skills you need to start writing excellent C software, including * Setting up a C environment* Basic syntax and idioms* Compilation, make files, and linkers* Operators, variables, and data types* Program control* Arrays and strings* Functions, pointers, and structs* Memory allocation* I/O and files* Libraries* Data structures, including linked lists, sort, and search* Stacks and queues* Debugging, defensive coding, and automated testing* Fixing stack overflows, illegal memory access, and more* Breaking and hacking your own C code It'll Be Hard at First. But Soon, You'll Just Get It-And That Will Feel Great! This tutorial will reward you for every minute you put into it. Soon, you'll know one of the world's most powerful programming languages. You'll be a C programmer. Watch Zed, too! The accompanying DVD contains 5+ hours of passionate, powerful teaching: a complete C video course! If you purchase the digital edition, be sure to read "Where Are the Companion Content Files" at the end of the eBook to learn how to access the videos.Acknowledgments xiv This Book Is Not Really about C xv The Undefined Behaviorists xvi C Is a Pretty and Ugly Language xvii What You Will Learn xviii How to Read This Book xviii The Videos xix Exercise 0: The Setup 2 Linux 2 Mac OS X 2 Windows 3 Text Editor 3 Exercise 1: Dust Off That Compiler 6 Breaking It Down 6 What You Should See 7 How to Break It 8 Extra Credit 8 Exercise 2: Using Makefiles to Build 10 Using Make 10 What You Should See 11 How to Break It 12 Extra Credit 12 Exercise 3: Formatted Printing 14 What You Should See 15 External Research 15 How to Break It 15 Extra Credit 16 Exercise 4: Using a Debugger 18 GDB Tricks 18 GDB Quick Reference 18 LLDB Quick Reference 19 Exercise 5: Memorizing C Operators 20 How to Memorize 20 The List of Operators 21 Exercise 6: Memorizing C Syntax 26 The Keywords 26 Syntax Structures 27 A Word of Encouragement 30 A Word of Warning 31 Exercise 7: Variables and Types 32 What You Should See 34 How to Break It 34 Extra Credit 34 Exercise 8: If, Else-If, Else 36 What You Should See 37 How to Break It 37 Extra Credit 38 Exercise 9: While-Loop and Boolean Expressions 40 What You Should See 40 How to Break It 41 Extra Credit 41 Exercise 10: Switch Statements 42 What You Should See 43 How to Break It 44 Extra Credit 44 Exercise 11: Arrays and Strings 46 What You Should See 47 How to Break It 48 Extra Credit 48 Exercise 12: Sizes and Arrays 50 What You Should See 51 How to Break It 52 Extra Credit 53 Exercise 13: For-Loops and Arrays of Strings 54 What You Should See 56 Understanding Arrays of Strings 56 How to Break It 57 Extra Credit 57 Exercise 14: Writing and Using Functions 58 What You Should See 59 How to Break It 60 Extra Credit 60 Exercise 15: Pointers, Dreaded Pointers 62 What You Should See 64 Explaining Pointers 65 Practical Pointer Usage 66 The Pointer Lexicon 66 Pointers Aren't Arrays 67 How to Break It 67 Extra Credit 67 Exercise 16: Structs and Pointers to Them 68 What You Should See 71 Explaining Structures 71 How to Break It 72 Extra Credit 72 Exercise 17: Heap and Stack Memory Allocation 74 What You Should See 79 Heap versus Stack Allocation 80 How to Break It 81 Extra Credit 82 Exercise 18: Pointers to Functions 84 What You Should See 88 How to Break It 88 Extra Credit 89 Exercise 19: Zed's Awesome Debug Macros 90 The C Error-Handling Problem 90 The Debug Macros 91 Using dbg.h 93 What You Should See 95 How the CPP Expands Macros 96 Extra Credit 98 Exercise 20: Advanced Debugging Techniques 100 Debug Printing versus GDB 100 A Debugging Strategy 101 Extra Credit 102 Exercise 21: Advanced Data Types and Flow Control 104 Available Data Types 104 Available Operators 108 Available Control Structures 110 Extra Credit 111 Exercise 22: The Stack, Scope, and Globals 112 ex22.h and ex22.c 112 ex22_main.c 114 What You Should See 117 Scope, Stack, and Bugs 118 How to Break It 119 Extra Credit 119 Exercise 23: Meet Duff's Device 120 What You Should See 124 Solving the Puzzle 124 Extra Credit 125 Exercise 24: Input, Output, Files 126 What You Should See 128 How to Break It 129 The I/O Functions 129 Extra Credit 130 Exercise 25: Variable Argument Functions 132 What You Should See 135 How to Break It 136 Extra Credit 136 Exercise 26: Project logfind 138 The logfind Specification 138 Exercise 27: Creative and Defensive Programming 140 The Creative Programmer Mind-Set 140 The Defensive Programmer Mind-Set 141 The Eight Defensive Programmer Strategies 141 Applying the Eight Strategies 142 Order Is Not Important 149 Extra Credit 150 Exercise 28: Intermediate Makefiles 152 The Basic Project Structure 152 Makefile 153 What You Should See 159 Extra Credit 159 Exercise 29: Libraries and Linking 160 Dynamically Loading a Shared Library 161 What You Should See 163 How to Break It 164 Extra Credit 164 Exercise 30: Automated Testing 166 Wiring Up the Test Framework 167 Extra Credit 171 Exercise 31: Common Undefined Behavior 172 UB 20 173 Exercise 32: Double Linked Lists 174 What Are Data Structures 178 Making the Library 178 Doubly Linked Lists 179 Tests 185 What You Should See 187 How to Improve It 188 Extra Credit 188 Exercise 33: Linked List Algorithms 190 Bubble and Merge Sort 190 The Unit Test 191 The Implementation 193 What You Should See 195 How to Improve It 196 Extra Credit 197 Exercise 34: Dynamic Array 198 Advantages and Disadvantages 205 How to Improve It 206 Extra Credit 206 Exercise 35: Sorting and Searching 208 Radix Sort and Binary Search 211 How to Improve It 221 Extra Credit 222 Exercise 36: Safer Strings 224 Why C Strings Were a Horrible Idea 224 Using bstrlib 225 Learning the Library 226 Exercise 37: Hashmaps 228 The Unit Test 235 How to Improve It 238 Extra Credit 238 Exercise 38: Hashmap Algorithms 240 What You Should See 245 How to Break It 246 Extra Credit 247 Exercise 39: String Algorithms 248 What You Should See 255 Analyzing the Results 257 Extra Credit 258 Exercise 40: Binary Search Trees 260 How to Improve It 273 Extra Credit 273 Exercise 41: Project devpkg 274 What Is devpkg? 274 Project Layout 277 The Makefile 277 The Source Files 278 The Final Challenge 295 Exercise 42: Stacks and Queues 296 What You Should See 299 How to Improve It 299 Extra Credit 299 Exercise 43: A Simple Statistics Engine 300 Rolling Standard Deviation and Mean 300 Implemention 301 How to Use It 306 Extra Credit 307 Exercise 44: Ring Buffer 310 The Unit Test 313 What You Should See 313 How to Improve It 314 Extra Credit 314 Exercise 45: A Simple TCP/IP Client 316 Augment the Makefile 316 The netclient Code 316 What You Should See 320 How to Break It 320 Extra Credit 321 Exercise 46: Ternary Search Tree 322 Advantages and Disadvantages 330 How to Improve It 331 Extra Credit 331 Exercise 47: A Fast URL Router 332 What You Should See 335 How to Improve It 335 Extra Credit 336 Exercise 48: A Simple Network Server 338 The Specification 338 Exercise 49: A Statistics Server 340 Specification 340 Exercise 50: Routing the Statistics 342 Exercise 51: Storing the Statistics 344 The Specification 344 Exercise 52: Hacking and Improving Your Server 346 Next Steps 348 Index 349

Szczegóły: Learn C the Hard Way - Zed A. Shaw

Tytuł: Learn C the Hard Way
Autor: Zed A. Shaw
Producent: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780321884923
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 384
Waga: 0.62 kg

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