Software Development in C: A Practical Approach to Programming and Design

This comprehensive yet readable book teaches C language skills and how to build complete working programs (entire software systems) in C, a powerful and popular tool for developing professional software. By the end of the book, users will have written a working text editor, will have learned program design skills, and will have been introduced to software testing and debugging. Beginning with an overview of the evolution of the C programming language and fundamental C programming concepts, this book then discusses data types; provides a detailed examination of the essential C operators and control statements; discusses arrays, user input and output (I/O) and the basics of string handling; and examines basic design techniques through building program components using functions. It then examines the C preprocessor and demonstrates some of the more powerful aspects of the C programming language, providing a look at C++, C#, and Java. For those seeking to develop practical design and development skills using the C language, including computer programmers and software developers.