The Gnu C Programming Tutorial (Gnu Software Manuals Series)
The Gnu C Programming Tutorial (Gnu Software Manuals Series) by Mark Burgess
English | June 2003 | ISBN: 1882114612 | 290 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | June 2003 | ISBN: 1882114612 | 290 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
This book is a tutorial for the computer programming language C. Unlike BASIC or Pascal, C was not written as a teaching aid, but as a professional tool. Programmers love C! Moreover, C is a standard, widely-used language, and a single C program can often be made to run on many different kinds of computer. As Richard M. Stallman remarks in GNU Coding Standards, “Using another language is like using a non-standard feature: it will cause trouble for users.”
Skeptics have said that everything that can go wrong in C, does. True, it can be unforgiving, and holds some difficulties that are not obvious at first, but that is because it does not withhold its powerful capabilities from the beginner. If you have come to C seeking a powerful language for writing everyday computer programs, you will not be disappointed. To get the most from this book, you should have some basic computer literacy — you should be able to run a program, edit a text file, and so on. You should also have access to a computer running a GNU system such as GNU/Linux.