Название: Tiny C Projects
Автор: Dan Gookin
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: December 27, 2022
Страниц: 425
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

Learn the big skills of C programming by creating bite-size projects! Work your way through these 15 fun and interesting tiny challenges to master essential C techniques you’ll use in full-size applications.

In Tiny C Projects you will learn how to:

Create libraries of functions for handy use and re-use
Process input through an I/O filter to generate customized output
Use recursion to explore a directory tree and find duplicate files
Develop AI for playing simple games
Explore programming capabilities beyond the standard C library functions
Evaluate and grow the potential of your programs
Improve code to better serve users

Tiny C Projects is an engaging collection of 15 small programming challenges! This fun read develops your C abilities with lighthearted games like tic-tac-toe, utilities like a useful calendar, and thought-provoking exercises like encoding and cyphers. Jokes and lighthearted humor make even complex ideas fun to learn. Each project is small enough to complete in a weekend, and encourages you to evolve your code, add new functions, and explore the full capabilities of C.

About the Technology
The best way to gain programming skills is through hands-on projects—this book offers 15 of them. C is required knowledge for systems engineers, game developers, and roboticists, and you can start writing your own C programs today. Carefully selected projects cover all the core coding skills, including storing and modifying text, reading and writing files, searching your computer’s directory system, and much more.

About the Book
Tiny C Projects teaches C gradually, from project to project. Covering a variety of interesting cases, from timesaving tools, simple games, directory utilities, and more, each program you write starts out simple and gets more interesting as you add features. Watch your tiny projects grow into real applications and improve your C skills, step by step.

What's Inside
Caesar cipher solver: Use an I/O filter to generate customized output
Duplicate file finder: Use recursion to explore a directory tree
Daily greetings: Writing the moon phase algorithm
Lotto pics: Working with random numbers

And 11 more fun projects!

Who should read this book?
This book assumes that you have a good knowledge of C. You don’t need to be an expert, but a raw beginner may struggle with the pace. Though I explain the techniques used and my approach for writing these small programs, I don’t go into detail regarding how the basic aspects of C work. The operating system I chose is Linux. Though I’ve run the code on a Linux box, I developed the programs on Ubuntu Linux running under Windows 10/11. The programs also run on a Macintosh. All the programs in this book are text mode, which requires a terminal window and knowledge of various shell commands, though nothing too technical or specific. Chapter 1 covers the details of coding and building in the command-prompt environment.