C Programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists

C Programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists by David R. Brooks.

1 The Purpose of This Text This text has been written in response to two trends that have gained considerable momentum over the past few years. The first is the decision by many undergraduate engineering and science departments to abandon the traditional programming course based on the aging Fortran...

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Main Author: Brooks, David R. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Programming languages (Electronic computers).
Computer programming.
Computer graphics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Programming Preliminaries
  • 1.1 A Five-Step Problem-Solving Process
  • 1.2 Defining a Pseudocode Language for Algorithm Development
  • 1.3 Organizing Pseudocode Into a Program
  • 1.4 Examples
  • 1.5 What Is the Point of Programming?
  • 1.6 Your First C Program
  • 2 The Basics of C Programming
  • 2.1 C Program Layout
  • 2.2 Basic Input and Output
  • 2.3 Reading External Text Files of Unknown Length
  • 2.4 Reading a File One Character at a Time
  • 2.5 Applications
  • 2.6 Debugging Your Programs
  • 3 Data Types, Operators, and Functions
  • 3.1 Specifying and Using Data Types
  • 3.2 Operators
  • 3.3 Type Casting
  • 3.4 Intrinsic Functions
  • 3.5 Simple User-Defined Functions
  • 3.6 Applications
  • 3.7 Debugging Your Programs
  • 3.8 Exercises
  • 4 Selection and Repetition Constructs
  • 4.1 Relational and Logical Operators
  • 4.2 Selection (IF…THEN…ELSE…) Constructs
  • 4.3 Choosing Alternatives From a List of Possibilities
  • 4.4 Repetition (LOOP…) Constructs
  • 4.5 Applications
  • 4.6 Debugging Your Programs
  • 4.7 Exercises
  • 5 More About Modular Programming
  • 5.1 Defining Information Interfaces in C
  • 5.2 Menu-Driven Programs
  • 5.3 More About Function Interfaces
  • 5.4 Recursive Functions
  • 5.5 Using Prewritten Code Modules
  • 5.6 Using Functions as Arguments and Parameters
  • 5.7 Passing Arguments to the main Function
  • 5.8 Applications
  • 5.9 Debugging Your Programs
  • 5.10 Exercises
  • 6 Arrays
  • 6.1 Arrays in Structured Programming
  • 6.2 One-Dimensional Array Implementation in C
  • 6.3 Using Arrays in Function Calls
  • 6.4 Multidimensional Arrays
  • 6.5 Accessing Arrays With Pointers
  • 6.6 More About Strings
  • 6.8 Debugging Your Programs
  • 6.9 Exercises
  • 7 User-Defined Data Objects
  • 7.1 Creating User-Defined Data Objects
  • 7.2 Arrays of Structures
  • 7.3 Functions With Structures as Parameters and Data Types
  • 7.4 Applications
  • 7.5 Debugging Your Programs
  • 7.6 Exercises
  • 8 Searching and Sorting Algorithms
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Searching Algorithms
  • 8.3 Sorting Algorithms
  • 8.5 Application: Merging Sorted Lists
  • 8.6 Debugging Your Programs
  • 8.7 Exercises
  • 9 Basic Statistics and Numerical Analysis
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Basic Descriptive Statistics
  • 9.3 Numerical Differentiation
  • 9.4 Numerical Integration
  • 9.5 Solving Systems of Linear Equations
  • 9.6 Finding the Roots of Equations
  • 9.7 Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations
  • 9.8 Exercises
  • 10 Binary Files, Random Access, and Dynamic Allocation
  • 10.1 Binary and Random Access Files
  • 10.2 Dynamic Allocation and Linked Lists
  • 10.3 Queues and Stacks
  • 10.4 Application: Managing Data From Remote Instruments
  • 10.5 Exercises
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Table of ASCII Characters for Windows/DOS-Based PCs
  • Appendix 2: Program Listings by Chapter
  • Appendix 3: Glossary.

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