The C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (BRIAN W.KERNIGHAN, DENNIS M.RITCHIE)

• Chapter 1: A Tutorial Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Variables and Arithmetic Expressions
  • The for statement
  • Symbolic Constants
  • Character Input and Output
  • Arrays
  • Functions
  • Arguments - Call by Value
  • Character Arrays
  • External Variables and Scope
• Chapter 2: Types, Operators and Expressions
  • Variable Names
  • Data Types and Sizes
  • Constants
  • Declarations
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Relational and Logical Operators
  • Type Conversions
  • Increment and Decrement Operators
  • Bitwise Operators
  • Assignment Operators and Expressions
  • Conditional Expressions
  • Precedence and Order of Evaluation
• Chapter 3: Control Flow
  • Statements and Blocks
  • If-Else
  • Else-If
  • Switch
  • Loops - While and For
  • Loops - Do-While
  • Break and Continue
  • Goto and labels
• Chapter 4: Functions and Program Structure
  • Basics of Functions
  • Functions Returning Non-integers
  • External Variables
  • Scope Rules
  • Header Files
  • Static Variables
  • Register Variables
  • Block Structure
  • Initialization
  • Recursion
  • The C Preprocessor
• Chapter 5: Pointers and Arrays
  • Pointers and Addresses
  • Pointers and Function Arguments
  • Pointers and Arrays
  • Address Arithmetic
  • Character Pointers and Functions
  • Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers
  • Multi-dimensional Arrays
  • Initialization of Pointer Arrays
  • Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays
  • Command-line Arguments
  • Pointers to Functions
  • Complicated Declarations
• Chapter 6: Structures
  • Basics of Structures
  • Structures and Functions
  • Arrays of Structures
  • Pointers to Structures
  • Self-referential Structures
  • Table Lookup
  • Typedef
  • Unions
  • Bit-fields
• Chapter 7: Input and Output
  • Standard Input and Output
  • Formatted Output - printf
  • Variable-length Argument Lists
  • Formatted Input - Scanf
  • File Access
  • Error Handling - Stderr and Exit
  • Line Input and Output
  • Miscellaneous Functions
• Chapter 8: The UNIX System Interface
  • File Descriptors
  • Low Level I/O - Read and Write
  • Open, Creat, Close, Unlink
  • Random Access - Lseek
  • Example - An implementation of Fopen and Getc
  • Example - A Storage Allocator