Professional and Applied Computing

The updated classic from author, lecturer, and respected academic Ivor Horton, Beginning C, Third Edition is the essential guide for anyone looking to learn the C language from the ground up. It is a highly recommended text for training courses and continuing education students, and assumes no prior working knowledge of C.

By reading this book, youll come to understand the fundamentals of the C language and learn how to program. All you need is this book and any one of the widely available free or commercial C or C++ compliers, and you''ll soon be writing real C programs.

Youll learn C from the first principles, using step-by-step working examples that you''ll create and execute yourself. This book will increase your programming expertise by guiding you through the development of fully-working C applications that use what you''ve learned in a practical context. You''ll also be able to strike out on your own by trying the exercises included at the end of each chapter.