A Book on C

New edition of a tutorial and reference intended for both beginners and professional programmers. Contains numerous examples, extensive exercises, and step-by-step dissections of program code which illuminate the correct usage and syntax of C language constructs and reveal the underlying logic of their application. Emphasizes recursion, multifile programming, abstract data types, transitioning to C++, concepts of object-oriented programming, and transitioning from C to Java. Provides convenient tables for reference to key programming functions and C features. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ira Pohl is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, the C and C++ programming languages, practical complexity problems, heuristic search methods, deductive algorithms, and educational and social issues. He originated error analysis in heuristic search methods and deductive algorithms.

Professor Pohl was formerly a Mackay professor at University of California- Berkeley and a ZWO fellow in the Netherlands. He is the author or co-author of Object-Oriented Programming Using C++, C++ Distilled: A Concise Ansi/Iso Reference and Style Guide, C by Dissection: The Essentials of C Programming, A Book on C: Programming in C, C++ for C Programmers, C++ for Fortran Programmers, C++ for Pascal Programmers, and Turbo C: The Essentials of C Programming, all published by Addison-Wesley.

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