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C A Software Engineering Approach

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Peter A. Darnell

    1. Visual Solutions, Westford, USA

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  2. Philip E. Margolis

    1. Rockport, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction to Programming

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 1-8

  3. Introduction to Software Engineering

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 9-30

  4. C Essentials

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 31-56

  5. Scalar Data Types

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 57-91

  6. Control Flow

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 92-125

  7. Operators and Expressions

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 126-163

  8. Arrays and Pointers

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 164-211

  9. Storage Classes

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 212-235

  10. Structures and Unions

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 236-269

  11. Functions

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 270-303

  12. The C Preprocessor

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 304-325

  13. Input and Output

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 326-354

  14. Software Engineering—A Case Study

    • Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
    Pages 355-375

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 376-497
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About this book

to Software Engineering For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar. Shakespeare, Hamlet In the previous chapter, we introduced same basic information about pro­ gramming and programming languages, particularly C. If this were a book about building bridges, this first chapter might have been an introduction to the tools you would neeci-hammer, saw, drill, etc. Obviously there is a lot more to building a good bridge than simply knowing how to use the tools. Similarly, creating software products requires considerably more skill than simply wielding the programming tools. There is an entire discipline called software engineering that deals with designing, creating, testing, and maintaining large software products. In this chapter we introduce some key software engineering themes, many of which we will revisit through­ out the course of the book. 10 2: Introduction to Software Engineering 2.1 Introduction Though the cost of computer hardware-the silicon chips containing the millions of transistors that form the instruction set and memories-has shown a consistent trend downward over the years, the cost of software has not followed suit. The high cost of software is due largely (and para­ doxically) to the ease and flexibility with which it can be shaped.

Reviews

"Rarely does an introductory book on a programming language balance the basic and the advanced so well." - Computer Reviews
"Outstanding textbook for novice C users." - Computer Book Review
"Excellent for a systematic person who wants a running start in C." - UnixWorld

Authors and Affiliations

  • Visual Solutions, Westford, USA

    Peter A. Darnell

  • Rockport, USA

    Philip E. Margolis

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