在计算机发展的历史上,没有哪一种程序设计语言像C语言这样应用广泛。本书是C语言的设计者之一Dennis M.Ritchie和**计算机科学家Brian W.Kernighan合著的一本介绍C语言的权威经典著作。我们现在见到的大量论述C语言程序设计的教材和专著均以此书为蓝本。本书第1版中介绍的C语言成为后来广泛使用的C语言版本——标准C的基础。人们熟知的“hello,World"程序就是由本书**引入的。现在,这一程序已经成为众多程序设计语言入门的**课。
第2版根据1987年制定的ANSIC标准做了适当的修订,引入了*新的语言形式,并增加了新的示例。通过简洁的描述、典型的示例,作者全面、系统、准确地讲述了C语言的各个特性以及程序设计的基本方法。对于计算机从业人员来说,本书是一本必读的程序设计语言方面的参考书。

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第1版序
Introduction
Chapter 1.A Tutorial Introduction
1.1 Getting Started
1.2 Variables and Arithmetic Expressions
1.3 The For Statement
1.4 Symbolic Constants
1.5 Character Input and Output
1.6 Arrays
1.7 Functions
1.8 Arguments-Call aby Value
1.9 Character Arrays
1.10 External Variables and Scope
Chapter 2.Types,Operators,and Expressions
2.1 Variable Names
2.2 Data Types and Sizes
2.3 Constants
2.4 Declarations
2.5 Arithmetic Cperators
2.6 Relational and Logical Operators
2.7 Type Conversions
2.8 Increment and Decrement Operators
2.9 Bitwise Operators
2.10 Assignment Operators and Expressions
2.11 Conditional Expressions
2.12 Precedence and Order of Evaluation
Chapter 3.Control Flow
3.1 Statements and Blocks
3.2 If-Else
3.3 Else-If
3.4 Switch
3.5 Loops-While and For
3.6 Loops-Do-while
3.7 Break and Continue
3.8 Goto and Labels
Chapter 4.Functions and Program Structure
4.1 Basics of Functions
4.2 Functions Returning Non-integers
4.3 External Variables
4.4 Scope Rules
4.5 Header Files
4.6 Static Variables
4.7 Register Variables
4.8 Block Structure
4.9 Initialization
4.10 Recursion
4.11 The C Preprocessor
Chapter 5.Pointers and Arrays
5.1 Pointers and Addresses
5.2 Pointers and Function Arguments
5.3 Pointers and Arrays
5.4 Address Arithmetic
5.5 Character Pointers and Functions
5.6 Pointer Arrays;Pointers to Pointers
5.7 Multi-dimensional Arrays
5.8 Initialization of Pointer Arrays
5.9 Pointers vs Multi-dimensional Arrays
5.10 Command-line Argunents
5.11 Pointers to Functions
5.12 Complicated Declarations
Chapter 6.Structures
6.1 Basics of Structures
6.2 Strucures and Functions
6.3 Arrays of Structures
6.4 Pointers to Structures
6.5 Self-referential Structures
6.6 Table Lookup
6.7 Typedef
6.8 Bit-fields
Chapter 7.Input and Output
7.1 Standard Input and Output
7.2 Formatted Output-Printf
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Chapter8.The UNIX System Interface
Appendix A.Reference Manual
Appendix B.Standard Library
Appendix C.Summary of Changes
Index