Scholarly Resources for CompSci Undergrads

C Programming Language

This document is a flat index of all the HTML files I have about C that I've put together for undergrads at UWO. I have information about other related topics too in my Scholarly Resources for CompSci Undergrads document.

If you want to learn C

Advice I would give to someone who wanted to learn to program in C.

Notes about gcc

some advice for C programmers using the GNU C compiler

In Some Useful Technical Books

a list of books specifically about C (amongst other great books)

Versions of the New Testament Errata List

lists of corrections to various printings of the second edition of Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language

Annotations on K&R II

many notes and clarifications to help you when reading the second edition of Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language

How To Debug C

Slide Versions: PostScript® and HTML overheads for a lecture I gave about debugging C programs in 1994

Note Versions: PostScript®, PDF and HTML notes to accompany a similar lecture from 1999

In Debugging Tips

some advice specifically for C programmers

Frequent Mistakes in C Programs

List of common mistakes made by undergrad programmers at UWO. Based on a list of marking codes used in the CompSci department.

An Example of Data Encapsulation in C

a work-in-progress about how you can program in C

See Also

• Lysator C archive in Sweden
• related sites list at Lysator
• Henry Spencer's 10 Commandments for C Programmers (annoted version) at this site
• Local copy of Ian D. Allen's Improving and Fixing C Code (some examples drawn from classes at Algonquin College which used to be at <URL:http://www.algonquinc.on.ca/computerstudies/alleni/c_programming/improvecode.html>)
• Links which I think are now dead

  The C Language Online Journal

  <URL:http://www.cs.wustl.edu/%7ejxh/CLOJ/>

  a digest of useful information gleaned from the C Usenet groups

  PHOAKS comp.lang.c* section

  <URL:http://www.phoaks.com/comp/lang/c/index.html>

  PHOAKS is an acronym for `People Helping One Another Know Stuff'.  It is (or was) a collaborative filtering project.

• Author's Bookmark index
• Author's Homepage (at this site) and new/current homepage
• Author's Scholarly resources list
• Author's program source code
• Author's Teaching Materials Archive at other website

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~jamie/C/index.html

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