Description

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Effective C, 2nd edition, is an introduction to essential C language programming that will soon have you writing programs, solving problems, and building working systems.

The world runs on code written in the C programming language, yet most schools begin the curriculum with Python or Java. Effective C bridges this gap and brings C into the modern era--updated to the latest C23 standard. With the aid of this instant classic, you'll soon be writing professional, portable, and secure C programs to power robust systems and solve real-world problems.

Robert C. Seacord introduces C and the C standard library while addressing best practices, common errors, and open debates in the C community. Developed together with other C standards committee experts, Effective C will teach you how to debug, test, and analyze C programs. You'll benefit from Seacord's concise explanations of C language constructs and behaviors, and from his 40 years of coding experience.

About the Author

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Robert C. Seacord is the standardization lead at Woven by Toyota, where he works on the software craft. Robert was previously a technical director at NCC Group, secure coding manager at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, and an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon. Robert is the convener of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14, the international standardization working group for the C programming language. He is the author of other books, including The CERT(R) C Coding Standard, 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, 2014); Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, 2013); and Java Coding Guidelines: 75 Recommendations for Reliable and Secure Programs (Addison-Wesley, 2014). He has also published more than 50 papers on software security, component-based software engineering, web-based system design, legacy-system modernization, component repositories and search engines, and user interface design and development.