Extreme C: Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

DescriptionThere’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer.
Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications.
C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing.
In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.
What you will learn
Build advanced C knowledge on strong foundations, rooted in first principles
Understand memory structures and compilation pipeline and how they work, and how to make most out of them
Apply object-oriented design principles to your procedural C code
Write low-level code that’s close to the hardware and squeezes maximum performance out of a computer system
Master concurrency, multithreading, multi-processing, and integration with other languages
Unit Testing and debugging, build systems, and inter-process communication for C programming
Who this book is forExtreme C is for C programmers who want to dig deep into the language and its capabilities. It will help you make the most of the low-level control C gives you.
Table of Contents
Essential Features
From Source to Binary
Object Files
Process Memory Structure
Stack and Heap
OOP and Encapsulation
Composition and Aggregation
Inheritance and Polymorphism
Abstraction and OOP in C++
Unix: History and Architecture
System Calls and Kernels
The Most Recent C
Concurrency
Synchronization
Thread Execution
Thread Synchronization
Process Execution
Process Synchronization
Single-Host IPC and Sockets
Socket Programming
Integration with Other Languages
Unit Testing and Debugging
Build Systems