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Extreme C
Extreme C

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

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Key benefits

  • Make the most of C’s low-level control, flexibility, and high performance
  • A comprehensive guide to C’s most powerful and challenging features
  • A thought-provoking guide packed with hands-on exercises and examples

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There’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.

Who is this book for?

Extreme 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.

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

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Table of Contents

26 Chapters
Essential Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
From Source to Binary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Object Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Process Memory Structure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Stack and Heap Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
OOP and Encapsulation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Composition and Aggregation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Inheritance and Polymorphism Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Abstraction and OOP in C++ Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unix – History and Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
System Calls and Kernels Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Most Recent C Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Concurrency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Synchronization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Thread Execution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Thread Synchronization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Process Execution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Process Synchronization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Single-Host IPC and Sockets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Socket Programming Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integration with Other Languages Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unit Testing and Debugging Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Build Systems Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Michael Van de Velde Aug 29, 2023
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Very good book. Shipped fast. The chapters on OOP in C are really strong. Would gift this book to anybody who's trying to become a C master.
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Martin Gruscher Mar 07, 2023
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This one hit me by surprise. Of course I would be a book which contains "Extreme C" in its title :)Still I did not have any expectations, hoping I would get a decent treatment of C Programming, but it was really much more.A wonderful piece about programming and the inner workings of computers in general. I very much enjoyed the style of this author. This is easily one of my favourite IT/Programming books.
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ebjafer Jul 14, 2020
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Alles ok !
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Michael Nov 10, 2020
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the book is introducing concepts and demonstrate them with examples alongwith what could go wrong.laid out very nicely and references for more information is also given in case youfeel the need to go a bit deeper...i recommend reading the first two chapters even if you know some C.[EDIT]i didn't knew C as good as i thoughta must have classic on C.
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Donald Bosley May 04, 2023
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I've come to associate Packt as the publisher where anyone with a word processor can get published. This is not one of those books. This is far and away the deepest, most well written text I own on modern C. If there can only be one C book in your collection, this is it (Sorry K&R...). Material is well organized, concepts are clear, and the author's personal philosophies are suggestive rather than authoritarian (although he strikes me as an authority...). I'm 13 years deep in C, and 3 years in on owning this text and I keep re-opening it because the material is that rich. The "OOP in C" chapters are fairly unique for a C book, and probably my favorite sections - they've helped me codify how I think about embedded software stacks and re-usable code. The real "extreme" here, is the simultaneous breadth of topics covered along with their depths. Fantastic resource.
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