本书是全球畅销的C语言教程之一，系统介绍了C语言中控制语句、函数、数组、指针、字符/字符串、格式化输入/输出、联合/位操作/枚举、文件处理、数据结构、预处理器、类与对象、运算符重载、继承、多态、模板、流输入/输出、异常处理等功能，是讲授C语言编程的全景式教材。

本书是全球畅销的C语言教程之一。全书系统介绍了4种流行的程序设计方法——面向过程、基于对象、面向对象以及泛型编程，内容全面、生动、易懂，由浅入深地介绍了结构化编程和软件工程的基本概念，从简单的概念到最终完整的语言描述，清晰、准确、透彻、详细地讲解C语言，尤其注重程序设计思想和方法的介绍。在内容方面，本书新增加了介绍C99标准、排序、基于Allegro C函数库的游戏编程以及有关C++面向对象程序设计的章节，并且在附录中增加了Sudoku戏程序设计的讲解。“活代码”方法是本书的另一特色，它可以促进学生积极地参与到程序设计中来。书中列出的各种程序设计提示，是作者多年教学经验的总结。

本书不仅适合于初学者学习，作为高校计算机程序设计教学的教科书，也同样适用于有经验的程序员，作为软件开发人员的专业参考书。

Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the Web

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 What Is a Computer?

 1.3 Computer Organization

 1.4 Early Operating Systems

 1.5 Personal, Distributed and Client /Server Computing

 1.6 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages

 1.7 Fortran, COBOL, Pascal and Ada

 1.8 History of C

 1.9 C Standard Library

 1.10 C++

 1.11 Java

 1.12 BASIC, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C# and .NET

 1.13 Key Software Trend: Object Technology

 1.14 Typical C Program Development Environment

 1.15 Hardware Trends

 1.16 History of the Internet

 1.17 History of the World Wide Web

 1.18 Notes About C and This Book

 1.19 Web Resources

Chapter 2 Introduction to C Programming

Chapter 3 Structured Program Development in C

Chapter 4 C Program Control

Chapter 5 C Functions

Chapter 6 C Arrays

Chapter 7 C Pointers

Chapter 8 C Characters and Strings

Chapter 9 C Formatted Input/Output

Chapter 10 C Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulations and Enumerations

Chapter 11 C File Processing

Chapter 12 C Data Structures

Chapter 13 C Preprocessor

Chapter 14 Other C Topics

Chapter 15 Game Programming with the Allegro C Library

Chapter 16 Sorting: A Deeper Look

Chapter 17 Introduction to C99

Chapter 18 C++ as a Better C; Introducing Object Technology

Chapter 19 Introduction to Classes and Objects

Chapter 20 Classes: A Deeper Look, Part 1

Chapter 21 Classes: A Deeper Look, Part 2

Chapter 22 Operator Overloading

Chapter 23 Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Chapter 24 Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

Chapter 25 Templates

Chapter 26 Stream Input/Output

Chapter 27 Exception Handling

Appendix A Internet and Web Resources

Appendix B Operator Precedence Charts

Appendix C ASCII Character Set

Appdndix D Number Systems

Appendix E Game Programming: Solving Sudoku

Index