Kochan - Programming in C

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Fourth Edition

Stephen G. Kochan

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Programming in C, Fourth Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-77641-9

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014944082

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First Printing: August 2014

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For my mother and father

Stephen G. Kochan has been developing software with the C programming language for more than 30 years. He is the author of several best-selling titles on the C language, including Programming in C , Programming in Objective-C , and Topics in C Programming . He has also written extensively on Unix and is the author or coauthor of Exploring the Unix System and Unix Shell Programming .