B. M. Harwani - Practical C Programming: Solutions for modern C developers to create efficient and well-structured programs

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B. M. Harwani is the founder of Microchip Computer Education, based in Ajmer, India, which provides computer literacy in programming and web development to learners of all ages. He further helps the community by sharing the knowledge and expertise he's gained over 20 years of teaching by writing books. His recent publications include jQuery Recipes, published by Apress, Introduction to Python Programming and Developing GUI Applications with PyQT, published by Cengage Learning, The Android Tablet Developer's Cookbook, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, UNIX and Shell Programming, published by Oxford University Press, and Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook, published by Packt.

Nibedit Dey is a software engineer turned serial entrepreneur with over 9 years of experience in building complex software-based products using C and C++. He has been involved in developing new medical devices, oscilloscopes, advanced showering systems, automotive dashboards, and infotainment systems. He is passionate about cutting-edge technologies. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, he worked for L&T and Tektronix in different R&D roles. He has also reviewed several books on C and C++ programming for Packt.

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This book is on the C programming language and explores all the important elements of C, such as strings, arrays (including one-dimensional and two-dimensional arrays), functions, pointers, file handling, threads, inter-process communication, database handling, advanced data structures, graphs, and graphics. As this book takes the cookbook approach, the reader will find independent solutions to different problems that they usually come across while making applications. By the end of the book, the reader will have sufficient knowledge to use high- as well as low-level features of the C language and will be able to apply this knowledge to making real-time applications.

This book is meant for intermediate to advanced programmers and developers who want to make complex and real-time applications in C programming. This book will be of great use for trainers, teachers, and software developers who get stuck while making applications with arrays, pointers, functions, structures, files, databases, inter-process communication, advanced data structures, graphs, and graphics, and wish to see a walkthrough example to find the way out of a given problem.

, Working with Arrays, covers some complex but essential operations with arrays. You will learn how to insert an element into an array, multiply two matrices, find the common elements in two arrays, and also how to find the difference between two sets or arrays. Also, you will learn how to find the unique elements in an array and will encounter a technique to help you find out whether a given matrix is a sparse matrix or not. Lastly, we'll look at the procedure to merge two sorted arrays into one array.