This inexpensive book, extensively tested in several academic and professional settings, provides a gentle, but complete, introduction to the C programming language in both the original and the current editions. The first part of the book provides a gentle introduction to programming in C. It provides enough information for a practicing scientist or engineer to be able to write substantial programs to solve their scientific problems using existing C libraries. Extensive program examples are included to illustrate the major concepts of the C programming language.
This book also illustrates the way that modern software engineering is typically done, by showing how a major software design and development project cane implemented in the C language.
