C For Fortran Programmers
by T. D. Brown, Jr.
ISBN 0-929306-01-5
1990
220 pages, Paperback
$34.95 (US Dollars)

 Summary    Contents 

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  • General Comments about C
  • A Quick Tour of the C Language
  • Final Comments
  • Exercises
• FORTRAN Facilities Present in C & Vice Versa
  • General Comments about C
  • Basics of C
  • Fundamental Types
  • Derived Types
  • Operators & Expressions
  • Variable Initialization
  • Statements
  • Functions
  • Input/Output
  • Commonly Used Input/Output Functions
  • Error Trapping
  • Program Termination
  • Exercises
• C Facilities Not in FORTRAN
  • C Preprocessor
  • Types
  • Operators
  • Statements
  • Functions
  • Storage Classes
  • Signal Handling
  • Exercises
• Functions
  • Function Definitions
  • Function Prototypes (Declarations)
  • Function Calls
  • Argument Passing
  • Function Result & Completion
  • Recursion
  • Static Variables
  • Communication Between Functions
  • Function Names as Arguments
  • Variable Number of Arguments
  • Independent Compilation
  • Interrupt (Signal) Handling
  • Program Termination
  • Accessing Operating System Facilities
  • Calling Routines Written in Other Languages
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• Pointers
  • Void Pointers
  • Allocating & Deallocating Storage
  • Pointer Arithmetic
  • Lists: An Example of Pointer Use
  • Pointers & Arrays
  • Dynamic Arrays
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• C Preprocessor
  • Macro Definitions
  • Sets: An Example of Parameterized Macros
  • File Inclusion
  • Conditional Compilation
  • Avoiding Multiple File Inclusions
  • Exercises
• Large Examples
  • Temperature Distribution
  • The Bank Teller Program
  • The Text Formatter
• FORTRAN Facilities Not in C
• Appendix: C Library Functions
  • Character Processing
  • Math
  • Non-Local Jumps
  • Signal Handling
  • Variable Arguments
  • Input/Output
  • General Utility
  • String Processing
• Bibliography
• Index