Extreme C

Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

Kamran Amini 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2019년 10월 31일 출간

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▶Book Description
There's a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C's advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer.

Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications.

C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing.

In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.

▶What You Will Learn
- Build advanced C knowledge on strong foundations, rooted in first principles
- Understand memory structures and compilation pipeline and how they work, and how to make most out of them
- Apply object-oriented design principles to your procedural C code
- Write low-level code that's close to the hardware and squeezes maximum performance out of a computer system
- Master concurrency, multithreading, multi-processing, and integration with other languages
- Unit Testing and debugging, build systems, and inter-process communication for C programming

▶Key Features
- Make the most of C's low-level control, flexibility, and high performance
- A comprehensive guide to C's most powerful and challenging features
- A thought-provoking guide packed with hands-on exercises and examples

▶Who This Book Is For
Extreme C is for C programmers who want to dig deep into the language and its capabilities. It will help you make the most of the low-level control C gives you.

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
1. Essential Features
2. From Source to Binary
3. Object Files
4. Process Memory Structure
5. Stack and Heap
6. OOP and Encapsulation
7. Composition and Aggregation
8. Inheritance and Polymorphism
9. Abstraction and OOP in C++
10. Unix ？ History and Architecture
11. System Calls and Kernels
12. The Most Recent C
13. Concurrency
14. Synchronization
15. Thread Execution
16. Thread Synchronization
17. Process Execution
18. Process Synchronization
19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets
20. Socket Programming
21. Integration with Other Languages
22. Unit Testing and Debugging
23. Build Systems

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▶ Preface
In this modern era, we observe mind-blowing technologies on a regular basis and experience luxury and pleasure far beyond what could have been imagined even a few decades ago. We find ourselves on the cusp of autonomous c ars becoming a reality on our streets. Advances in physics and other branches of science are changing the way we perceive reality itself. We read news about researchers taking baby steps in quantum computation, rumors about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, and plans to colonize other planets. Unbelievably, such a diversity of breakthroughs find their roots in just a few core t echnologies. This book is about one of those technologies: C.

I started programming with C++ when I was studying in my first y ear of high school. There, I joined a 2D soccer simulation team for juniors . Soon after C++, I got introduced to Linux and C. I must admit that I didn't know much about the importance of C and Unix in those years, but over time, as I gained more experience in using them through various projects, and as I lea rned about them through my education, I came to see their critical role and position. The more I knew about C, the bigger my respect for it grew. Finally, I decided to be an expert in this programming language that had so captured my interest. I also decided to be an advocate to spread the knowledge and make people aware of the importance of C. This book is a result of that ambition.

Despite the mistaken belief that C is a dead language, and despite the general ignorance that C receives from tech people, the TIOBE index found at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index demonstrates otherwise. C is, in fact, one of the most popular programming languages of the past 15 years, together with Java, and has gained popularity in recent years.

I come to this book following many years of experience in development and design using C, C++, Golang, Java, and Python on various platforms including various BSD Unix flavors, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. The prim ary aim of this book is to increase the skill of its audience to the next level; to enable them to take the next step in their use of C, and practically apply it in a way that comes through hard-earned experience. This won't be an easy journey f or us and that's why we've called this book Extreme C. This journey is the core concern of this book, and we will not be entering into the debate of C versus other programming languages. This book tries to remain practical, but still we have to deal with a significant quantity of hardcore theory that is relevant to prac tical application. The book is full of examples that aim to prepare you to deal with the things you will encounter within a real system.

It is indeed a great honor to be able to address such a weighty topic. Words won't suffice, so I'll only say that it has been an incredible joy to have the opportunity to write about a topic that is so close to my heart. And I owe this pleasure and astonishment to Andrew Waldron, who let me take on this book as my first experience in book writing.

As part of this, I want to send my special regards and best thanks to Ian Hough, the Development Editor, who was with me chapter by chapter on t his journey, to Aliakbar Abbasi for his tireless peer review feedback, and to Kishor Rit, Gaurav Gavas, Veronica Pais, and many more valuable people who have put their best efforts into preparing and publishing this book.

With that said, I invite you to be my companion on this long jo urney. I hope that the reading of this book will prove to be transformative, helping you to see C in a new light, and to become a better programmer in the process.

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저자(글) Kamran Amini

임베디드 및 커널 전문 개발자. 이란의 여러 유명 회사에서 시니어 엔지니어, 아키텍트, 컨설턴트, CTO로 근무했다. 2017년에는 유럽으로 건너가 제퍼슨(Jeppesen), 아데코(Adecco), 톰톰 (TomTom), 액티브비디오 네트웍스(ActiveVideo Networks)와 같은 명망 높은 회사에서 시니어 아키텍트 겸 엔지니어로 근무했다. 주된 관심 분야는 컴퓨터 이론, 분산 시스템, 머신러닝, 정보 이론, 양자 컴퓨터이다. 직업적 커리어를 쌓으면서 천문학과 행성학도 공부한다. 우주의 초기 발생, 블랙홀의 기하학, 양자장론, 끈 이론 분야에 학술적 관심을 두고 있다.