Emphasizing skills for real-world programming, this guide covers not only the mechanics of C programming, but also the entire life cycle of a C program. This third edition introduces popular integrated development environments on Windows systems, as well as UNIX programming utilities, and features a large statistics-generating program to pull together the concepts and features in the language. Chapters on basics review the software life cycle and teach readers to write very simple programs. Later chapters describe simple statements and operators used in programming and how to order them into simple functions, then turn to advanced programming, showing how to use the basic declarations already covered to construct structures, unions, and classes. Oualline works as a software engineer for a major phone company. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)