C in a Nutshell

With the new edition of this classic book, you'll learn the 2011 standard C language in easy, exact terms. Every C programmer who needs to know the effects of an unfamiliar function, or to understand how the standard requires it to behave, can find it here. The book is also a convenient way to explore the concepts of the language, including recently added features.

• Covers the current version of one of the most important programming languages
• Comprehensive yet easy to search through and read
• New edition includes multithreading and an introduction to IDEs
• Covers building and debugging

Peter is a seminar leader and key course developer, teaching courses to thousands of software developers for Unix and Windows systems. As the chief developer and cofounder of the IT company Authensis AG in Germany, he has gained extensive experience in software development for computer telephony. Peter is also the author of several other books on software development in C/C++, most of them as co-author with Ulla Kirch-Prinz, including O'Reilly's "C Pocket Reference".

Tony Crawford is a technical-writer and freelance translator with a strong C background based just outside Berlin, Germany. In addition to regular software localization projects, he has translated books on network administration and ATM. A US native, Tony completed undergraduate work at Occidental College, Los Angeles; Universit de Perpignan, France; and Technische Universit t, Berlin. Tony translates from German into English.