Advanced C Struct Programming: Data Structure Design and Implementation in C

By John W. L. Ogilvie

Now available for your professional programming use is this invaluable guide which presents a practical method for designing and implementing complex data structures in the C language. The method used consists of two parts: the plan and the framework. The framework offers you a structure for organizing knowledge about data structures, while the plan is an algorithm for using the framework's resources to design and implement data structures. Designed to be flexible and grow with you, this method also incorporates useful tricks, guidelines, and techniques gleaned from over seven years of programming experience. It picks up where others end and is not a cookbook of C networking code, graphics routines or any other particular application area. It will in fact be useful and work for a wide range of programs, including interpreters, word processors, string pattern matchers, simulators, window managers, games, and database editing libraries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047151943X
• ISBN13: 9780471519430
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

The Honus Wagner of C Programming Books

Who is Honus Wagner you ask? I think the more important question here is... who is John W. L. Ogilvie. Honus Wagner was a baseball player and his trading card is a highly valued collector's item. This book isn't a starter book for C programming but it is as the title says, a book for advanced C programming. But, I think you might want to know more about the author. John Wilbur Lester Ogilvie was born in rural Canonsburg, Pennsylvania to a father who worked at the local steel mill and whose mother worked as a nurse. Times were tough a couple years later after his birth and the family moved to Malibu, California for a better life. There, John was raised and learned everything he wanted to know about his first love, dance. At the tender age of 18, John wrote and choreographed his first one-man dance show. Unfortunately, it was a flop. His critics, colleagues, and friends scoffed at the performance. Most considered it a pointless waste of time, and most thought that John was not an accomplished dancer or choreographer. This was a turning point in John's life. Reality hit him in the face. Looking back, it was best that he tried before he embarassed himself in front actual dancers. His one-man dance show was called "Jump!" and it was basically a 20-minute show of John doing jumping jacks, push-ups, and squat thrusts to the music of the "William Tell Overture". It was quite an aerobic endeavour but completely lacking in any dance skills. Sally Goldstein, the high school's theater and dance teacher, said "My four year old could have done that." After high school, John attended the local community college in computer science and completed post-graduate degrees. He is now an accomplished programmer... but every now and then, you can see him perform "Jump!"... in his backyard.