Master essential C programming skills to develop efficient and reliable system software and applications. Whether you are a system, network, or cloud engineerthis comprehensive guide is designed to help you tackle complex C programming challenges.
Throughout this book, you will start by learning basic computer system architecture and essential operating systems concepts to implement reliable and efficient C code. You will then progress through essential C programming skills, including arrays, strings, unions, pointers, and memory management, while practicing runtime error handling and best practices. Next, you will be ready for more advanced topics, like system and network programming, before concluding with a deep dive into Linux namespaces and their role in virtualization in cloud environments.
With an emphasis on real-world applications and best practices, this book allows you to experiment with the foundational and advanced constructs for important use cases.
What You Will Learn:
Implement reliable C programming techniques for handing arrays, struct, pointers, and memory. Inspect and manage C processes and threads in a runtime environment. Learn essential C socket programming skills, error handing, and usage of socket options to handle network applications reliability. Master fundamentals of virtualization concepts using C programming and Linux namespaces.
Who This Book is for:
Beginner System, Network and Cloud Engineers, though intermediate and advanced users will also benefit from mastering essential skill sand exploring advanced coverage.
Chapter
1. Basic Computer System Architecture and Essential Operating
System Concepts.
Chapter
2. Quick Revision of Powerful C Constructs.-
Chapter
3. Practice C Programming with Important Tools.
Chapter
4. Power of
C: Pointers.
Chapter
5. C Programming for Memory Management.
Chapter
6.
Process and Thread Management Tasks for C Programmers.
Chapter
7. Handle
Inter Process Activities using C Programming.
Chapter
8. Essential Network
Socket Programming Skills.
Chapter
9. Essential Advanced Socket Programming
Methods Using C Sockets.
Chapter
10. Learn C Programming Skills for
Virtualization.
Dr. Anil Kumar Rangisetti received his PhD in the field of computer science and engineering from IIT Hyderabad. He has nearly 10 years of teaching and research experience in computer science and engineering. Currently heis working as Assistant Professor in the Department of CSE, IIITDM Kurnool. During his career, he has worked at prestigious Indian institutions such as IIIT Dharwad, SRM-AP, and GMR, and worked at MNC such as ARICENT,IRL-Delhi. He trained the students in how to design new simulators and applications at his work places.
Broadly his research interests include Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, SDN, NFV, and edge computing. He has published a number ofnovel research publications with IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley in the field of a variety of networking technologies such as LTE, SDN and NFV, Wi-Fi technologies. His portfolio includes books related to OOP, networking,NFV, VNF, cloud and ns-3 simulations.
He brings with him academic and professional experience, which includes time spent at Aricent and IBM research lab. Additionally, he enjoys writing and reviewing books on Wireless Networking Technologies, Network Simulations, Docker, Drone simulations,Emulators, SDN, Edge Computing, Object oriented programming, C, and Python.
