Yung-Hsiang Lu is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA. He is a fellow of the IEEE and distinguished scientist of the ACM. He is the first director of Purdue's John Martinson Entrepreneurial Center. His research areas include computer vision and embedded systems. He received the PhD. from Electrical Engineering of Stanford University, California, USA.

George K. Thiruvathukal is a professor and chairperson in the Computer Science department at Loyola University Chicago. He is a senior member of IEEE. His research areas include parallel and distributed systems, software engineering, and computer visions. He received the PhD. from Illinois Institute of Technology.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword for the First Edition

Recommendations for the First Edition

Preface

Acknowledgements

Source Code

Author and Artist

I Storage: Memory and File

1. Program Execution

2. Stack Memory

3. Prevent, Detect and Remove Bugs

4. Pointers

5. Writing and Testing Programs

6. Strings

7. Heap Memory

8. Programming Problems Using Heap Memory

9. Reading and Writing Files

10. Programming Problems Using File

11. Array Index, Security and Trends

12. Version Control

II Recursion

13. Concept

14. Recursive C Functions

15. Integer Partition

16. Programming Problems Using Recursion

III Structure

17. Programmer-Defined Data Types

18. Programming Problems Using Structure

19. Linked Lists

20. Programming Problems Using Linked List

21. Binary Search Tree

22. Parallel Programming Using Threads

23. Unit Test

IV Applications

24. Find the Exit of a Maze

25. Sudoku

26. Image Processing

27. Huffman Compression

Index

Epilogue: The Computer Engineer as Tool-User