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- Author: Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran
- Format: PDF, online HTML
- Price: free
This is not a tutorial introduction to programming. The book is designed for programmers who already have some experience of using a modern high-level procedural programming language. As we explain later, C isn’t really appropriate for complete beginners, though many have managed to use it, so the book will assume that its readers have already done battle with the notions of statements, variables, conditional execution, arrays, procedures (or subroutines) and so on. Instead of wasting your time by ploughing through tedious descriptions of how to add two numbers together and explaining that the symbol for multiplication is *, the book concentrates on the things that are special to C. In particular, it’s the way that C is used which is emphasized.
Chapters Include:
- An Introduction to C
- Variables and Arithmetic
- Control of Flow and Logical Expressions
- Functions
- Arrays and Pointers
- Structured Data Types
- The Preprocessor
- Specialized Areas of C
- Libraries
- Complete Programs in C
- Answers to Exercises
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/
- Author: CodeGear
- Format: archived HTML
- Price: free
This is a zipped HTML version of Win32 section of the original help files that were included with RAD Studio 2007 and C++ Builder 2007. It is also relevant to Delphi 2007.
A CodeGear Developer Network membership is needed in order to download the .zip file. Registration is free.
Contents include:
- Developing Reports for Your Win32 Applications
- Debugging C++ Applications with CodeGuard Error Reporting
- C++ Examples
- C++ Reference
- Win32 Developer’s Guide
- Developing Windows Applications with Win32 Forms
- Windows Overview
- Developing a Windows Application
- Procedures
- Database Procedures
- Interoperable Applications Procedures
- Reporting Procedures
- VCL Procedures
- Web Services Procedures
- WebSnap Procedures
- Developing Web Applications with WebSnap
- Win32 Web Applications Overview
- Building a WebSnap Application
- Developing Web Services with Win32 Applications
- Developing Database Applications for the Win32 Platform
- dbGo Overview
- dbExpress Components
- BDE Overview
- Getting Started with InterBase Express
- Developing Applications with VCL Components
- Developing COM Applications
http://cc.codegear.com/Item/24686
- Author: Steven T. Shaughnessy, Jens Ole Lauridsen
- Format: archived PDF
- Price: free
Blackfish SQL is a high-performance, small-footprint, transactional database that was originally implemented as an all-Java database called JDataStore. This is now called Blackfish SQL for Java.
Blackfish SQL was then ported from Java to C#. The C# implementation is called Blackfish SQL for Windows.
This book is intended for developers implementing Blackfish SQL database applications and system administrators responsible for installing, deploying, and maintaining Blackfish SQL databases.
A CodeGear Developer Network membership is needed in order to download the .zip file. Registration is free.
Chapters include:
- Overview
- System Architecture
- Establishing Connections
- Administering Blackfish SQL
- Using Blackfish SQL Security
- Using Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions
- Using Triggers in Blackfish SQL Tables
- Stored Procedures Reference
- SQL Reference
- Optimizing Blackfish SQL Applications
- Deploying Blackfish SQL Database Applications
- Troubleshooting
http://cc.codegear.com/Item/24980
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