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This book is most likely a monumental undertaking for a beginner programmer, or even a programmer with no experience with many of the topics covered inside. You have successfully learned an introductory amount of knowledge of C, testing, secure coding, algorithms, data structures, unit testing, and general applied problem solving. Congratulations. You should be a much better programmer now.

I recommend that you now go read other books on the C programming language. You can’t go wrong with The C Programming Language (Prentice Hall 1988) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, the creators of the C language. My book teaches you an initial, practical version of C that gets the job done, mostly as a means of teaching you other topics. ...

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