Further Reading

Overview

This lesson provides additional resources that can enhance your understanding of the puzzles covered. These resources are grouped by each puzzle to help you navigate through different C concepts more effectively. Use these resources to learn more and gain a better understanding of the topics that we covered.

Note: The resources provided are not limited to C language; you may find them in other programming languages as well.

Additional resources

Here are the resources to explore for each puzzle:

Count the Digits

Explore key concepts related to formatting and printing in C.

• Format specifiers

• printf function

A Fraction of an Int

Dive into typecasting and its implications.

• Typecasting in C++

• Explicit casting in C#

String or Not?

Understand the fundamentals of strings and their operations in C.

• Strings

• String concatenation

Hello, stdin

Learn about buffering and input/output handling in C.

• fflush

• Buffer

Loop Up and Down

Examine the mechanics of loops and their use in C.

• Loops

• For loop

String Construction

Discover the intricacies of constructing and managing strings in C.

• Strings

• Null-character terminated string

More Simple

Understand the basics of number theory concepts.

• Euclidean algorithm in Python

• GCD in C

Whoa! Hold on There

Learn about the dangers of buffer overflow and how to prevent it.

• Buffer overflow

• ArrayIndexOutofBound in Java

Say It Again—Or Not

Explore the do-while loop and its specific use cases in C.

• Loops

• Do-while loop

Deciphering scanf()

Understand the nuances of using scanf() safely and effectively.

• scanf

• Data reading using scanf

What is Nothing?

Differentiate between zero and NULL in C programming.

• Difference between zero and NULL

On the Case

Explore how character encoding and bitwise operations are handled.

• ASCII

• Bit manipulation in Java

Bits and Pieces

Learn about binary numbers and bitwise mathematics.

• Negative binary numbers

• Twos complement

Teeny Tiny Math

Dive deeper into bit manipulation and related operations.

• Bit shift operation

• Bit manipulation in Java

• Bit masking in Python

It Just Can’t Be Done

Explore the limitations and intricacies of primitive data types.

• For loop

• Primitive data types in C++

Misallocation

Understand memory alignment and its significance in C.

• The sizeof() function

Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mod

Examine the modulo operator and its implications.

• Modulo operator in Python

• Division by zero exception in Java

Superhero’s Secret Identity

Discover the power of pointers and how they relate to arrays.

• Pointers

• Difference between arrays and pointers

Cursing Recursion

Understand the concept of recursion and its application.

• Recursion

Time to Pull Out Your Hair

Learn about memory allocation and pointers in C.

• Memory allocation

• Constant pointer

You See It Everywhere

Explore the Fibonacci sequence and its implementations.

• Fibonacci sequence

• Implementation of Fibonacci sequence in Python

Calculating Nested Values

Dive into mathematical constants and their calculations.

• PI(π)

Forget the sqrt() Function

Explore alternative methods for calculating square roots.

• Square root in C#

This Should Ring a Bell

Understand the harmonic series and its applications.

• Harmonic series in Python

More Math, but Fun This Time

Learn about the golden ratio and its significance.

• Golden ratio, the “divine proportion”