Software design practice in C [closed]

Question

For OOP languages, there are many books describing how to design software, and design patterns are mainly for OOP languages.

I am wondering whether there are any books/good articles teaching how to use C in a big project, like it is a good practice to use static functions when this function is only used in a single file.

Answer 1

G'day,

While heavily focused on C++, John Lakos's excellent book "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" has a lot of information that is very relevant to the design of software written in C.

Edit: Oooh. After seeing @Jackson's suggestion for the excellent "The Practice of Programming" I'd also highly recommend Eric Raymond's excellent book "The Art of UNIX Programming.". Thanks for the reminder @Jackson.

HTH

cheers,

Answer 2

If you want a more C specific book then you could look at The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike.

NB: I've always thought of OOP as a way of looking at design; the fact that some languages provide explicit support for it is nice but not esssential.