Everything about C preprocessor

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: C preprocessorA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Hybrid Preprocessor DE-ABC for Efficient Skin-Lesion Segmentation with Improved ContrastInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The C Programming LanguageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessorCited 30,433 times
5. Go sideways: Include directiveA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Include guardA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor

  Shifu Chen, Yanqing Zhou, Yaru Chen · 2018 · Bioinformatics · 30,433 citations

• The kinetic preprocessor KPP-a software environment for solving chemical kinetics

  Valeriu Damian, Adrian Sandu, Mirela Damian · 2002 · Computers & Chemical Engineering · 370 citations

• Technical note: Simulating chemical systems in Fortran90 and Matlab with the Kinetic PreProcessor KPP-2.1

  A. Sandu, R. Sander · 2006 · Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · 263 citations

• ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED FAULT DIAGNOSTICS OF ROTATING MACHINERY USING WAVELET TRANSFORMS AS A PREPROCESSOR

  B.A. Paya, I.I. Esat, M.N.M. Badi · 1997 · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing · 254 citations

• Textile geometry preprocessor for meso-mechanical models of woven composites

  S.V. Lomov, A.V. Gusakov, G. Huysmans · 2000 · Composites Science and Technology · 244 citations

• Neural-network based analog-circuit fault diagnosis using wavelet transform as preprocessor

  M. Aminian, F. Aminian · 2000 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing · 190 citations

• A New Neural-Network-Based Fault Diagnosis Approach for Analog Circuits by Using Kurtosis and Entropy as a Preprocessor

  Lifen Yuan, Yigang He, Jiaoying Huang · 2010 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 187 citations

• Consistent 3D geometrical model of fabric elementary cell. Application to a meshing preprocessor for 3D finite element analysis

  Gilles Hivet, Philippe Boisse · 2005 · Finite Elements in Analysis and Design · 163 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Hybrid Preprocessor DE-ABC for Efficient Skin-Lesion Segmentation with Improved Contrast

  Shairyar Malik, Tallha Akram, Imran Ashraf · 2022 · Diagnostics · 17 citations

• Adaptive Residual Life Prediction for Small Samples of Mechanical Products Based on Feature Matching Preprocessor-LSTM

  Yongming Liu, Junyu Song, Zhuanzhe Zhao · 2022 · Applied Sciences · 10 citations

• The Application of an Abaqus Preprocessor Based on Python Language in a DAHC Negative Poisson Ratio Structure

  Xiaoting Sun, Guibo Yu, Xiujie Zhu · 2025 · Crystals · 5 citations

• Transposed Convolution as Alternative Preprocessor for Brain-Computer Interface Using Electroencephalogram

  Kenshi Machida, Isao Nambu, Yasuhiro Wada · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 4 citations

• Preprocessor Rate Control for Adaptive Multi-View Live Video Streaming Using a Single Encoder

  Markus Hofbauer, Christopher B. Kuhn, Goran Petrovic · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The C Programming LanguageBrian W. Kernighan, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie · 1978
• C How to ProgramPaul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 2007
• C by DissectionAl Kelley · 1986
• The C puzzle bookAlan R. Feuer · 1982
• Unix text processingDale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly · 1987
• Introduction to C ProgrammingReema Thareja · 2013
• Data structures using C++D. S. Malik · 2010
• 📕TRIFEM 1C. Kleinstreuer · 1979

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