C Introduction

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Updated on Nov 16, 2024

By Mari Selvan

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🤔 What is C Programming? #

C is a widely-used general-purpose programming language that is easy to learn and use.

It is a machine-independent structured programming language widely used to develop numerous applications, operating systems such as Windows, and other complicated applications such as Oracle database, Git, Python interpreter, etc.

C is supposed to be the programming language of gods. One can say, C is a base for the programming.

It's crucial to have a solid understanding of computer memory systems because it is crucial while working with the any programming language.

📖 C History

In early 1970s, Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.

Officially, Dennis Ritchie is known as the founder of the c language.

It was created to address the shortcomings of prior languages such as B, BCPL, and others.

Table of Content

Let's have a look at the programming languages that came before C.

Language	Year	Developed By
Algol	1960	International Group
BCPL	1967	Martin Richard
B	1970	Ken Thompson
C (Traditional)	1972	Dennis Ritchie
K & R C	1978	Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
ANSI C	1989	ANSI Committee
ANSI/ISO C	1990	ISO Committee
C99	1999	Standardization Committee

📄 Example

Let's print hello world using `C Programming`.

demo.c

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#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
 // printf() displays the string inside quotation
 printf("Hello, World!");
 return 0;
}

💻 OutPut

Output

Hello World

💡 Syntax

Syntax

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
 // Your C Program Goes Here.
}

📚 Why Learn C Programming Language?

C is one of the easy programming languages to start your career as a software developer.

It will be easier to learn other programming languages.

C helps you understand how memory is allocated to variables, allowing you to design more efficient and clean code.

It will help you understand how a Application works.

C is a procedural programming language. As a result, you cannot implement various useful concepts of object-oriented programming such as inheritance, polymorphism etc.

You can develop operating systems and do application-level programming with the C programming language.