PROGRAM OVERVIEW

<p style="text-align: justify; ">Description </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">&nbsp;A high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid-1970s. Although originally designed as a systems programming language, C has proved to be a powerful and flexible language that can be used for a variety of applications, from business programs to engineering. C is a particularly popular language for personal computer programmers because it is relatively small -- it requires less memory than other languages. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The first major program written in C was the UNIX operating system, and for many years C was considered to be inextricably linked with UNIX. Now, however, C is an important language independent of UNIX. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Although it is a high-level language, C is much closer to assembly language than are most other high-level languages. This closeness to the underlying machine language allows C programmers to write very efficient code. The low-level nature of C, however, can make the language difficult to use for some types of applications. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Latest Version of C </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The current latest version of C language is C11, which was introduced in 2011. It is supported by all the standard C language compilers. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Many new features have been introduced in this version and an overall attempt to improve the compatibility of the C language with C++ language has been made. We will learn about the C11 edition, once we are done with learning the C language, towards the end of this tutorial series. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">What will you learn? </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">C is the most basic programming language that is the base to almost all programming languages. It excels as the model of programming language. C is a standardized language that each programmer must learn. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">If you are a beginner </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Phase 1 </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">1. Start with tokens i.e. data types, variables, constants, operators. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">2. Study decision making and loops. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Phase 2 </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">1. Structures </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">2. Array </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">3. Strings </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">4. Pointers </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Phase 3 </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">1. Input-Output </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">2. File input-output </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">3. Command-line arguments </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">These basics help you not only in programming but also lay the foundation for data structures, algorithm design, UNIX, C++, and many more. </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">However, if you want to go for an advanced course </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">You must write a lot of programs based on operator precedence, conditional constructs, strings, pointers to arrays, bit formation, stack implementation, standard file I/O, function calls, etc </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Prerequisites </p><p style="text-align: justify; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; ">There are no prerequisites to learn C programming. In fact, C is considered as a language to start with for beginners. Just a bit of logical skills should be enough.</p>