C Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Chapter 2. Introducing C

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• Operator:

  =

• Functions:

  main(), printf()

• Putting together a simple C program

• Creating integer-valued variables, assign them values, and display those values onscreen

• The newline character

• How to include comments in your programs, create programs containing more than one function, and find program errors

• Also, you discover what keywords are.

What does a C program look like? If you skim through this book, you'll see many examples. Quite likely, you'll find that C looks a little peculiar, sprinkled with symbols like {, cp->tort, and *ptr++. As you read through this book, however, you will find that the appearance of these and of other characteristic C symbols grows less strange, ...