Computer Fundamentals and Programming in C (RMK)

5.2 Basics of C Programming

5.1 Introduction

In the last chapter, you have learnt how to form and evaluate expressions. In C language,

the expressions do not have any independent existence. To make them exist, they must be

converted into statements. A statement is the smallest logical entity that can independently

exist in a C program. In this chapter, I will tell you how to convert expressions into statements.

I will also describe how statements are executed, how to make decisions with the help of

branching statements and how to make a set of statements execute a number of times by

using iteration statements. Finally, we will look at how various ...