Brief Summary of C
Statements in C end with a semicolon (;). C treats all whitespace as equivalent, so line breaks and indents are for readability only (with a couple of exceptions that won't matter here). Blocks of code are surrounded with braces, { and }.
Comment lines begin with the characters // and everything after that marker on a line is ignored. (This is one of the rare cases in C where a line break has a different meaning from other whitespace, because only a line break will end a // comment.) Comments can also be delimited by a starting /* and an ending */. Within those comments, a line break is like any other whitespace, and has no effect on the comment.
C code is run through a pre-processor before it is compiled. The main way in which ...
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