Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

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S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0224-9_1

1. Introduction

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

1.1 What Is C?

C is a programming language – a general-purpose, procedural, compiled programming language. C language was created by Dennis Ritchie in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The C program is a collection of C source code spread across one or more source and header files. Source files, by convention, have the .c extension, and header files have the .h extension. Source and header files are plain text files that contain some C code.

1.2 What Is C Used For?

C is often used for the so-called systems programming ...