Introduction to The Basic of C Programing - Espoken - Learn By Money

About this course

C is a programming language and it was first released in 1972, making it one of the oldest still used today. The language is in everything you do since most modern operating systems are implemented with C code, as it is the main version of Python (called C-Python). C is very powerful; it has been used to develop operating systems, databases, applications, etc. Get started learning C fundamentals to become a better programmer in any field of computer science.

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C Programming

The C programming language is a general-purpose programming language, which relates closely to the way machines work. Understanding how computer memory works is an important aspect of the C programming language. Although C can be considered "hard to learn", C is in fact a very simple language, with very powerful capabilities.

C is a very common language, and it is the language of many applications such as Windows, Python interpreter, Git, and many many more.

C is a compiled language - which means that in order to run it, the compiler (for example, GCC or Visual Studio) must take the code that we wrote, process it, and then create an executable file. This file can then be executed and will do what we intended for the program to do.

History of C Programming

C is a popular high-level language and it was developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1972. C language was derived from an earlier language called B. The B was developed by Ken Thompson in 1969-70. C was originally designed to write system programming and UNIX operating system. The earlier version of C was known as K&R C (where K and R stand for Kernighan and Ritchie).

About C Programming

·       Procedural Language - Instructions in a C program are executed step by step.

·       Portable - You can move C programs from one platform to another, and run them without any or minimal changes.

·       Speed - C programming is faster than most programming languages like Java, Python, etc.

·       General Purpose - C programming can be used to develop operating systems, embedded systems, databases, and so on.