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Getting into the C language

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Getting into the C language

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- [Presenter] The C programming language was developed in the 1970s, created by doctors Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, who were also involved with the creation of the Unix operating system. It's based on the B language. The B stood for Bell Labs, where both men worked. C is considered a mid-level language. It has features of both low-level, and high-level programming languages. It's a procedural language, not object oriented. And it was conceived of as a better way to write low-level machine code, which runs fast, but takes a long time to develop. C was also written to be transferrable between many platforms. Here's the standard Hello World Program, shown in Assembly Code and in C. Both programs do the same thing. Though C may be cryptic, you can see how it's an improvement upon the more primitive assembly. Like any language, C has vocabulary, syntax, and various rules. The vocabulary consists of key words, operators, data types, expressions and functions. The key words shown in…

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