INTRODUCTION TO C PROGRAMMING



C programming is a procedural, imperative, general-purpose computer programming language created by Dennis M. Ritchie at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1972 to build the UNIX operating system. The most commonly used programming language is C.It remains at the top of the popularity rankings, alongside the Java programming language, which is still very common and commonly used by modern software programmers.C was created to solve a unique problem: it was created to construct an operating system (UNIX) that would become the blueprint for all future operating systems. It was developed to address a particular problem that the developers were experiencing; they needed the benefits of a high-level language as well as the benefits of a low-level language.

Importance of C Programming

  1. Easy to lean and C is a small language.
  2. For programming micro-controllers in embedded systems, C remains the most common programming language.
  3. C is often used to build powerful libraries for slower languages. Many Python libraries, for example, are written in C.
  4. Despite being a high-level language, C exposes certain basic low-level concepts such as memory addresses and dynamic memory management, which are hidden by many other languages.
  5. C has been used to build compilers and interpreters for a broad range of programming languages.
  6. Since C is the only (semi-)portable language that allows you to control all of the low-level information.
  7. There are only 32 keywords; a range of standard functions are available for program creation.
  8. C has high-level structures and is more user-friendly because its syntax is similar to that of English.

Application of C Programming

  1. Operating Systems
  2. New Programming Platforms
  3. Compiler Design
  4. MySQL
  5. GUI
  6. Embedded Systems