One may argue that if there is plethora of programming languages available, then what makes C language so special? There are two answers to this question. First, C language has been used by programmers for past 30-40 years to develop every kind of utility. This means the language is well understood, the issues with the … Read more
An entity that may vary during program execution is called a variable. Variable names are names given to locations in memory. These locations can contain integer, real or character constants. In any language, the types of variables that it can support depend on the types of constants that it can handle. This is because a particular type … Read more
Before we can begin to write serious programs in C, it would be interesting to find out what really is C, how it came into existence and how does it compare with other computer languages. In this chapter we would briefly outline these issues. We will also learn four important aspects of any language are … Read more