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Getting into the C language

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Getting into the C language

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- [Instructor] The C programming language was developed in the 1970s, created by Doctors Kernighan and Ritchie, who were involved with the creation of the Unix operating system. It's based on the B language where the B stood for Bell Labs. And that's where both of these men worked. C is considered a mid-level language. It has features of both low level and high-level programming languages. It's procedural, 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. Here is the standard Hello World program shown in assembly code and C. Both programs do the same thing. The C program may be cryptic but you can see how it's an improvement upon the more primitive assembly code. Like any language, C has its vocabulary, syntax, and various rules. The vocabulary consists of keywords, operators, data types, expressions, and functions. The…

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