INTRODUCTION TO C PROGRAMMING AND ITS FEATURES

1. Topic : Introduction to C Programming
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2. Introduction
•C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell
laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located in the U.S.A.
•C is a general-purpose, high-level language
•In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie produced the first publicly
available description of C, now known as the K&R standard.
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3. Conti…
Brian Kernighan
Dennis Ritchie
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4. Facts about C
•C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.
•C is a successor of B language which was introduced around the early
1970s.
•The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard
Institute (ANSI).
•The UNIX OS was totally written in C.
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5. Conti…
•Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.
•Most of the state-of-the-art software have been implemented using C.
•Today's most popular Linux OS and RDBMS MySQL have been written in C.
•It inherits many features of previous languages such as B and BCPL.
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6. Features and Applications of C Language
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7. Assessment 1
1. What is C Program?
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2. What are all the Features of C Program?
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8. References
Thank You
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TEXT BOOKS
[1] ReemaThareja, ―Programming in C, Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2016.
[2] R.G. Dromey, “How to solve it by Computer”, Pearson Education, 2008
[3] Kernighan, B.W and Ritchie,D.M, ―The C Programming language, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2006
REFERENCES
[1] H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel "C How to Program", Pearson Education., New Delhi, 2013, 7th edition.
[2] Byron S. Gottfried, Jitendar Kumar Chhabra “Programming with C”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company., New
Delhi,2018, fourth edition
[3] Herbert Schildt“C – The Complete Reference”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company., New Delhi, 2010, fourth edition.
[4] Yashavant P. Kanetkar "Let Us C", BPB Publications., 2017 , 16th edition