Summary

Are you a C expert after one chapter? No way. Do you understand the fundamen tals of C? You might be surprised at how well you already understand the language. With your Visual Basic background, you understand the nature of many of C's controlling state ments. C's syntax and operators certainly take some time to master, but you will have lit tle trouble progressing from here.

The next chapter describes C's successor, C++. Many times, C++ code is identical to that of C. Instead of focusing on specific language statements, our introduction to C++ focuses more on the object-oriented programming aspects of C++.

  • C's operators enable the language to be efficient.

  • All C programs require at least one function named main().

  • Use #include to supply ...

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