Part I. The Basics
CONTENTS
Chapter 2 Variables and Basic Types
Chapter 3 Library Types
Chapter 4 Arrays and Pointers
Chapter 5 Expressions
Chapter 6 Statements
Chapter 7 Functions
Chapter 8 The IO Library
Programming languages have distinctive features that determine the kinds of applications for which they are well suited. They also share many fundamental attributes. Essentially all languages provide:
• Built-in data types such as integers, characters, and so forth
• Expressions and statements to manipulate values of these types
• Variables, which let us give names to the objects we use
• Control structures, such as if or while, that allow us to conditionally execute or repeat a set of actions
• Functions that let us abstract actions into ...
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