Key Concepts
The information we need to represent a programming problem often is more involved than a single number or a list of numbers. A program may deal with an entity or collection of entities having several properties. For example, you might represent a client by his or her name, address, phone number, and other information. Or you might describe a movie DVD by its title, distributor, playing time, cost, and so on. A C structure lets you collect all this information in a single unit. This is very helpful in organizing a program. Rather than storing information in a scattered collection of variables, you can store all the related information in one place.
When you design a structure, it's often useful to develop a package of functions to ...
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