CHAPTER
2
Basic Elements of the C Programming Language
2.1 Introduction to C
2.2 Constants and Variables
2.3 Arithmetic Operations and Expressions
2.4 Overview of Implementation
2.5 First Complete Programs
Chapter Summary
Exercises
Objectives
To learn the syntax and semantics of the C language. To learn the logical and physical structure of programs and the types of data that can be processed.
C is a versatile, flexible, and powerful programming language that was designed and developed in 1972. C incorporated many of the ideas of its ancestral languages BCPL and B. BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was developed in 1967 by Martin Richards. BCPL was a typeless (no data types) language using machine words and machine addresses. In ...
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