DAY 1
WEEK 1
Day 1 Getting Started with C
Welcome to the sixth edition of Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days!Today’s
lesson starts you toward becoming a proficient C programmer. Today you
will learn:- Why C is a great choice among programming languages
- The steps in the program development cycle
- How to write, compile, and run your first C program
- About error messages generated by the compiler and linker
A Brief History of the C Language ........................................................................
You might be wondering about the origin of the C language and where it got its
name. C was created by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in- The language wasn’t created for the fun of it, but for a specific purpose:
to design the UNIX operating system (which is used on many computers).
From the beginning, C was intended to be useful—to allow busy programmers
to get things done.
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