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Introduction to C
Create Variables Format Specifiers Change Values Multiple Variables Variable Names Real-Life Examples Code Challenge C Data Types
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Paradigm Multi-paradigm: imperative (procedural), structured
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Developer ANSI X3J11 (ANSI C); ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Joint Technical Committee 1) / SC 22 (Subcommittee 22) / WG 14 (Working Group 14) (ISO C)
Paradigm Multi-paradigm: imperative (procedural), structured
Designed by Dennis Ritchie
Developer ANSI X3J11 (ANSI C); ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Joint Technical Committee 1) / SC 22 (Subcommittee 22) / WG 14 (Working Group 14) (ISO C)
Wikipedia
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C (programming language) - Wikipedia
January 23, 2026 - C is an imperative procedural language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system. It was designed to be compiled to provide low-level access to memory and language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, all with minimal ...
Reddit
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r/C_Programming
March 27, 2008 - r/C_Programming: The subreddit for the C programming language
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The C Programming Language: Some Initial Thoughts - Discussion - It's FOSS Community
April 5, 2024 - Hey everyone! Recently, I decided to learn to use the C programming language. I had a few reasons for doing so: A lot of very good programmers say that learning C will help you be a better programmer While it is not used as much as it once was, it is still a very significant language, especially used in things that touch hardware like drivers and kernels.
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The Development of the C Language
C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. Another spate of changes peaked between 1977 and 1979, when portability of the Unix system was being demonstrated.
GeeksforGeeks
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C Programming Tutorial - GeeksforGeeks
C is a general-purpose mid-level programming language developed by Dennis M. Ritchie at Bell Laboratories in 1972.
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Cppreference
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C language - cppreference.com
This is a reference of the core C language constructs.
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C language
C is a general-purpose high-level programming language suitable for low-level programming, in other words: a system programming language.
Reddit
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r/C_Programming on Reddit: Why to learn C?
June 25, 2024 -
Why did you learn C? I'm interested in programming because I enjoy building things (websites, apps, desktop apps, games, etc), what sort of things can I do with C? I've heard it's an extremely fast language. What are things you've made with the language? Do you enjoy using it?
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i'm here solely to introduce you to the dark arts. learn C to take apart programs. reverse engineer them. make them do your bidding as you become the dark lord over their reanimated corpses.
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...because C is arcane, black magicks. Also because C/C++ was the primary programming language for CS when I was in undergrad and I over the years really got tired of being forced into paradigms like OOP and functional programming. C also I feel provides insight into what is going on under the hood better than any other programming language. It is literally portable assembly. C is pure. C is the truth. C is THE WAY.
HowStuffWorks
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The Basics of C Programming | HowStuffWorks
March 8, 2023 - The C programming language is a popular and widely used programming language for creating computer programs.
Learn C
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Learn C - Free Interactive C Tutorial
Whether you are an experienced programmer or not, this website is intended for everyone who wishes to learn the C programming language.
Reddit
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r/learnprogramming on Reddit: What about C is so special?
January 4, 2023 -
I’ve seen a lot of comments around the internet people saying things “C teaches you how computers work” and “implement DSA in C and it makes a huge difference” and etc. Is C like the Latin of the programming languages? What is so special about C?
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c is one of the first modern languages, and it can directly access a computer's hardware. it is also VERY fast, basically the fastest popular language out there linux is written in C for example also, many of the other popular languages are similar in syntax to C, e.g. Java, C#, C++, JavaScript are all C-ish in syntax python is a different animal, with very different syntax, but if you knew C, you could easily pick up many other languages in a weekend -- not to be an expert mind you, but you would not be lost. a loop in C is basically the same as a loop in C++, C#, Java, etc.
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C being the Latin of programming languages is a fair analogy. Most modern languages today were developed in C initially prior to being self-bootstrapping. Many still make calls to C libraries to extend the functionality of the language without having to rewrite lower-level libraries. (I'm not sure if any language out there being compiled for a Linux machine doesn't at least make calls to libc in its compilation process) When we talk about C, we are generally talking about C/C++. Most modern C development is a combination of C and C++, as you’ll find most C developers taking portions of the improvements C++ has made over the years and incorporating them into their C development lifecycle. The difference between C/C++ and other languages is that they allow you to write unsafe code that can directly manipulate and speak with the software-to-hardware interfaces that hardware manufacturers implement, and do it in a way that removes the “training wheels” that most other modern languages enforce on their users - such as memory allocation and garbage collection. Even in very modern, large applications - you’ll see small, exceptional cases of needs to performance tune some tiny small piece of the overall application/some service/etc. that simply requires some low-level pointer arithmetic trick or manual memory management to performance tune to its best potential. C itself is a very small language, but with that small footprint comes great responsibility - in that it assumes you know what you’re doing and assumes that if you need something you know how to develop it and write it on your own. Whether C is the best language for the majority to start with is often debated, I don’t necessarily agree that it is for the majority of people - but I do think it’s a language that any serious developer should eventually learn, even if it’s solely using it to do a proper DSA curriculum and study with it.
Reddit
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r/C_Programming on Reddit: What can you actually do in C?
January 5, 2023 -
I'm a begginer in C the only thing I wrote is hello world with printf, so I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but what can you actually do/make in C? I tried finding it on Google but the only thing I found was operating systems which I doubt I will be making the new windows anytime soon. :p So I would appreciate if someone could give me some pin points on this.
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Things that you can actually do in C : - Embedded and real time programming - GUI programming (GTK, Nuklear, NAppGui, RayGui) - Berkeley Sockets programming - IOT Network programming (ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, libcurl, Paho MQTT client, nanomsg ) - Talking to databases (Postgresql, sql, sqllite, mariadb, mongodb and more) - WebFrameworks / Web servers (onion, libmicrohttpd, Kore, facil) - Graphics (OpenGL, SDL, RayLib, CSFML) - Command line tools - Command line tools with a graphical interface (ncurses. not curses) - Scientific / Numerical computing / Plotting (GSL, GnuPlot, FFTW, apophenia, libBlas, ATLAS and more) - Machine learning ( FANN, DarkNET). - Crypto ( openSSL, libsodium) - File processing ( jsonC, Libcsv) -Linux / BSD Kernel space programming (drivers e.t.c.) And much much more (compression,encoding, video playback, image processing ....). To further understand the scope of exactly what you can do with C, Just have a look at the following 5 Awesome C lists on the web that include C libraries, applications, editors, build systems e.t.c.: Awesome C - inputsh Awesome C - project awesome Awesome C - oz123 Awesome C - mazurov Awesome C - uhub
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Everything. With C you can do everything (except winforms)
Reddit
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r/learnpython on Reddit: Cannot figure out what the "c" stands for
September 20, 2024 -
str_var = "A string" count = 0 for c in str_var: count += 1 print(count)
can anyone explain what the "c" stands for in this? Does it stand for character? (Code came from a learning software I am using)
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Also want to point out that this could have been any variable name. There's nothing special about "c." You could have also written for letter in str_var You don't actually use that variable, though. To me, it's not great code because it's basically a throwaway variable that never appears in the rest of the code.
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It's the variable containing each character in str_var while iterating over it. for c in str_var means for each character c in variable str_var do something. Instead of count += 1 you could do print(c) and it would print the current character.
HowStuffWorks
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What is C? - The Basics of C Programming | HowStuffWorks
March 8, 2023 - C is what is called a compiled language. This means that once you write your C program, you must run it through a C compiler to turn your program into an executable that the computer can run (execute).
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Amazon
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Amazon.com: C Programming Language, 2nd Edition: 9780131103627: Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie: Books
Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. The 2/E has been completely rewritten with additional examples and problem sets to clarify the implementation of difficult language constructs.
Reddit
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r/cprogramming on Reddit: Why just no use c ?
January 22, 2025 -
Since I’ve started exploring C, I’ve realized that many programming languages rely on libraries built using C “bindings.” I know C is fast and simple, so why don’t people just stick to using and improving C instead of creating new languages every couple of years?
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C has some serious shortcomings that make it impractical or uncomfortable to use for many tasks. I wouldn't want to do, for example, web development in C. As for improving C, that happens but extremely slowly. C is rather unique in that it is a foundational language for just about every computer on the planet from the microcontroller in your electric toothbrush to the largest supercomputers. There are tens or hundreds of compilers in daily use. Every change to the language upsets someone and takes years to get through the standardization process. This is not necessarily a bad thing, C should evolve very conservatively.
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Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. --Greenspun's tenth rule C is used a great deal, and has been for a long time. But to get it up to the level of convenience and rapid-prototyping capability of (say) Python, one would pretty much have to implement something like Python! (CPython, the reference implementation, is, in fact, written in C!) Python (mostly) doesn't segfault. It (mostly) doesn't leak memory. You can load new functions into the program while it's running. It's easy to accidentally segfault or leak memory or generally mess up a pointer and read or write memory where you didn't want to. That mostly doesn't happen in Python. Many things that have to be design patterns in C are built into the language. It has dynamic typing, iterators, hash tables, automatic array resizing, a garbage collecter, a large standard library. The stack trace almost always points you to exactly your problem, but in C, you might accidentally overwrite the information you needed to debug it! Compared to Python, C feels tedious. Of course, there are costs to all of that. Python seem slow and bloated in comparison. In practice, CPython projects get most of the best of both worlds, because the fast library code gets written in C, and the slow Python code just glues those libraries together. Still bloated though.
Reddit
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r/explainlikeimfive on Reddit: ELI5:What is the difference between C, C+, C++ and C#?
February 14, 2012 - C# is a C like language made by MS to try and suit their own needs and make writing applications for Windows and other MS products more easy.