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Chapter One of C Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie gives a broad overview of the scope of the C language while leaving out most of the detailed descriptions. The chapter covers variables, control flow, looks, functions, arrays and Input/Output. For more detail see https://www.cc4e.com. This material is used under "fair use" so we can interpret this historical and scholarly work and place it in the context of the history of computing.
This www.cc4e.com web site is dedicated to learning the "classic" version of the C Programming language from the 1978 book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. This K&R book places the reader in the middle of the 1970's transition from a hardware-centered computer science to a focus...
Published 07/10/22
The preface to C Programming by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie places the C programming language in the context of the other popular programming languages of the 1960's and 1970's FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, Algol, and PL/I . Many concepts like separation of concerns and the use of provided...
Published 07/09/22