1.6. SummaryThis chapter has introduced many of the basics of the language although informally. Functions, in particular, form the basic building block for C. Chapter 4 provides a full description of these fundamental objects, but you should by now understand enough about them to follow their informal use in the intervening material. Although the idea of library functions has been introduced, it has not been possible to illustrate the extent of their importance to the C application programmer. The Standard Library, described in Chapter 9, is extremely important, both in the way that it helps to improve the portability of programs intended for general use and also in the aid to productivity that these useful functions can provide. The use of variables, expressions and arithmetic are soon to be described in great detail. As this chapter has shown, at a simple level, C differs little from most other modern programming languages. Only the use of structured data types still remains to be introduced, although arrays have had a very brief airing. |
The C BookThis book is published as a matter of historical interest. Please read the copyright and disclaimer information. GBdirect Ltd provides up-to-date training and consultancy in C, Embedded C, C++ and a wide range of other subjects based on open standards if you happen to be interested. |
|
West Yorkshire Office
GBdirect Ltd
Training: 0800 651 0338 Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday South East Regional Office
GBdirect Ltd
Training: 0800 651 0338 Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday Please note: |
