2. Writing Your First C Program
In This Chapter
• Typing your first program
• Using the main() function
• Identifying kinds of data
You get to see your first C program in this chapter! Please don’t try to understand every character of the C programs discussed here. Relax and just get familiar with the look and feel of C. After a while, you will begin to recognize elements common to all C programs.
A Down-and-Dirty Chunk of Code
This section shows you a short but complete C program and discusses another program that appears in Appendix B, “The Draw Poker Program.” Both programs contain common and different elements. The first program is extremely simple:
/* Prints a message on the screen */#include <stdio.h>
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