C Programming Part 1: Lessons, topics and basic Activities for Students

What is Programming Language? 

C is a high level programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop the UNIX operating system. 

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Prerequisites
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You should have a basic understanding of Computer Programming terminologies. A basic understanding of any of the programming languages will help you in understanding the C programming concepts and move fast on the learning track.

The minimum software requirements to program in C is a text editor like Notepad++ or 

IDE – Integrated Development Environment

An IDE is a suite of programs that developers need, combined into one convenient package, usually with a graphical user interface. 

These programs include a text editor, linker, project management and sometimes bundled with a compiler. They also typically include a debugger, a tool that will preserve your C source code after compilation and enable you to do such things as step through it manually, or alter data as an aid to finding and correcting programming errors.

Before you can start programming in C, you will need a C compiler. A compiler is a program that converts C code into executable machine code.

 Suggestion: Use Code Blocks as your IDE

You can download this IDE on their website: http://www.codeblocks.org/

Follow the steps: 

Select Codeblocks-17.12.mingw-setup.exe. This file includes  file includes additionally the GCC/G++ compiler and GDB debugger from TDM-GCC (version 5.1.0, 32 bit, SJLJ)