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C Programming

This simple C program prints the message "This is a C program" to the screen. Every C program contains a main function which acts as the starting point. This program includes the stdio.h header which allows it to interact with the screen and filesystem. The main function contains a single printf statement between curly brackets to output the text followed by a newline character.

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C Programming

This simple C program prints the message "This is a C program" to the screen. Every C program contains a main function which acts as the starting point. This program includes the stdio.h header which allows it to interact with the screen and filesystem. The main function contains a single printf statement between curly brackets to output the text followed by a newline character.

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Moses Ndegerege
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A Very Simple Program

This program which will print out the message This is a C program

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("This is a C program\n");
}

Though the program is very simple, a few points are worthy of note.

Every C program contains a function called main. This is the start point of the program.

#include <stdio.h> allows the program to interact with the screen, keyboard and filesystem of
your computer. You will find it at the beginning of almost every C program.

main() declares the start of the function, while the two curly brackets show the start and finish of
the function. Curly brackets in C are used to group statements together as in a function, or in the
body of a loop. Such a grouping is known as a compound statement or a block.

printf("This is a C program\n");
prints the words on the screen. The text to be printed is enclosed in double quotes. The \n at the
end of the text tells the program to print a newline as part of the output.

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