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 run-time libraries versus language syntax are introduced and described.

C Programming - Chapter 0 - Preface

This is a podcast dedicated to learning the "classic" version of the C Programming language from the 1978 book written by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.  This book places the reader right in the middle of the 1970's transition from a hardware-centered computer science to a focus on writing portable and efficient software.  C was used to develop operating systems like Unix, Minix, and Linux.  Programming languages like Python, Perl, Java, JavaScript and Ruby are all written in C.  Software like the early TCP/IP networking implementations that made the Internet possible were written in C.  And the first web browsers were written in C.  C made major advances in computer architecture possible because operating systems, compilers, and utilities could be re-compiled on a new architecture once they built a C compiler for the architecture.  So there is a very good chance that almost all the software that you use was either written in C or written in a programming language that was written in C.   So we study C less as a programming language to use on a daily basis and more as the foundation of modern software and computing.  Thee underlying book is copyright all rights reserved by AT&T but is being used in this work under "fair use" because of the book's historical and scholarly significance, its lack of availability, and lack of an accessible version of the book.

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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 on writing portable and efficient software. C was used to develop operating systems like Unix, Minix, and Linux.

Welcome to C Programming for Everybody - www.cc4e.com and Coursera

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.

C Programming - Chapter 1 - A Tutorial Introduction

Chapter Two of C Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. In this chapter we cover types, operators and expressions in C.  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.

C Programming - Chapter 2 - Types, Operators and Expressions

Chapter Three of C Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. In this chapter we cover control flow in C.  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.

C Programming - Chapter 0 - Preface

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