Introduction To Programming

In this article, introduction to programming, we will learn about what is programming, and the need for programming language particularly c language in detail.

Features of the C Language that make it essential besides many popular programming languages. 
The role of C in the Software professional career is covered in this article’s introduction to programming.

What is programming?

Programming is the set of instructions given to the computer in a specific order to perform a specific task in a syntactical form known as the programming language.

For example, we can set a morning routine in Alexa to set an alarm, tell the weather report, and the daily news, and play music.

 MORNING ROUTINE

What is Programming Language?

We need a language to communicate with one another, likely to communicate with the computer, which is a machine, the machine language is developed.

The machine language includes 0’s and 1’s, which is difficult for humans to understand and maintain.

The machine language varies with different processor architectures and hence it is not portable, so assembly language is developed.

Assembly language is similar to the English language which makes it easy for humans to handle but for the machines to understand the assembler converts assembly code to machine code.

The assembly language is also not portable since instructions are stored in the registers and hence high-level language is developed.

The high-level languages C, C++, C#, Java, Python, etc. are more easily understandable for humans than machine language. The compiler is used to convert the high-level to machine language. Its portability enables programmers to perform tasks on all types of computers.

Why C Programming?

1. To get to the backbone of programming.
2. C is a middle-level language that helps to develop system programming like operating systems to application programming like desktop applications.
3. Improves analytical skills since the availability of fewer resources makes us implement our basic operations from scratch.
4. C language helps to understand very important concepts of program execution and essentials of programming known as memory mapping.
5. C is the primary language for embedded programming which controls the operation of hardware.

Realtime Applications of C Language:

Some of the popular applications developed using C language are

1. Unix-Kernel, Microsoft Windows utilities, operating system applications, and a majority of the Android operating system.
2. The language C++ is C with classes, C#, D, Java, Limbo, JavaScript, Perl, UNIX’s C Shell, PHP and Python, and Verilog.
3. The most popular photo editor namely Adobe photoshop.
4. Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird were open-source email client projects.
5. All Games like Tic-Tac-Toe, Dino game, Snake game, and Doom3 a first-person horror shooter game.

Role Of The C Language in Career Opportunities:

The following roles need the C programming language as a first basic requirement in addition to other programming languages.

1. To design and maintain the embedded system as an Embedded Engineer.
2. Programming on windows platform, understanding of operating systems and software engineering concepts as a Windows core Developer.
3. To develop fast and smooth performing gaming software as a Gaming Developer.
4. Maintaining computer systems and networks involves working with CPU cache, memory, and network adapter as a System Architect.