The First C Program

To start with the first program lets write what we actually want to instruct the Computer Processor to do:
- I want the Computer Processor to display character that I type
- I want it to be displayed on the Computer Monitor Screen
- I will type the character on my keyboard and I want the Computer Processor to read what I typed.

In order to do all of this certainly we need a complete Computer Set System and obviously by reading this tutorial you already got everything.

Lets write the program on the C Compiler.
Open the C Compiler and open new file to write C program. Write the program and save it as First.c.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("Processor please display this character!\n");
    return 0;
}

Compile the C program as shown below:

Run the program and the output is shown below:

When executed, this program instructs the computer to print out the line - Processor please display this character! -- then the program quits. To make the program display the output until we type any character just add C code getchar() inside the program.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("Processor please display this character!\n");
    getchar();  //output will wait until user type any
                //cahr on the keyboard
    return 0;
}


                             
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