Programming Languages

To do a software application defined in the last blog, you should use any programming language.

What are programming languages?

A programming language is a set of commands, and other syntax. The mother of all languages is C programming language. It was developed by Prof. Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell labs in 1972-1973. A new language appeared then in 1990 called Java by James Gosling. Each language from C to python created in the 1989 by Guido van Rossum has its distinct features.

Before getting started with C programming language, let's categorize the languages. There are two types of programming languages: low-level and high-level.

1. Low-level are also known as machine language like assembly language.
2. Higher-level language contains over 2000 computer languages.

Assembly language is designed to be easily translated by users into machine languages. Before getting started with C language, let's get a general idea about it. C programming language is a general-purpose programming language used for wide range of applications. C programming language is a highly rated language because of its efficiency. 

Why learning C?

Start learning java and C++ you will immediately move away from learning the fundamentals of programming; java and other languages are based on predefined functions that a user just call them and use them inside his program. In contrast, in C language you can just call some libraries, and you must define each function you need to use inside the program. 

C will also give direct access to the basic elements of the computers. It will also gives you access directly to the memory of the CPU by pointers, this isn't the case for other languages. 3D games? Even 3 dimensions games use C as their core. When you learn to program in C you'll gain an understanding of register, stack, heap and memory mapped IO mean.

C is not an object oriented programming language so you don't get distracted with some advanced topics like inheritance and polymorphism. The last thing about C language is that almost all high-level programming languages can interface with C programming easily. It's very important to note that C language is a case sensitive which means lowercase and uppercase letters are treated differently.

To end with, C language is general purpose language and can efficiently work on enterprise applications, games, graphics, and applications requiring calculations etc. Additionally, C implements algorithms and data structures swiftly, facilitating faster computations in programs.