The C# programming language is a powerful, relatively new descendant of the earlier C, C++, and Java languages. Programming with it is a lot of fun, as you’re about to find out in this book. Microsoft created C# as a major part of its .NET initiative. For what are probably political reasons, Microsoft turned the specifications for the C# language over to the ECMA (pronounced ek-ma) international standards committee in the summer of 2000, long before .NET was a reality. In theory, any company can come up with its own version of C# written to run on any operating system, on any machine larger than a calculator.

Welcome to C For Dummies, 2nd Edition — your last, desperate, and final attempt to understand the C programming language. Although I can’t promise that you’ll become a C guru after wading through this text, I can guarantee that you will
Know how to recognize a C program and, when one is grouped with an IRS Form 1040, the morning stock report, baseball statistics, and anything written in Braille, you’ll be able to pick out which one is the C program.
Be able to write C programs that no other publisher would let an author print in its C books.
Appreciate the following code, but be unable to use it at cocktail parties to impress your friends: while(dead_horse) beat();
Find out how to speak in C Talk, which is the ability to look at character groupings, such as printf, putchar, and clock, and pronounce them as “print-f,” “put-kar,” and “see-lock.”
Have fun.

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