1. turn off distractions, 2. plug into computer ibm model m keyboard 3. write some C and feel like a real programmer again.

C is really awesome! The creators of C (Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie) deserve so much respect, they literally built the foundation of modern programming. Thanks Chris Hawkes!

I've used C for going on 40 years now... I still like how it works. One advantage is that it's small. I don't think there are even 100 keywords to the whole thing. I like that simplicity. The standard libraries are well tested and robust. C has proved to be a most useful tool.

"Why using default powerpoint templates is also awesome."

Perl is based on C too. Apart from their source code, C is to almost all modern languages what Latin is to European languages.

I used to fly hang gliders. Now I program in C and use lots and lots of pointers. Dangerous fun and nobody gets hurt.

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When you get into C, you get into the Hell of debugging... I like C anyway...

I C that you really like this language.

"I'm not a deep C guy." #punny

The reason why I like C the best is simple. What you "C" is what you get!

I have to say, although C can be a pain to deal with and it is certainly not my first choice to use for anything, I am really glad that it was my first language. You learn all about building your own data structures from scratch, manually managing memory, etc. and then you feel like a master when you go into languages like ruby and python and realize that you don't need to do any of that stuff :)

I honestly think that pulling up embedded systems / microcontrollers, kernel development and the age of the language as the main strong points of C does the language a disservice, because these are the things perhaps most commonly associated with C and the usual reasons why C is shunted to the side and disregarded when it comes to discussing or choosing programming languages. The need to have "an intimate knowledge of how a computer is actually operating" is also not a reason for C's awesomeness, and neitehr is the need to manage the program's memory. Saying that C is great because other languages or their implementations are built on C also, in my opinion, serves little purpose - if we, as humanity, have taken tool X and our knowledge of it, and with it we've built tools Y and Z that make our jobs easier and help us achieve what we want with less effort, why would we go back to using tool X for those same jobs? I think you've missed a good deal of why C is actually awesome to the programmer. It's well-designed - simple, consistent and with a high degree of semantic coherence. It does a good job of telling the programmer what the code does, without making it overly complicated. It doesn't make the programmer work hard for that information, at least definitely not as hard as with some other languages (_cough_ c++ _cough_ sorry, I have a cold); it doesn't obscure its low-level workings, but it also doesn't prematurely force implementation details on the programmer. It's flexible - you can do both operating system kernel implementation, and high-level application programming, all in the same language, without much effort at all. It's so old and still used today for all sorts of tasks because of how well it has stood the test of time and how strong its design has turned out to be. It's easy to pick up, learn, and do stuff with, even without the "intimate knowledge" about CPUs and memory, because nearly every high school kid is smart enough to write a C program that asks for 2 integers, adds them together, and spits out the result, during their very first class about the language. And probably some other neat things about C that I've forgotten about. Cool video idea, but I think a lot of people in the industry really miss out on the true elegance of C. The bland powerpoint slides with a mouse pointer racing across them didn't help the video, either :P

If you're into embedded systems design C is probably the language you should start with because most microcontrollers use it, for example your Arduino uses what's essentially C programming.

Back in the 80s, even user applications were written in C. You can use C for low level development to high level development.

C is easier to learn and faster to compile compared to C++. You have forgotten to mention one of the most important benefits of C that is a proper stable ABI.

fun fact about the mars curiosity rover: there are microcontrollers on it that were programmed in BASIC

C has the perfect level of abstraction from the hardware. It's high-enough to be 100% portable, and human-readable, but it's low-enough to be efficient for performance- and memory use sensitive applications. And, it's much easier to understand other people's code than in something like C++, where you can even overwrite operators (what I call an encryption / obfuscation scheme, rather than a helpful language feature). With C99 and later, you can also create an excellent object-oriented runtime, way better than C++.

I have worked in c, java and a host of other languages. but I still prefer c. you can do just about anything in c, and you can do it efficiently and clean. it's very efficient once you know it.

I started doing a little bit of Python. Then, after going to college (still studying) and learning how to create algorithms in pseudocode and to program in C, has made me a much better overall programmer. I still have a lot to learn, but I can't wait to keep going and keep getting better.

I learned C as my first programming language and it's so efficient that I have no idea why anyone would even bother with OOP. And with the right text editor like Vim you can type C reeeeaally fast.

Our development team came from c backgrounds and we were tasked to develop this simulation program in Java. It had to use the CPU as efficiently as possible and also run for weeks under high stress conditions. Long story short, we had multiple years of growing pains learning you DID have to actively worry about Java's memory management. We would constantly fight the introduction of memory leaks. Some small seemingly innocuous fix in one part of the code would cause a slow memory leak only noticeable after running for several days. This ended up with everyone having to learn memory profiling tools. Often, the root cause was difficult to locate and you could easily spend multiple days attempting to figure it out.

What did Ms. Java say to Mr. C? .... "Stop objectifying me!"

Cool reflections, thank you for the video.

A great C Programming book is C Programming Language 2nd ed. By Kernighan, W. B. & Ritche, M. D. 256 Pages The C Answer Book 2nd ed. By Tondo, L. C. & Gimpel, E. S. This the answer guide for the above 201 Pages. Also your correct you need to know something about computers. A good book for that is The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software & Networking By Englander, I. Great video.

writing code in assambly will tech you how computer really work

for Embedded systems C remains the language of choice

Those facts about C, like how many employees require knowledge of C, inspired me with awe!

when i was studying computer engineering in 2003/2004 first grade they taught us C and C++, those days i loved C programming language and the logic of the language. After that year one of the teachers pushed us to learn C# and i dont know why but i couldnt easily adapt it and like it as much as i liked C/C++. later on in the masters degree we focused on Java and i became a Java developer. Now after all those years I'm teaching myself C programming language and i confess it's really amazing.

No reason you can't program in c-style, and just reach for c++ features when they're convenient.

Wow, you'd make a great salesman with these presentations! Enthusiastic, exciting and compelling.

C also just says, “Screw type safety, I want to do this myself!” giving you the freedom to do things far more efficiently, but at the risk of shooting yourself in the foot if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I'm at a intermediate level coding in C and mostly doing it as a hobby and it's awesome. One of teachers on YT I really appreciate is Kris Jordan.

"segmentation fault"

I totally agree with you as an ex C developer of a great many years standing. After a 10 year+ "break" from coding/development I have recently come back to it after my wifes death to take advantage of the Arduino revolution. Sadly, I cannot find a "RAW COMPILER" any more. The last one I used commercially was VC 4 or 5, and then it all moved on to C++, and now of course C#, but both of these rely as you righty pointed out on endless different libraries and frameworks, all of which you need to be pretty familair with if you are to be able to code in these environments. I think the introduction of the MS Intellisense is the best indicaton of this need, qas without it I suspect that few programmers would ever really get anything done without understanding all of these arcane library canyons.

All you have to do was follow the damn train, Cj

A shout out to assembly language. .. the most fun and the most interesting language.

At 6:39, what causes those spikes in job demand? Is it simply big layoffs in companies or is it just by chance that hundreds (if not thousands) of C jobs become in demand at one time?

shouting back. When 32-bit first became readily accessible (in the form of the 386-DX), and GUIs were in their infancy, C programmers wrote code that made such (limited) devices useful. Speed was paramount. Disk-thrash was death. Keep it lean. I rode that wave (and I miss it pretty badly.)

which is better c++ or c. And could you tell me why? i want to begin learning one of these and i want to get a better understanding of computers.

Just an innocent Java user passing by, please don't kill me xD

I agree with the majority of this presentation regarding C. I don't think the primary reason for choosing C for the Curiosity Rover is for reducing overhead. NASA has many of their own higher level languages for their own use. C is chosen because none of the other languages can easily do I/O with computer chips, robotic devices, and device drivers. There are exceptions since you do have chips such as Arduino will allow higher level support. I suspect there are hundreds of device vendors that NASA contracts with that requires programmatic communication across low-level ports which cannot be done with other higher level languages. I've personally worked with Satellite contract jobs that were similar to what I described. Regardless, this was a good and informative presentation. One last thing too add, another good reason to learn C is that all of the higher level languages you mentioned are based on C/C++.

I miss the dependency bit. Java and .net are dependent on external libs that gets updated which can be cumbersome and risky.

Chris I have a question, I am very confused with C? Because the C version which is being taught for my cs50 intro course the syntax which is written during the class course wont be accepted by the Apple x-code IDE, it gets rejected. I noticed when I wrote "get_int" on the variable line it is flagged red and is rejected by the compiler. I am not sure but I think the version the x-code uses is c99? I don't know anything about the different versions of C I am now hearing about this. Chris, which is the standard version of C everyone is using which is best recommended because this is so complicated to learn now. I don't know the version of C the Harvard CS50 intro course is using I am trying to find out. But how can I pick the right version of C? Any help would be most appreciated, thank you.

Hey. You forgot to mention DOOM

I think learning c is very important because all libraries that other languages provide it would make it easier to use API well.

Help! My first single quote(apostrophe) appears backward when I run my program! This is holding up my progress. Anyone???

thanks.. ur vid has answered a lot of my Qs

I needed as an old school C programmer coming back to programming

I love C. It's the first language that I am familiar with.

C is a beautiful language, dont forget GTK framework, and the KDE environments built based on C. :) and of course so much more....

TinyC ompiler is reasonable for begineers. I have a general math ebook with most of the practical math functions found on scientific calculators written in the basic ansi C language.

Because C can be used as a server page or simple called CSP (C/C++ Server Pages)

What's the advantages of a machine running C program to the one that uses a FPGA chip?

Languages are converted to LLVM IR anyway. IR is optimized and the result is dumped to binary. Does it really make that big difference what Lang was used?

I recently just started learning C language. It is really awesome. Thanks for the video 🤗

hello man can you help me ? i know gow to PRINT ancii chars on screen.. what i need to know its how to execute those commands .. (example: i want to extract ancii chars + concaternate then + execute then) char a = 21; char b = 32; char command = putchar(a);putchar(b); int system(char command); system(command);

What did Mr. C say to the tourist asking for directions? Let me give you some pointers

C is the Mother of all programming Languages. All hail C!

I do all things in C. Once you learn how to wield your '.dll' and '.so' files you don't even need scripting languages for any reason, you can make small configuration/high level adjustments in one compilation to the dynamic/shared library and just compile that from C too. It's not sexy, but eventually I got bored with sexy and realized pure and simple is the only way to go... I do use the '.cpp' extension and compile as C++ though, so that I can use C++ style struct declarations and very occasional operator overloading. The biggest shortcoming of C is lack of good introspection. Can't easily turn an enum value into a string, or list the members of a struct by index, etc, but once you're willing to write your own metaprogram to generate a few .h files, that can pretty much be solved as well.

is it marketable to get a job to learn system programming and with the c language?

I think memory management is easier to wrap your head around than something like the DOM

When personal computers ran off of floppy disks, program efficiency was much more important. I liked C programming because it was easy to see how each statement would be translated into machine language. I could write a C program, compile it, pick at the assembly code, and end up with a small and fast program. I actually had a C program produce a standalone distributable binary that was 453 bytes long (of course it used stdio from a console library, and a system library). A program that was only 453 bytes to download was nice when our modems maxed out at 1200 baud.

Wich books are the best to learn the basics of C programming nowadays in 2020?

I do som bat-file scripts, are there any language that works without any compiler and that IT-department cant block.

does it make it easier to learn other program when u can use C?

3:34 For more than 30 years? C was developed at Bell Laboratories in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie. He also worked with Ken Thompson to develop UNIX. This video was released in 2016, and that was 44 years after it was created. It's already 46 years old.

I started working on a video game with my friends, and sometimes wish that I used C, but I used C++ because there was supposed to be other people helping me with the programming and they only knew C++, so I used C++, but it turned out they didn’t understand the code well enough and it was too complicated, so I’m doing it alone. Although I am using it as half C and half C++ (like using classes and cout, but using a lot of struct based stuff and little C++ only stuff as well).

Am I the only one who thinks that the Dispose-pattern used by most managed languages is *literally* manual resource management?

i feel like a true programmer when using c and assembley

mother of all languages

1:25!!! More reason for me to stay pumped and glad to have taken the first steps in learning C as my first language! That's freaking awesome.

I"ve been writing C since before there were function prototypes in the language (arghhhh - that was an infinite cause of mystery crashes when a sequence of parameters doesn't match what a function expected!!!). I got to the point (eventually) where I knew how to not shoot off my toes and life was fairly good. But there are still lots of opportunities for run-time disaster if one is not careful. strcpy() to a too-small buffer. Fixed size arrays to hold file names. And the ever popular return a pointer to an automatic variable. I started C++ programming more about 10 years ago, but I've been told I write C++ like a C programmer. Oh well... Objects can be nice but it's possible to write horrible, ununderstandible code in pretty much any language. My preference for obfuscation of code is Forth. I found I could write word in forth and 15 minute later I couldn't figure out how it worked. Now most of my coding is for fun doing embedded stuff for Arduinos. And although they don't embrace it, the Arduino language is C++ - but the build process makes doing classes in separate files a pain. Still it's much more fun than freakin' Visual C++. FWIW

Could you allow community contributions so your videos can be captioned?

What is awesome about C, is the fact that your "framework" is not a runtime, perhaps you are powered by means of an Library, in general, most of the time, your framework is the very same machine you are programming to. IMHO.

It's a small language that allows you to do low level and high level stuff.....what more do you need?

Good video mate, appreciated

If you want to program anything low level in C you ALWAYS need to read a hardware's (MCPUs, sensors, interfaces...) user manuals (UM) first. This is how you learn hardware and it is a lot of fun if you like to read. I learned basic C while cross compiling ARM programs on Linux. To me it was easy to (a) learn ARM by reading MCPU's UM, to (b) interact with sensors integrated alongside MCPU on the same MCU, by reading MCU's UM or to (c) program external sensors only connected to the same embedded system that MCU is on by studying UM for that sensors... So I was able to learn on how to do basic stuff with embedded boards, but... On the other hand it was very hard to (a) find any study material on how to actually show anything on LCD and to create a graphical library, or to (b) write C drivers for Linux in order for Linux to be able to recognize the embedded system or in other words firmware that is ran on that same embedded system. This is where you see flaws of Linux, and you feel how Linux knowledge is intentionally hidden in order to sell it through seminars, certification...

C is to modern programming languages what Latin is to almost all European languages today. It's the basis, and everything shows its influence, including Perl.

yes its best for devloping operating system and big stuff which is more than app devlopement

C, unlike ISO C++ plus STL, has a very thin compile-time and run-time. I'm assuming that's partly why NASA picked C. After all if it's an embedded thing that you're debugging you need to fully understand what the relevant parts of the hardware and your code are doing and how they're interacting and that gets harder the more layers, abstractions and complexity you have in between. Was it C.A.R. Hoare who in one of his old papers posed the rhetorical question of what point there is in using a tool that is more complicated than the problem you're trying to solve. The language isn't supposed to be there to add accidental complexity to the situation.

5:51 What about assembly? It's better if you want to know how the computer really works.

Thank you, very helpful.

I don't know why i like C but i absolutely love it. Maybe the pointer stuff or maybe the memory managing powers.

I wrote my first script over 40 lines in C yesterday. I'm learning it as a hobby but knowing the syntax of C makes Python incredibly easy to navigate.

My story: First, I learned Java, then z80 assembly (wrote a little minesweeper game for the TI-83+), now C++, let's see if/when I come to C.

want to learn C, can anyone tell me what i need to download into my laptop (HP Notebook 2000, Windows 10) to write scripts and run them?

which vs code them is that in the thumbnail?

C# and radiation don't mix?

The idea of a Mars rover/probe running on python made me chuckle

I use C whenever I can

I would have thought the mars rovers etc would be coded using assembly. I am not 100% sure though.

I don’t know how to code in C yet, but hearing all these testimony makes me want to start programming class immediately. Can someone please recommend a good book?

Program in C, they said. It will be fun, they said. -A seasoned programmer that has audited so many spaghetti code in C.

Is objective-C (Apple) the same as C?

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Radiation and big libraries are not related. 64MB is as large as 512MB these days, surface area is relationele to Radiation risk. C in de mars rover makes sense because you need to read pulses and control IO and thus there's no need to have a VM for java on top of your CPU where you have to write wrappers (in C or asm ) to get to it. This is why a lot of embedded systems do not need higher abstraction because you're doing very direct abstract work.

I love it too. "Till this day"!!!!

Some really superficial reasoning here. Grade: C.

>C isn't going anywhere Prepare yourself... Jai is coming