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1. C Language developed by “Dennis Ritche” in 1972 at AT&T Bell Lab.

2. C Program file extension is .C

3. By default C program name is NONAME00.C

4. C is a Case Sensitive Language

5. C Program Compilation “Alt + F9”

6. To Run C Program “Ctrl+F9”

7. # is a preprocessor Directive

8. File Extension of header file is .h

9. Stdio.h (standard input output header file)

10. Conio.h (console input output header file)

11. Main() function  execution of c prog always start with main()

12. Every c program having only 1 main function

13. printf()  predefined function for OUTPUT

14. scanf()  predefined function for INPUT

15. semicolon ; end of statement

16. clrscr() clear screen function

17. getch() control transfer to output window

18. Format specifier for

a. Interger %d %i
b. Char %c

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c. Float %f
d. Double %ld
e. String %s

19. & indicate address of variable

20. /* */ Multiline comment in c language
// single line comment in c language

21. 32 keywords present In c language

22. Computer memory organized in bytes (byte is a unit of information storage)

23. 1 byte = 8 bits ( A bit stores just a 0 or 1)

a) 1 Kilobyte (KB) = 1024 bytes

b) 1 Megabyte (MB) = 1024 KB
c) 1 GigaByte (GB) = 1024 MB
d) 1 TeraByte (TB) = 1024 GB
e) 1 PetaByte (PB) = 1024 TB

24. Nibble= group of 4 bits

25. Word = group of 2 bytes

26. Memory requirements of Datatypes

a) Int 2 bytes
b) Char 1 byte
c) Float 4 bytes
d) Double 8 bytes
e) Long double 10 bytes

27.Escape Characters
a) \n Newline

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b) \t Horizontal tab
c) \v vertical Tab
d) \b backspace
e) \r carriage return

28. Algorithm is a finite set of instructions

29. Program is a set of instructions

30. Algorithm always terminates while program may or may not terminate

31. Flowchart is pictorial or graphical representation of an Algorithm

32. flow chart begin with terminator “start” and end with terminator “stop “

33. By default direction of flowchart is top to down

34. (BOSS) Bharat Operating System Solutions developed in india by National

Research Center at CDAC over debian O.S

35. Float datatype is not operate on % (modulus operator)

36. Result of a logical or relational expression in C is always 0 or 1

37. By default number of digits present after decimal in float is 6

38. Father of computers “Charles Babage” computer conceived by him Called

“Analytical Engine”

39. Computer generations

a) First Generation (1946 to 1959) Vaccum Tubes
b) Second generation (1959 to 1965) Diodes & Transistors
c) Third generation (1965 to 1970) IC’s
d) Fourth generation (1971 to 1980) LSI and VLSI
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e) Fifth generation (1980 onwards) ULSI

40. ASCII  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

41. IDE  Integrated Development Environment

42. WWW  World Wide Web

43. EBCDIC  Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

44. Computer Memory

a) RAM  Random Access Memory (Volatile /Temporary)
b) ROM  Read Only Memory (Non Volatile/ Permanent)

MROM Maskable Read Only Memory

PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
EPROM Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory
EEPROM Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory
45. ALU  Arithmetic & Logical Unit
46. CPU Central Processing Unit
47. GUI Graphical User Interface
48. An operating system is a program that acts as an interface between the
software and the computer hardware.
49. Object code (.obj)
50. Executable file (.exe)

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