C in 100 Seconds

Summary by Krater

An introduction to the C programming language, covering its history from 1972 at Bell Labs, low-level memory management via pointers and malloc, and a basic hello world code example.

From the video

Answers: What is the C programming language and how do you get started with it?

• C programming language history
• Low-level memory management
• Pointers in C
• Writing a basic C program

What it concludes

• C is a procedural programming language created in 1972 at Bell Labs to develop the Unix operating system.
• C requires manual memory management instead of using a garbage collector.
• The C language is procedural and does not support object-oriented features.
• C compiles directly to machine code and requires minimal runtime support.