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    A C program consists of several key sections: 1. Documentation section - Contains comments that describe the program 2. Preprocessor statements (link section) - Includes header files using directives like #include 3. Global declarations (definition section) - Defines global variables 4. The main() function - Contains the primary code that is executed, returns an exit status 5. User defined functions - Additional functions defined by the programmer to perform tasks

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    A C program consists of several key sections: 1. Documentation section - Contains comments that describe the program 2. Preprocessor statements (link section) - Includes header files using directives like #include 3. Global declarations (definition section) - Defines global variables 4. The main() function - Contains the primary code that is executed, returns an exit status 5. User defined functions - Additional functions defined by the programmer to perform tasks

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    C PROGRAM STRUCTURE

    A C program involves the following sections:

    • Documentations (Documentation Section)


    • Preprocessor Statements (Link Section)
    • Global Declarations (Definition Section)
    • The main() function
    o Local Declarations
    o Program Statements & Expressions
    • User Defined Functions

    Documentation Section
    Comments that we use in a c program comes under the
    documentation section. Comments are a way to tell the
    compiler that this block of code should be ignored.

    Comments are of two types:

    • Single line comment:- //


    • Multiple line comment:- /*Example code*/

    Example:-
    /* Assignment for C
    Date: 16-12-2021
    Description:
    Describing documentation section*/
    #include<stdio.h>

    void main()
    {
    printf("Hello, MSI!\n");

    }
    Preprocessor statement( Link section)
    The header files that we use to include in the program comes
    under the link section. The link section provides instructions to
    the compiler to link functions from the system library such as
    using the #include directive.
    The function we use in our program such as printf(), scan()
    comes from the stdio(standard input output) header file.
    All the header files included in the program must be enclosed
    within angular brackets.
    Link section looks like this:
    #include <stdio.h>

    Example:-
    #include<stdio.h>

    void main()
    {
    printf("Hello, World!\n");
    return;
    }

    Definition section
    The definition section is used to define a variable
    globally. Suppose the value of pi is 3.14 and we don’t
    want to declare it everytime we are taking the value of
    pi. So there, we can use #define pi = 3.14 it will globally
    store the value of pi as defined.
    Example:-
    #include <stdio.h>
    #define name "anas"
    void main(){
    float pi, radius;
    printf(“Name of student is &c:”, name);
    }

    The main() function


    The execution of every c program starts from main()
    function. All the code written in a main function will be
    executed first then the user-defined functions would be
    executed.

    This is the main function, which is the default entry point


    for every C program and the void in front of it indicates
    that it does not return a value.
    main() always returns a numeric value. The return 0
    value tells the compiler to terminate the program and if
    there’s an error in the code then it returns a non zero
    value. The bigger the return value the more severe will
    be the error.
    Example:-
    int main() {
    printf(“Hello, MSI”);
    return 0;
    }
    USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS
    When we want to define your function that fulfils
    a particular requirement, we can define them in
    this section.
    Suppose, we need to create a circle and color it
    depending upon the radius and color. We can create
    two functions to solve this problem:

    #include <stdio.h>
    int addNumbers(int a, int b);
    int main()
    {
    int n1,n2,sum;
    printf("Enters two numbers: ");
    scanf("%d %d",&n1,&n2);
    sum = addNumbers(n1, n2);
    printf("sum = %d",sum);
    return 0;
    }
    int addNumbers(int a, int b)
    {
    int result;
    result = a+b;
    return result;
    }

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