1. Embedded C Course
Fady Mohammed Osman
Mail: Fady_moa@yahoo.com

2. Historical info
 C was created in 1973 by Ken Thompson and
Dennis Ritchie to program the unix os.
 It was inherted from the b programming language
and that's why it's called c.
 B itself was inherted from BCPL(basic combined
programming language.

3. About C
 Platform independent.
 Procedural programming Language.
 Generic programming language.
 Intended to be system programming language.
 It has low­level capabilities.
 Used in windows kernel and linux kernel and
mac os kernel.
 Not Object­Oriented.

4. .h and .c files
 .h or .hpp contains a prototype of functions.
 .c or .cpp contains the actual code.

5. Process of building a program
Header .h or .hpp file
Source .c or .cpp file
Pre processor
Preprocessed code .i file
Compiler
Assembly code fie .s file
Assembler
Object file .o and libraries
Linker
Excutable file .exe or .app
or bin file

6. Integrated Development
Enviroment ­ IDE
 What is IDE??
 Examples:
 Visual Studio (Windows only).
 Eclipse (Windows,Linux, and mac).
 Code::Blocks (Windows,linux, and mac).
 Also there's a lot of IDE's out there feel free to
try them.

7. Eclipse setup
and
Example 1