Instructions to write C Program

C Instructions


Now that we have written a few programs let us look at the instructions that we used in these  programs. There are basically three types of instructions in C:
  1. Type Declaration Instruction
  2. Arithmetic Instruction
  3. Control Instruction

The purpose of each of these instructions is given below:

     Type declaration instruction
To declare the type of variables used in a C program.
           Arithmetic instruction
To perform arithmetic operations between constants and variables.
           Control instruction
To control the sequence of execution of various statements in a C program.


Since, the elementary C programs would usually contain only the type declaration and the arithmetic instructions; we would discuss only these two instructions at this stage. The other types of instructions would be discussed in detail in the subsequent chapters.