Introduction

• I believe that nobody can learn C++ or Java directly. This is because while learning these languages you have things like classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, templates, exception handling, references, etc.
• Major parts of popular operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux is still written in C. This is because even today when it comes to performance (speed of execution) nothing beats C, , if one is to extend the operating system to work with new devices one needs to write device driver programs. These programs are exclusively written in C.
• Mobile devices like cellular phones and palmtops are becoming increasingly popular. Also, common consumer devices like microwave oven, washing machines and digital cameras are getting smarter by the day. This smartness comes from a microprocessor.
• You must have seen several professional 3D computer games where the user navigates some object, like say a spaceship and fires bullets at the invaders.
• At times one is required to very closely interact with the hardware devices. Since C provides several language elements that make this interaction feasible without compromising the performance it is the preferred choice of the programmer.

Learning C is Similer as rules out English as the language of communication with computer.