Exercises : Answer the following Question

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Workshop
To help solidify your understanding of this hour's lesson, you are encouraged to answer the quiz questions and finish the exercises provided in the Workshop before you move to the next lesson. The answers and hints to the questions and exercises are given in Appendix E, "Answers to Quiz Questions and Exercises."

 

Quiz

  1. Can a C compiler see the comments within your C program?
  2. What kinds of files does a C compiler actually produce?
  3. Does the exit() function return a value? How about the return statement?
  4. What is a header file?

 

    void main()
    {
       printf ("Howdy, neighbor! This is my first C program.\n");
       return 0;
    }

 

Exercises

1. Is #include <stdio.h> the same as #include "stdio.h"?

 

2. It's time for you to write your own first program. Referring to the program in Listing 2.1, write a C program that can print out a message: It's fun to write my own program in C.

 

3. Update the program in Listing 2.1 by adding one more newline character into the message printed out by the printf() function. You should see two lines of the message on the screen after running the updated executable file:

 

    Howdy, neighbor!
    This is my first C program.

 

4. What warning or error messages will you get when you're trying to compile the following program?

 

    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    main()
    {
       printf ("Howdy, neighbor! This is my first C program.\n");
       exit(0);
    }

 

5. What error messages will you get when you're trying to compile the following program?

 

 

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