Objectives of this Chapter:

- To teach about what is programming, why we need to learn programming and programming career.

Chapter Outcomes:

After completing this chapter students should able to

• Do code with all types of basic datatypes  
• convert one type of data into another 
• Input String and Display string with new functions gets() and puts ()
• find out the mod of two Integers
• understand the naming convention of  variables
• Clear knowledge about variables

chapter contents: 

• Floating-point Numbers
• Converting Integers to Floating-point and vice-versa
• Mixed-mode Expressions
•  The typecast Operator
•  The type char, Keywords, Character Input and Output
•  Formatted input and output, The gets() and puts() functions
•  Interactive Programming.