Technical requirements
To complete this chapter and the rest of this book, you will need a running computer that has the following capabilities:
- A basic text editor that can save unformatted plain text
- A Terminal window where commands can be entered via the command line
- A compiler to build your C programs with
Each of these will be explained in more detail as we encounter them in this chapter.
The source code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-C-Programming-Second-Edition. However, please make every effort to type the source code in yourself. Even if you find this frustrating at first, you will learn far more and learn far more quickly if you do all the code entry yourself.