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    C was initially developed between 1969-1973 as a system programming language for writing operating systems. It provides low-level access to memory and a simple set of keywords. Learning C helps understand computer fundamentals and provides faster execution speed than other languages, making it useful for embedded programming, operating systems, and application development. Linux is an open-source operating system based on the Linux kernel, initially released in 1991. Embedded Linux is designed for devices like consumer electronics, networking equipment, and machine control, providing customization, low power usage, and large community support.

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    C was initially developed between 1969-1973 as a system programming language for writing operating systems. It provides low-level access to memory and a simple set of keywords. Learning C helps understand computer fundamentals and provides faster execution speed than other languages, making it useful for embedded programming, operating systems, and application development. Linux is an open-source operating system based on the Linux kernel, initially released in 1991. Embedded Linux is designed for devices like consumer electronics, networking equipment, and machine control, providing customization, low power usage, and large community support.

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    C was initially developed between 1969-1973 as a system programming language for writing operating systems. It provides low-level access to memory and a simple set of keywords. Learning C helps understand computer fundamentals and provides faster execution speed than other languages, making it useful for embedded programming, operating systems, and application development. Linux is an open-source operating system based on the Linux kernel, initially released in 1991. Embedded Linux is designed for devices like consumer electronics, networking equipment, and machine control, providing customization, low power usage, and large community support.

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    C was initially developed between 1969-1973 as a system programming language for writing operating systems. It provides low-level access to memory and a simple set of keywords. Learning C helps understand computer fundamentals and provides faster execution speed than other languages, making it useful for embedded programming, operating systems, and application development. Linux is an open-source operating system based on the Linux kernel, initially released in 1991. Embedded Linux is designed for devices like consumer electronics, networking equipment, and machine control, providing customization, low power usage, and large community support.

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    Why learn C

    History

    ● C is a procedural programming language.


    ●It was initially developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and
    1973.
    It was mainly developed as a system programming language to
    ●

    write operating system.


    ● Low-level access to memory
    ● Simple set of keywords
    ● Clean style

    2
    Advantages of C Programming

    ● C is a Middle-Level Language.
    ●The middle-level languages are somewhere between the Low-
    level machine understandable assembly languages and High-
    Level user friendly languages.
    ●C reduces the gap between the low-level and high-level
    languages.
    ●It can be used for writing operating systems as well as doing
    application level programming.

    3
    Advantages of C Programming (Contd...)

    ● Helps to understand the fundamentals of Computer Theories.


    ●In the modern high level languages, the machine level details
    are hidden from the user, so in order to work with CPU cache,
    memory, network adapters, learning C programming is a must.
    ●Fewer Libraries
    C programming language has fewer libraries in comparison with
    other high-level languages.
    So, learning C programming also clears programming concepts
    to a great extent as you have to write lot of things from scratch.

    4
    Advantages of C Programming (Contd...)

    ● C is very fast in terms of execution time.

    Programs written and compiled in C executes much faster than


    compared to any other programming language.

    C programming language is very fast in terms of execution as it


    does not have any additional processing overheads such as
    garbage collection or preventing memory leaks etc.

    The programmer must take care of these things on his own.

    5
    Advantages of C Programming (Contd...)

    ● Embedded Programming.

    Embedded Programming is also referred to as micro-controller


    programming, where C program is used to control micro-
    controllers.

    Micro controllers and embedded programming is widely used in


    auto-motives, Robotics, Hardware's etc.

    6
    Linux OS

    ●Linux is a community of open-source Unix like operating


    systems that are based on the Linux Kernel.
    ● It initially released by Linus Torvalds on 1991.
    ● It is a free and open-source operating system
    ●The source code can be modified and distributed to anyone
    commercially or non commercially under the GNU General
    Public License.
    High Security, Large Community Support, High Stability and
    ●

    Higher performance.

    7
    Embedded Linux

    ●Embedded Linux is a type of Linux operating system/kernel that


    is designed to be installed and used within embedded devices
    and appliances like,
    --- Consumer electronics (set-top boxes, smart TVs, Mobile
    phones)
    --- In-vehicle infotainment (IVI)
    --- Networking equipment (such as routers, switches, wireless
    access points or wireless routers)
    --- Machine control applications
    ● Example: Android OS is an Example of Embedded Linux

    8
    Advantages of Linux in Embedded Systems

    ● Easy Customization
    ● Used in device-specific purpose-built applications
    ● Power consumption is lower
    ● Easily portable
    ● Large Community support
    ● Performance optimization
    ● Low cost

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