Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn.

Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

The awesome power of C cuts both ways. Here’s what to watch out for, and how to keep your C programs on the straight and narrow. Few programming languages can match C for sheer speed and machine ...

A compiler is a computer program that translates from one format to another, most often from a high-level computer language to byte code and machine code. Compilers come in a number of variations ...

While the old C++ compiler, cfront, needed special steps to compile (since it was built using C++), you can build cake for Windows or Linux easily.

With no branches, each line of code executes. In fact, though, the compiler makes a few compromises including using a jump to call external functions and a floating point instruction.