Lineage from C to Java

"Evolution" from C to Java

1972: Dennis Ritchie developed C at Bell Labs to write the UNIX operating system

C is a lean and mean programming language (with minimal type checking and no array bound check functionality)
C was developed from the programming language B that only accomodate machine word (= integer)
(The B programming language: click here)
C is still one of the most popular programming languages in the world: click here

1979: Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs added object oriented features to C and called the new language C++. ( click here )

C++ started out as a very useful object-oriented extension of C
But new features are continuously being added to C++ and it became a montrosity
Just Google "C++ monstrosity" and you will find quite a few complains on C++: click here

1995: James Gosling at Sun Microsystem has enough of the C++ crap and developed a stripped down and safer version of a C-styled object-oriented language called Java ( click here )

Due to the fact that Java is derived (indirectly) from C, and the fact that you already know Java, you have seen many features of C already !!!
This webpage contain some of the things that are identical in Java and C.

Arithmetic operators

Arithmentic operators: (add, subtract, multiply, divide, (modulo))

Integer: + - * / % Float: + - * /

Increment/decrement operators

Increment/decrement operators: (++, --)

Pre operators: ++x --x Post operators: x++ x--

Assignment operators

Assignment operators:

Integer Assignment operators: += -= *= /= %= Float Assignment operators: += -= *= /=

Comparison and Logical operators

Comaprison operators: (less than, less than or equal, and so on)

Comparison operators: < <= > >= == !=

Logical operators: (And, Or, Not)

Logical operators: && || !

Statements

Syntax of all statements (assignment, if, if-else, switch, while, for, do) are identical in C and Java

Examples:

x = (a + b) * (c + d % e);
if ( a > b ) max = a; else max = b;
while ( x < 10 ) x++;
for ( i = 0; i < n; i++ ) sum += i;

Break and continue
- The break and continue statements in C and Java have the same meaning: