Understanding program elements

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The elements we used are listed below :

1. #
2. include
3. < >
4. stdio.h
5. main()
6. { }
7. printf("Hi this is my First C program")
8. ;

• # is called pre-processor which does preliminary work  before executing your code. It is like making some arrangements to let compiler understand your code.
• include is a folder which contains some pre-written codes called header files. So both #include combines to form a directive which reads a file in folder and pre-processes it.
• stdio.h it is a header file which contains codes for standard input output functions i.e. for I/O operations that we don't need to bother. To make I/O easy for us this header files provides us some names that we can directly write in our program and have our task completed. These names are called functions, they contain a procedure written in header file.
• < > in combination used to bind header file name.
• main() is a function whose procedure is given by programmer. Like we have given printf("Hi this is my First C program"); 
• { } is used to bind the statements and tell their identity i.e. under which element these statements are binded
• printf() is also a function, it is described in stdio.h header file. To use this function all you have to do is that just put what ever you want to print on screen inside ( ) in between " ", it will print it same as you mention.
• ; is a semicolon that terminates any statement in program. Like we used it at the end of printf().

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