Week 01a: Introduction - Elementary Data and Control Structures in C (80)

A structure

is a collection of variables, perhaps of different types, grouped together under a single name
helps to organise complicated data into manageable entities
exposes the connection between data within an entity
is defined using the struct keyword

Example:

struct date {
       int day;
       int month;
       int year;
}; // don't forget the semicolon!