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-Programming Standards
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-We will use the CMU C Style standards.
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+##Programming Standards
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+We will use the CMU C Style standards as presented in C_Coding_Standard.pdf, located within the documents directory. This is the programming standard adapted by Carnegie Mellon University to be used for the C programming language.