Compare to this:

    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main() {
        printf("Hello world!\n");
        return 0;
    }

Woo! Your first program and I count, at most, 2 things that could be described as "magic" for someone who's never seen C before (the stdio library and double quotes being syntactic sugar for an array of chars). Even then, those two things are deterministic, so they won't remain magical for long.

... which still gives the same impression: code is magic.