HD.Coding

A structure in C is a collection of items of different types. You can think of a structure as a "record" is in Pascal or a class in Java without methods. Structures, or structs, are very useful in creating data structures larger and more complex than the ones we have discussed so far. Simply you can group various built-in data types into a structure. Object conepts was derived from Structure concept. You can achieve few object oriented goals using C structure but it is very complex. Following is the example how to define a structure. struct student { char firstName[20]; char lastName[20]; char SSN[9]; float gpa; }; Now you have a new datatype called student and you can use this datatype define your variables of  student  type: struct student student_a, student_b; or an array of students as struct student students[50]; Another way to declare the same thing is: struct { char firstName[20]; char lastName[20]; char SSN[10]; ...

In C language Strings are defined as an array of characters or a pointer to a portion of memory containing ASCII characters. A string in C is a sequence of zero or more characters followed by a NULL '\0' character: It is important to preserve the NULL terminating character as it is how C defines and manages variable length strings. All the C standard library functions require this for successful operation. All the string handling functions are prototyped in: string.h or stdio.h standard header file. So while using any string related function, don't forget to include either stdio.h or string.h. May be your compiler differes so please check before going ahead. If you were to have an array of characters WITHOUT the null character as the last element, you'd have an ordinary character array, rather than a string constant. String constants have double quote marks around them, and can be assigned to char pointers as shown below. Alternatively, you can assign a string co...

A function is a module or block of program code which deals with a particular task. Making functions is a way of isolating one block of code from other independent blocks of code. Functions serve two purposes. They allow a programmer to say: `this piece of code does a specific job which stands by itself and should not be mixed up with anyting else', Second they make a block of code reusable since a function can be reused in many different contexts without repeating parts of the program text. A function can take a number of parameters, do required processing and then return a value. There may be a function which does not return any value. You already have seen couple of built-in functions like printf(); Similar way you can define your own functions in C language. Consider the following chunk of code int total = 10; printf("Hello World"); total = total + l; To turn it into a function you simply wrap the code in a pair of curly brackets to convert i...

A pointer is a special kind of variable. Pointers are designed for storing memory address i.e. the address of another variable. Declaring a pointer is the same as declaring a normal variable except you stick an asterisk '*' in front of the variables identifier. There are two new operators you will need to know to work with pointers. The "address of" operator '&' and the "dereferencing" operator '*'. Both are prefix unary operators. When you place an ampersand in front of a variable you will get it's address, this can be stored in a pointer vairable. When you place an asterisk in front of a pointer you will get the value at the memory address pointed to. Here is an example to understand what I have stated above. #include <stdio.h> int main() { int my_variable = 6, other_variable = 10; int *my_pointer; printf("the address of my_variable is : %p\n", &my_variable); printf("the address of o...

Input :  In any programming language input means to feed some data into program. This can be given in the form of file or from command line. C programming language provides a set of built-in functions to read given input and feed it to the program as per requirement. Output :  In any programming language output means to display some data on screen, printer or in any file. C programming language provides a set of built-in functions to output required data. Here we will discuss only one input function and one putput function just to understand the meaning of input and output. Rest of the functions are given into  C - Built-in Functions printf() function This is one of the most frequently used functions in C for output. ( we will discuss what is function in subsequent chapter. ). Try following program to understand  printf()  function. #include <stdio.h> main() { int dec = 5; char str[] = "abc"; char ch = 's'; float pi = 3.14; printf("%...

C provides two sytles of flow control: Branching Looping Branching is deciding what actions to take and looping is deciding how many times to take a certain action. Branching: Branching is so called because the program chooses to follow one branch or another. if statement This is the most simple form of the branching statements. It takes an expression in parenthesis and an statement or block of statements. if the expression is true then the statement or block of statements gets executed otherwise these statements are skipped. NOTE:  Expression will be assumed to be true if its evaulated values is non-zero. if  statements take the following form: Show Example if (expression) statement; or if (expression) { Block of statements; } or if (expression) { Block of statements; } else { Block of statements; } or if (expression) { Block of statements; } else if(expression) { Block of statements; } else { Block of...

What is Operator?  Simple answer can be given using expression  4 + 5 is equal to 9 . Here 4 and 5 are called operands and + is called operator. C language supports following type of operators. Arithmetic Operators Logical (or Relational) Operators Bitwise Operators Assignment Operators Misc Operators Lets have a look on all operators one by one. Arithmetic Operators: There are following arithmetic operators supported by C language: Assume variable A holds 10 and variable B holds 20 then: Show Examples Operator Description Example + Adds two operands A + B will give 30 - Subtracts second operand from the first A - B will give -10 * Multiply both operands A * B will give 200 / Divide numerator by denumerator B / A will give 2 % Modulus Operator and remainder of after an integer division B % A will give 0 ++ Increment operator, increases integer value by one A++ will give 11 -- Decrement operator, decreases integer value by one A-- will give 9 ...