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Lesson 3. Introduction to Programming in C

Exercises

Exercise 1. Write a C program that prints on the screen a welcome message and asks the user’s
birth year, which must be stored in a variable named date. The program must calculate the
current age of the user and print on the screen You were born in <date>. You are
<age> this year, being date and age the read and the calculated value, respectively. You
are recommended to create the program incrementally, and to check compilation errors after
developing each program section.

Exercise 2. Write a C program that declares three variables (a, b, c), assigns the values 5, 7, 9
(respectively), and calculates the sum of them. Modify the program to read the values on the
keyboard.

Exercise 3. Write a program that calculates the interest gained after a bank deposit. The
program must ask the initial amount and the interest rate.

Exercise 4. Write a program that calculates the area of a right-angled triangle. The program
must ask the height and the length of the base. The output of the program must be: Right-
angled triangle of height __ and base __. Area __. (Blank spaces are filled
with the actual values).

(NOTE: Area = (base * height) / 2 )

Extend the program to calculate the area of a circumference.

Exercise 5. Mark variable declarations, assignment operations, operators, and expressions of

the following code. Which is the result of the evaluation of each expression?

int i1, i2, i3;

float r1, r2, r3;

i1=12;
i2=5;
r1=12.0;
r2 =5;
r3= r1/r2;
r3=i1/i2;
i3=i1/r2;

Exercise 6. Write a program to calculate the remainder of the division of two integers. Use the
module operator (%).

Exercise 7. Write a program that asks for a time value (in seconds) and transforms it into
minutes and seconds.

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Exercise 8. Write a program that asks for the user’s age and test if it is larger than 21 years. If
the read value is larger, the program must print 1; otherwise, the program must print 0.

Exercise 9. Write a program that declares two variables (a, b), assigns them two values read
from the keyboard, and swap their values.

Exercise 10. Write a C program to convert between peseta and euro currencies (1 euro =
166.386 pesetas). The program must read the amount in pesetas from the keyboard and print
on the screen the conversion to euros. Extend the program to convert the resulting euros to
dollars as well (1 euro = 1.31 dollars).

Exercise 11. Are the following statements right?

i = i + 1
printf("%d", 4+20);
printf("sum = var_one + var_two = %d + %d", var_one, var_two, sum);

Exercise 12. Write a program that ask for a temperature in the Fahrenheit scale and
transforms it into the Celsius scale.

(NOTE: Celsius = (Fahrenheit – 32) * 5 / 9 )

Exercise 13. Write a C program that prints on the screen a welcome message and asks the
user’s name. The program must print a personalized greetings message.

Exercise 14. Write a program that declares an integer variable and assigns it a value. The
program must show the value of the variable and its memory address.

Exercise 15. Which is the value of r after the following code snippet?

float n=6.0, m=2.0, r;

r = 25.0 + 120 * n / m;

Exercise 16. Find the errors of the following program:

int main(void) {

foat radius, circum;

printf(type the radius);
scanf("%f", &radius);
circum = 2 * PI * radius
printf("%f", circum);
return 0;

Exercise 17. Write a C program to assign the value 4/0 to an integer variable. What happens
when the program is compiled? What happens when the program is executed?

Exercise 18. Write a C program that reads two integer values from the keyboard (x, y) and
prints on the screen x/y and x%y. Run the program several times with different inputs. What
happens when the variable y gets the value 0?

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Exercise 19. Write a C program that reads three integer values from the keyboard a, b, c and
print on the screen 1 if (a > b > c), 0 otherwise.

Exercise 20. Write a C program that declares two variables, x (integer) and y (float) and
directly assign them the values 6 and 2.0. The program must print on the screen the results
of the expressions below:

x * y
3 * x * y
3 * x / y
3 * x % y

What happens when the program is compiled? How would you fix this error?

Exercise 21. Write a C program with the code below and compile it. Is there any error?

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void){
int a, b;
char string[8];
int c;
a=7; b=14; c=128;

printf ("Type a word: ");

scanf("%[^\n]", string);

printf("String is %s\n", string);

printf("Variables values are:\na=%d\nb=%d\nc=%d\n", a, b, c);

system("pause");
return 0;
}

Run the program by using Hello as input. What happens? Run the program again by entering
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. What happens?

Exercise 22. Write a C program with the code below and compile it. Study the output of the
program as a result of the use of different format modifiers.

#include <stdio.h>

int main (void) {

printf("Type formats in printf \n\n");
printf("------------------------\n");
printf("Floating point values \n");
printf("Float literal 1234.12345678\n");
printf("> 8 spaces, 1 decimal value 8.1f: [%8.1f] \n", 1234.12345678);
printf("> 8 spaces, 3 decimal values 8.3f: [%8.3f] \n", 1234.12345678);
printf("> 2 spaces, 3 decimal values 2.3f: [%2.3f] \n", 1234.12345678);
printf("> 12 spaces,6 decimal values 12.6f: [%12.6f] \n", 1234.12345678);
printf("> 20 spaces,6 decimal values 20.6f: [%20.6f] \n", 1234.12345678);
printf("> same as before, left align -20.6f: [%-20.6f] \n", 1234.12345678);
printf("\n------------------------\n");
printf("Strings \n");
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printf("String [hello madrid] \n");

printf("> Direct print: [hello madrid] \n");
printf("> With placeholder: [%s] \n", "hello madrid");
printf("> Using width specifier (20 spaces, 4 letters) 20.4s: [%20.4s] \n",
"hello madrid");

printf("\n");
system ("pause");
return (0);
}

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