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The document discusses the C programming language and provides examples of basic C programs. It covers why C is useful to learn, the structure of a basic C program, variables, data types, comments, keywords, constants, input/output functions like printf and scanf, and functions. It also provides examples of simple C programs.

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The document discusses the C programming language and provides examples of basic C programs. It covers why C is useful to learn, the structure of a basic C program, variables, data types, comments, keywords, constants, input/output functions like printf and scanf, and functions. It also provides examples of simple C programs.

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The C Programming Language

Why learn C ?
• "Least common denominator" - good building block
for learning other languages
– Subset of C++
– Similar to JAVA
• Closeness to machine allows one to learn about
system-level details
• Portable - compilers available for most platforms
• Very fast
The first C program
#include <stdio.h>
void main ()
{
printf ("Hello, World! \n") ;
}

• All programs run from the main function


• printf is a function in the library stdio.h
Second C program
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
int x = 1, y;
int sum;

y = 3;
sum = x + y; /* adds x to y, places
value in variable sum */
printf( “%d plus %d is %d\n”, x, y, sum );
}
Comments
• Any string of symbols placed between the
delimiters /* and */.
• Can span multiple lines
• Can’not be nested! Be careful.
• /* /* /* Hi */ is an example of a comment.
• /* Hi */ */ is going to generate a parse error
Keywords
Reserved words that cannot be used as variable
names
OK within comments . . .
Examples: break, if, else, do, for, while, int, void
Exhaustive list in any C book
Identifiers
• A token (word) composed of a sequence of letters,
digits, and underscore (_) character. (NO spaces.)
– First character cannot be a digit
– C is case sensitive, so beware (e.g. printf
Printf)
• Identifiers such as printf normally would not be
redefined; be careful
• Used to give names to variables, functions, etc.
• Only the first 31 characters matter
Constants
• 0, 77, 3.14 examples.
• Strings: double quotes. “Hello”
• Characters: single quotes. ‘a’ , ‘z’
• Have types implicitly associated with them
• 1234567890999 too large for most machines
Simple Data Types
void
Integer types (signed or unsigned): char,
short int, int, long int
char is an 8 bit (=1 byte) number
Floating-point types: float, double, long
double
Char type

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Input and Output
• printf : performs output to the standard output
device (typically defined to be the monitor)
– It requires a format string to which we can provide
• The text to print out
• Specifications on how to print the values
printf ("The number is %d.\n", num) ;
The format specification %d causes the value listed after
the format string to be embedded in the output as a
decimal number in place of %d.
Input
• scanf : performs input from the standard input
device, which is the keyboard by default.
– It requires a format string and a list of variables
into which the value received from the input
device will be stored.
• scanf ("%d", &size) ;
• scanf ("%c", &choice) ;
• scanf ("%f", &length) ;
Variables
• Variables hold the values upon which a program acts.
• The following declares a variable that will contain an
integer value.
int num_of_students ;

The compiler reserves an integer's worth of memory for


num_of_students
In C, all variables must be declared BEFORE they can be
used.
More on Variables
• A variable declaration conveys three pieces of
information
– the variable's identifier
– its type
– its scope - the region of the program in which the
variable is accessible.
(implicitly specified by the place in the code where
the declaration occurs.)
C Program # 3
• #include <stdio.h>
main ()
{
int num_of_students ;
scanf ("%d", &num_of_students) ;
printf ("%d \n", num_of_students) ;
}
Sample C program #4
#include <stdio.h> float myfunc (float r)
#define PI 3.1415926 {
float a;
/* Compute the area of a circle */ a = PI * r * r;
main() /* return result */
{ return (a);
float radius, area; }
float myfunc (float radius);

scanf (“%f”, &radius);


area = myfunc (radius);
printf (“\n Area is %f \n”,
area);
}

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