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C Programming: by - Bharati Gehani and Mrunal Kunjir

The document discusses some key concepts in C programming including character sets, keywords, identifiers, variables, and constants. It describes the valid characters in C including uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, and special characters. It explains that keywords are reserved words with fixed meanings, identifiers are names given to entities, and variables must be declared before use. It also outlines the rules for writing identifiers, variables, and different types of constants in C.

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C Programming: by - Bharati Gehani and Mrunal Kunjir

The document discusses some key concepts in C programming including character sets, keywords, identifiers, variables, and constants. It describes the valid characters in C including uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, and special characters. It explains that keywords are reserved words with fixed meanings, identifiers are names given to entities, and variables must be declared before use. It also outlines the rules for writing identifiers, variables, and different types of constants in C.

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C programming

BY -BHARATI GEHANI
AND MRUNAL KUNJIR
CHARACTER SET

• Character set are the set of alphabets, letters and some special
characters that are valid in C language.
• Alphabets: 
• Uppercase: A B C  ....................................  X Y Z 
• Lowercase: a b c  ......................................  x y z
• Digits:
• 0 1 2 3 4 5 6  8 9
• Special Characters:
• Special Characters in C language,<>._();$:%[]#?'&{}"^!*/|-\~+
•  White space Characters:
• blank space, new line, horizontal tab, carriage return and form feed
KEYWORDS

• Keywords are the reserved words used in


programming. Each keywords has fixed meaning
and that cannot be changed by user. For
example:
• int money;Here, int is a keyword that indicates,
'money' is of type integer. 
• As, C programming is case sensitive, all keywords
must be written in lowercase.
IDENTIFIERS
• In C programming, identifiers are names given to C entities, such as variables, functions,
structures etc. Identifier are created to give unique name to C entities to identify it during the
execution of program. For example:
• int money; int mango_tree;Here, money is a identifier which denotes a variable of type integer.
Similarly, mango_tree is another identifier, which denotes another variable of type integer.
• Rules for writing identifier
• An identifier can be composed of letters (both uppercase and lowercase letters), digits and
underscore '_' only.
• The first letter of identifier should be either a letter or an underscore. But, it is discouraged to
start an identifier name with an underscore though it is legal. It is because, identifier that starts
with underscore can conflict with system names. In such cases, compiler will complain about it.
Some system names that start with underscore are _fileno, _iob, _wfopen etc.
• There is no rule for the length of an identifier. However, the first 31 characters of an identifier
are discriminated by the compiler. So, the first 31 letters of two identifiers in a program should
be different
VARIABLES
• Rules for writing variable name in C
• Variable name can be composed of letters (both uppercase and
lowercase letters), digits and underscore '_' only.
• The first letter of a variable should be either a letter or an underscore.
But, it is discouraged to start variable name with an underscore though
it is legal. It is because, variable name that starts with underscore can
conflict with system names and compiler may complain.
• There is no rule for the length of a variable. However, the first 31
characters of  a variable are discriminated by the compiler. So, the first
31 letters of two variables in a program should be different.
• In C programming, you have to declare variable before using it in the
program
CONSTANTS
• Constants
• Constants are the terms that can't be changed during the execution of a program. For
example: 1, 2.5, "Programming is easy." etc. In C, constants can be classified as:
• Integer constants
• Integer constants are the numeric constants(constant associated with number) without any
fractional part or exponential part. There are three types of integer constants in C language:
decimal constant(base 10), octal constant(base 8) and hexadecimal constant(base 16) .
• Decimal digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Octal digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• Hexadecimal digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F.
• For example:
• Decimal constants: 0, -9, 22 etc Octal constants: 021, 077, 033 etc Hexadecimal constants:
0x7f, 0x2a, 0x521 etcNotes:
• You can use small caps a, b, c, d, e, f instead of uppercase letters while writing a hexadecimal
constant.
• Every octal constant starts with 0 and hexadecimal constant starts with 0x in C programming .
THANK YOU

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