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User-Defined Data Types Lesson

The document discusses data types in programming, categorizing them into primitive and user-defined types. Primitive data types are built-in and atomic, while user-defined types allow programmers to create custom data structures, which can be composite (like records and sets) or non-composite (like enumerated types and pointers). The record data type is highlighted as a widely used composite type that contains multiple fields of different data types, similar to a row in a table.

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User-Defined Data Types Lesson

The document discusses data types in programming, categorizing them into primitive and user-defined types. Primitive data types are built-in and atomic, while user-defined types allow programmers to create custom data structures, which can be composite (like records and sets) or non-composite (like enumerated types and pointers). The record data type is highlighted as a widely used composite type that contains multiple fields of different data types, similar to a row in a table.

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Data types

Primitive data types


• Primitive data types are those variables that can be
defined simply by commands built into the
programming language.
• Primitive data types are also known as atomic data
types.
User-Defined Data
Types
User-Defined Data Types
• The data types that are defined by the user/
programmer are called user-defined data type.
• Sometimes the primitive data types limit
programmers’ requirements therefore they end up
designing their own data types.
• There are two categories of user-defined data types:
• Composite
• Record data type
• Set data type
• Objects and classes
• Non-composite
• Enumerated data type
• Pointer data type
Composite data type
• These are data types that have one or more
fields dynamically linked to fields in another data
type (primitive data types).
• The record data type is the most useful and most
widely used.
Record data type

• is a data type that contains a fixed number of components / elements


(called fields) which can be of different data types
• - a record corresponds to a row in a table. Each field in the record is
used to store values of a certain data type. The fields are accessed
using the name of the record and the field name.
Pseudocode: Define a Record Type
TASK 1:

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