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Whenever a symbolic name is encountered, the compiler substitutes the value associated with the name automatically. To change the value, we have to simply change the definition. A constant is defined as follows: define symbolic-name value of constant 1. C programs are divided into modules or functions.

Some functions are written by users, like us, and many others are stored in the C library. Library functions are grouped category-wise and stored in different files known as header files. If we want to access the functions stored in the library, it is necessary to tell the compiler about the files to be accessed.

Preprocessor directives are placed at the beginning of a program. What does void main void mean? The main is a part of a every C program. C permits different forms of main statement.

Following forms are allowed. This may be explicitly indicated by using the keyword void inside the parentheses. We may also specify the keyword int or void before the word main. The keyword void means that the function does not return any information to the operating system and int means that the function returns an integer value to the operating system. It is a good practice to use comment lines in the beginning to give information such as name of the program, author, date, etc. Comment characters are also used in other lines to indicate line numbers.

The generous use of comments inside a program cannot be overemphasized. Since comments do not affect the execution speed and the size of a compiled program, we should use them liberally in our programs.

Judiciously inserted comments not only increase the readability but also help to understand the program logic. Look of a program is very important. If anyone is working in an IT industry, as his or her program is going to be referred by many people. When they read the program they should get clear idea about what that program is written for and they should not even need to read all the program. For that when anyone writes a program one must use some coding conventions, such as: standard variable name format, function name format etc.

A proper indentation of braces and statements is very important for the good look of a program. This is very important for debugging and testing the program. C is a free form language. Blank spaces are completely valid at the beginning, middle or end of a line except in keywords and identifiers.

Spaces are permitted in stings which are enclosed in double quotes " ". An overview of a C program A C program may contain one or more sections: The documentation section consists of a set of common lines giving the name of the program, the author and other details, which the programmer would like to use later. The link section provides instructions to the compiler to link functions from the system library. The definition section defines all symbolic constants.

There are some variables that are used in more than one function. This section also declares all the user- defined functions. Every C program must have one main function section. This section contains two parts, declaration part and executable part. The declaration part declares all the variables used in the executable part. There is at least one statement in the executable part. These two parts must appear between the opening and the closing braces.

The program execution begins at the opening brace and ends at the closing brace. The closing brace of the main function section is the logical end of the program. All statements in the declaration and executable parts end with a semicolon ;. The subprogram section contains all the user-defined functions that are called in the main function.

User-defined functions are generally placed immediately after the main function, although they may appear in any order. All sections, except the main function section may be absent when they are not required. Creating the program: Once we load the UNIX operating system into the memory, the computer is ready to receive program. The program must be entered into a file. The file name can consist of letters, digits and special characters, followed by a dot and a letter c.

Examples of valid file names are: hello. If it does not yet exist, the file has to be created so that it is ready to receive the new program. Any corrections in the program are done under the editor. When the editing is over, the file is saved in the disk.

It can then be referenced any time later by its file name. The program that is entered into the file is known the source program, since it represents the original form of the program. Executing the program: Execution is a simple task. The command a. During execution, the program may request for some data to be entered through the keyboard. Sometimes the program does not produce the desired results. Perhaps, something is wrong with the program logic or data. Then it would be necessary to correct the source program or the data.

In case the source program is modified, the entire process of compiling, linking and executing the program should be repeated. To compile and link source program files, we must append all the files names to the cc command. It is also possible to compile each file separately and link them later. They can be linked together by the command cc mod1.

This approach is useful when one of the multiple source files need to be changed and recompiled or an already existing object files is to be used along with the program to be compiled. C Compiler and preprocessor. O Library a. False b All variables must be given a type when they are declared. True c Declarations can appear anywhere in a program. False e The underscore can be used anywhere in an identifier.

True f The keyword void is a data type in C. True g Floating point data constants, by default, denote float type values. False h Like variables, constants have a type. True i Character constants are coded using double quotes. False j Initialization is the process of assigning a value to a variable at the time of declaration.

True l The scanf function can be used to read only one value at a time. False 2. Answer: int b …………… is the largest value that an unsigned short int type variable can store. Answer: external d A variable can be made constant by declaring it with the qualifier ……………. Answer: constant 2. How are they useful? Trigraph characters is one kinds of character which consists of three characters Two question marks and followed by another.

Some keyboard does not support some characters. But we can use them by trigraph characters. For example: If a keyboard does not support square brackets, we can still use them in a program using the trigraph?? How could we extend the range of values they represent?

We could extend the range of integer by using long before integer. We can extend the range of float by using double. To extend the precision further we may use long double. Generally, integers occupy one word of storage, and since the word sizes of machines vary tipically, 16 or 32 bits the size of an integer that can be stored depends on the computer. A signed integer uses one bit for sign and 15 bits for the magnitude of the number.

Similarly, a 32 bit word length can store an integer ranging from -2,,, to 2,,, In order to provide some control over the range of numbers and storage space, C has three classes of integer storage, namely short int, int, and long int, in both signed and unsigned forms.

ANSI C defines these types so that they can be organized from the smallest to the largest. For example, short int represents fairly small integer values and requires half the amount of storage as a regular int number uses. Unlike signed integers, unsigned integers use all the bits for the magnitude of the number and are always positive.

Therefore, for a 16 bit machine, the range of unsigned integer numbers will be from 0 to 65, We declare long and unsigned integers to increase the range of values. The use of qualifier signed on integers is optional because the default declaration assumes a signed number.

Floating point Types: Floating point or real numbers are stored in 32 bits on all 16 bit and 32 bit machines , with 6 digits of precision.

Floating point numbers are defined in C by the keyword float. Double Types: When the accuracy provided by a float number is not sufficient, the type double can be used to define the number. A double data type number is not sufficient, the type double can be used to define the number. A double data type number uses 64 bits giving a precision of 14 digits. These are known as double precision numbers.

Double type represents the same data type that float represents, but with a greater precision. To extend the precision further, we may use long double which uses 80 bits. Characters are usually stored in 8 bits one byte of internal storage.

The qualifier signed or unsigned may be explicitly applied to char. While unsigned chars have values between 0 and , signed chars have values from to How can we extend the range of values they represents: We can extend the range of values of integer types by using the qualifier long and unsigned before int.

We can extend the range of values of floating type data by using double data type. To extend the precision further we may use the qualifier long before double. The qualifier unsigned may be explicitly applied to char to extend the range of character data type.

What is the significant of declaring a constant unsigned? An unsigned constant will not have any sign means, it will be having positive values only. Moreover we can double the range and store large number by using unsigned.

C supports some special back slash character constants, that are used in output function. This characters are known as escape sequence characters. Characteristics : a. Although it consists of two characters, it represents single character.

They are nonprinting characters. It can also be expressed in terms of octal digits or hexadecimal sequence. Escape sequence in character constants and string literals are replaced by their equivalent and then adjacent string literals are concatenated.

Purpose: 1. In a program we use it for new line. In a program we use it for horizontal tab. We can represent any member of the execution character set by an escape sequence.

Escape sequences are primarily used to put nonprintable characters in character and string literals. A variable is a data name that may be used to store a data value. Unlike constants that remains unchanged during the execution of a program. A variable can take different values at different times during execution, just like character, int, float and double.

A variable may be used to store data value. A variable may take different values at different times during execution of a program. Variables need to declare at the beginning of the body but after the main.

Symbolic names are unique constants. These constants may appear in a number of place in the program. Symbolic names need to be defined at the beginning of a program. Variables are declared at the beginning of the body but after the main.

All variables must be declared before they can appear in executable statements. The syntax for declaring a variable is as follow: Data-type v1,v2,…….. Definition of a symbolic name must not end with a semicolon.

A variable may take different values at different times during execution. Symbolic name should not be assigned any other value within the program by using an assignment statement. Symbolic names are not declared for data type. Its data type depends on the type of constant. But we must declare the data type of a variable. This is only a convention not a rule. An instance of an object is created when a variable is declared.

Definition of a symbolic name just defines a name that can be used in the program. Why it is important? The process of giving initial values to variables is called initialization.

C allows ordinary variables, structures, unions and arrays to be given initial values in their definitions. There are basically two sorts of initialization: at compile time, and at run time. External and static variables are initialized to zero by default. Automatic variables that are not initialized explicitly will contain garbage.

For example the following statements are valid. If we do not initialize a variable it will contain garbage value. Initialization helps us to understand a program. An uninitialized variable holds the value of the previous memory contents sometimes.

This becomes a problem when using pointers which should be initialized to null until we are ready to use them because they point at anything. The ebook Programming in ANSI C has been developed particularly to satisfy the wants of a first-time learner whos eager to be a programmer.

I am new to C programming trying to keep up with sixth edition which I guess has so many mistakes. Our solutions are written by Chegg experts so you can be assured of the highest quality. For example: volatile int date; The value of date may be altered by some external factors even if it does not appear on the left-hand side of an assignment statement.

When we declare a variable as volatile, the compiler will examine the value of the variable each time it is encountered to see whether any external alteration has changed the value. The value of a variable declared as volatile can be modified by its own program as well. When dealing with very small numbers I will like to use the qualifier short before data type int if the number is integer.

Or if the number is floating point type I will use float data type to improve the accuracy of the calculations. When dealing with very large number if the number is a integer I will use the qualifier long before int. If the number is a positive integer I may use the qualifier unsigned or unsigned long.

If the number is floating point type I will use data type double or use the qualifier long before double to improve the accuracy of the calculations. Minimum Answer: valid First. Sign is not permitted. Doubles Answer: Valid Reason: Keyword may be a part of variable name. Column total Answer: Invalid Reason: White space is not permitted.

Int x; Answer : Error. It should be : double p,q; exponent alpha,beta; Answer : Error. It should be : long int m, count; long float temp; Answer : Error. Answer : False. Answer : True. If valid , give the value of the expression ; otherwise give reason. Because the number 3 is int type.

Explain the output. So the expression is true and the statement after it is executed. So the output is TRUE. But getchar does not use any format specifiers it only takes character as input. At a time scanf can receive multiple data types as inputs. But getchar can't do this. As getchar is a macro thats why it helps to make program run faster. The getchar function accepts any character keyed in.

But it stops reading that string when the first whitespace character is encountered. A whitespace character is either a space, a tab, or a newline. Trailing zeros and trailing decimal point will not be displayed.

The getchar function may be called successively to read the characters contained in a line of text thus we can use the getchar function to read multi character strings.

The putchar function may be called successively to output the characters contained in a line of text thus we can use the putchar function to output multi character strings. For example, the following program segment output characters from keyboard one after another. Input data can be entered into computer from a standard input device by means of the C library function scanf. This function can be used to enter any combination of numerical values, single characters and strings.

The function returns the number of data items that have been entered successfully. Control string and arguments are separated by commas. Control string also known as format string contains field specifications, which direct the interpretation of input data. Blanks, tabs, or newlines. Blanks, tabs and newlines are ignored. The data type character indicates the type of data that is to be assigned to the variable associated with the corresponding argument. The field width specifier is optional.

The main purpose of commonly used conversion characters in a scanf function is these indicate what type of data we take as intput. It is possible to limit the number of such characters by specifying a maximum field width for that data item. This is because the space acts as a data item separator. Output data can be written from the computer onto a standard output device using the library function printf.

This function can be used to output any combination of numerical values, single characters and strings. The printf statement provides certain features that can be effectively exploited to control the alignment and spacing of print-outs on the terminals. Characters that will be printed on the screen as they appear. Format specifications that define the output format for display of each item. The control string indicates how many arguments follow and what their types are. The arguments arg1, arg2, …, argn are the variables whose values are formatted and printed according to the specifications of the control string.

The arguments should match in number, order and type with the format specification. The main purpose of commonly used conversion characters in a printf function is these indicate what type of data we print as output. But control string in a scanf function can include blanks, tabs, or newlines. But blanks, tabs or newlines are ignored.

Control string in a printf function can consists of characters that will be printed on the screen as they appear. The number is written right-justified in the given field width.

The unrecognized characters will be read into the computer but not assigned to an identifier. Ans: False. Ans: True. Ans: switch. Ans: if…else. Solution: a 2,0 b 1,0 5. Correct answer: switch y b case 10; Answer : Error. Correct answer: case Semicolon ; after break. That means there will be no output. Answer: n-1 b The statements is use to skip a part of the statements in a loop.

Answer: continue. Answer: infinite d The sentinel controlled loop is also; known as loop. Answer: indefinite repetition. Answer: definite repetition. If yes, explain its consequences.

No, we cannot change the control variable in both the for statement and the body of the loop. It is a logic error. If we change the value of the control variable in for statement the number of iterations will be changed.

Explain a typical use of it. It is not a syntax error, it is a logical error. There are many reasons for this. When goto is used, many compilers generate a less efficient code. In addition, using many of them makes a program logic complicated and renders the program unreadable. But since a goto statement can transfer the control to any place in a program, it is useful to provide branching within a loop.

Another important use of goto is to exit from a deeply nested loops when an error occurs. To choose one of the three loop supported by C, we may use the following strategy: 1. Analyse the problem and see whether it required a pre-test or post-test loop. If it requires a post-test loop, then we can use only one loop, do while. If it requires a pre-test loop, then we have two choices: for and while.

Decided whether the loop termination requires counter-based control or sentinel-based control. Use for loop it the counter-based control is necessary. Use while loop if the sentinel-based control is required. Note that both the counter-controlled and sentinel-controlled loops can be implemented by all the three control structures. It does not matter if we know the number of iterations or not, the for loop is the same. The test-condition is evaluated and if the condition is true, then the body of the loop is executed.

After execution of the body, the test-condition is once again evaluated and if it is true, the body is executed once again. This process of repeated execution of the body continues until the test-condition finally becomes false and the control is transferred out of the loop. On exit, the program continues with the statement immediately after the body of the loop.

The body of the loop may have one or more statements. The braces are needed only if the body contains two or more statements. However, it is a good practice to use braces even if the body has only one statement.

At the end of the loop, the test-condition in the while statement is evaluated. If the condition is true, the program continues to evaluate the body of the loop once again. This process continues as long as the condition is true. When the condition becomes false, the loop will be terminated and the control goes to the statement that appears immediately after the while statement.

Since the test-condition is evaluated at the bottom of the loop, the do…while construct provides an exit-controlled loop and therefore the body of the loop is always executed at least once. A goto is often used at the end of a program to direct the control to go to the input statement, to read further data. The variables i and count are known as loop-control variables.

The value of the control variable is tested using the test-condition. If the condition is true, the body of the loop is executed; otherwise the loop is terminated and the execution continues with the statement that immediately follows the loop.

When the body of the loop is executed, the control is transferred back to the for statement after evaluating the last statement in the loop. If the condition is satisfied, the body of the loop is again executed.

This process continues till value of the control variable fails to satisfy the test-condition. When the loops are nested, the break would only exit from the loop containing it.

That is, the break will exit only a single loop. Exit ……. Exit ….. Since a goto statement can transfer the control to any place in a program, it is useful to provide branching within a loop. Another important use of goto is to exit from deeply nested loops when an error occurs. It can be used to transfer the control out of a loop or nested loops when certain peculiar conditions are encountered.

C supports a statement called the continue statement. The continue, as the name implies, causes the loop to be continued with the next iteration after skipping any statements in between. The format of the continue statement is simply. Assume that all the variables have In the problem of been declared and assigned values.

B: The value of m will be decreased by 10 from 90 to 0. So ultimately the value of m will be 0. Answer: True. Answer: False. Answer: index. Answer: run time. Answer: pointer variable. Answer: multidimensional e ……… is the process of arranging the elements of an array in order. Answer: sorting. Answer: Incorrect. Which for the following declarations are correct? Answer: This is correct. Whey is an array called a data structure? A data structure is a particular way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently.

An array is a data structure consisting of a collection of elements values or variables , each identified by at least one array index or key. An array is stored so that the position of each element can be computed from its index.

How is it created? Give a typical example of a dynamic array? Dynamic array: The process of dynamic memory allocation and the arrays created at run time are called dynamic array.

How is it created: Dynamic arrays are created using pointer variables and memory management functions Malloc , calloc and realloc. Typical example of use of a dynamic array: The concept of dynamic arrays is used in creating and manipulating data structures such as linked lists, stacks and queues.

Answer: Array size missing in the declaration. Multi-dimensional arrays may be initialized by following their declaration with a list of initial values enclosed in braces. We can initialize a three dimensional array at the time as we initialize any other variable or array. We have also initialized multidimensional array with some integer values.

For example, consider 3D array as a collection of tables, to access or store any element in a 3D array we need to know first table number then row number and lastly column number. So applying above logic, the value 25 located in table no 1 row no 1 and column no 1, hence the address is arr[1][1][1]. Answer: code. Answer: strcpy c The function strncat has three parameters.

Answer: three d To use the function atoi in a program, we must include the header file ……. Answer: gets. Ans: strlen. Answer: strstr. Answer: One, another. Answer: Puts. A whitespace is included with blanks , tabs ,carriage returns , form feeds and new lines. Explain how this feature helps in string manipulations. We know that a string is not a data types in c, but it is considered a data structure stored in array.