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LECTURE NOTE
on
PROGRAMMING IN “C”
COURSE CODE: MCA 101
By
Asst. Professor Mrs Etuari Oram Asst. Prof. Mr Bighnaraj Naik
SYLLABUS
Module –I
C Language Fundamentals. Character set, Identifiers, keyword, data types, Constants and variables, statements, expression, operators, precedence of operators, Input-output, Assignments, control structures decision making and branching.
Module -II
Arrays, Functions and Strings: Declaration, manipulation and String – handling
functions, monolithic vs. Modular programs, user defined vs. standard functions, formal vs. actual arguments, function – category, function prototypes, parameter passing, recursion, and storage classes: auto, extern, global, static.
Module –III
Pointers, Structures, Unions, File handling:
Pointer variable and its importance, pointer arithmetic, passing parameters, Declaration of structures, pointer to pointer, pointer to structure, pointer to function, union, dynamic memory allocation, file managements. CONTENTS Module: 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to C Lecture 2: Structure of C, compilation, execution Lecture 3:character set, identifiers, keywords Lecture 4: constants, variables Lecture 5: expression, operators Lecture 6: operators continue… Lecture 7: loops: do while, while Lecture 8: for loop, break, continue statement Lecture 9: control Statements Lecture 10: nesting of if else…, if else ladder Lecture 11: arrays Lecture 12: 2-diamensional array Module: 2 Lecture 13: String library functions Lecture 14: functions, categories Lecture 15: functions categories cont..
Introduction to C C is a programming language developed at AT & T’s Bell Laboratories of USA in
- It was designed and written by a man named Dennis Ritchie. In the late seventies C began to replace the more familiar languages of that time like PL/I, ALGOL, etc ANSI C standard emerged in the early 1980s, this book was split into two titles: The original was still called Programming in C , and the title that covered ANSI C was called Programming in ANSI C. This was done because it took several years for the compiler vendors to release their ANSI C compilers and for them to become ubiquitous. It was initially designed for programming UNIX operating system. Now the software tool as well as the C compiler is written in C. Major parts of popular operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux is still written in C. This is because even today when it comes to performance (speed of execution) nothing beats C. Moreover, if one is to extend the operating system to work with new devices one needs to write device driver programs. These programs are exclusively written in C. C seems so popular is because it is reliable , simple and easy to use. often heard today is – “C has been already superceded by languages like C++, C# and Java. Program There is a close analogy between learning English language and learning C language. The classical method of learning English is to first learn the alphabets used in the language, then learn to combine these alphabets to form words, which in turn are combined to form sentences and sentences are combined to form paragraphs. Learning C is similar and easier. Instead of straight-away learning how to write programs, we must first know what alphabets, numbers and special symbols are used in C, then how using them constants, variables and keywords are constructed, and finally how are these combined to form an instruction. A group of instructions would be combined later on to form a program. So
a computer program is just a collection of the instructions necessary to solve a specific problem. The basic operations of a computer system form what is known as the computer’s instruction set. And the approach or method that is used to solve the problem is known as an algorithm. So for as programming language concern these are of two types.
- Low level language
- High level language Low level language: Low level languages are machine level and assembly level language. In machine level language computer only understand digital numbers i.e. in the form of 0 and 1. So, instruction given to the computer is in the form binary digit, which is difficult to implement instruction in binary code. This type of program is not portable, difficult to maintain and also error prone. The assembly language is on other hand modified version of machine level language. Where instructions are given in English like word as ADD, SUM, MOV etc. It is easy to write and understand but not understand by the machine. So the translator used here is assembler to translate into machine level. Although language is bit easier, programmer has to know low level details related to low level language. In the
Lecture Note: 2
Structure of C Language program 1 ) Comment line
- Preprocessor directive 3 ) Global variable declaration
- main function( ) { Local variables; Statements; } User defined function } } Comment line It indicates the purpose of the program. It is represented as /……………………………../ Comment line is used for increasing the readability of the program. It is useful in explaining the program and generally used for documentation. It is enclosed within the decimeters. Comment line can be single or multiple line but should not be nested. It can be anywhere in the program except inside string constant & character constant. Preprocessor Directive:
#include<stdio.h> tells the compiler to include information about the standard input/output library. It is also used in symbolic constant such as #define PI 3.14(value). The stdio.h (standard input output header file) contains definition &declaration of system defined function such as printf( ), scanf( ), pow( ) etc. Generally printf() function used to display and scanf() function used to read value Global Declaration: This is the section where variable are declared globally so that it can be access by all the functions used in the program. And it is generally declared outside the function : main() It is the user defined function and every function has one main() function from where actually program is started and it is encloses within the pair of curly braces. The main( ) function can be anywhere in the program but in general practice it is placed in the first position. Syntax : main() { …….. …….. …….. } The main( ) function return value when it declared by data type as int main( ) { return 0
on a particular computer system. Figure below shows the steps that are involved in entering, compiling, and executing a computer program developed in the C programming language and the typical Unix commands that would be entered from the command line. Step 1: The program that is to be compiled is first typed into a file on the computer system. There are various conventions that are used for naming files, typically be any name provided the last two characters are “.c” or file with extension .c. So, the file name prog1.c might be a valid filename for a C program. A text editor is usually used to enter the C program into a file. For example, vi is a popular text editor used on Unix systems. The program that is entered into the file is known as the source program because it represents the original form of the program expressed in the C language. Step 2: After the source program has been entered into a file, then proceed to have it compiled. The compilation process is initiated by typing a special command on the system. When this command is entered, the name of the file that contains the source program must also be specified. For example, under Unix, the command to initiate program compilation is called cc. If we are using the popular GNU C compiler, the command we use is gcc. Typing the line gcc prog1.c or cc prog1.c In the first step of the compilation process, the compiler examines each program statement contained in the source program and checks it to ensure that it conforms to the syntax and semantics of the language. If any mistakes are discovered by the compiler during this phase, they are reported to the user and the compilation process ends right there. The errors then have to be corrected in the source program (with the use of an editor), and the compilation process must be restarted. Typical errors reported during this phase of compilation might be due to an expression that has unbalanced parentheses ( syntactic error ), or due to the use of a variable that is not “defined” ( semantic error ).
Step 3: When all the syntactic and semantic errors have been removed from the program, the compiler then proceeds to take each statement of the program and translate it into a “lower” form that is equivalent to assembly language program needed to perform the identical task. Step 4: After the program has been translated the next step in the compilation process is to translate the assembly language statements into actual machine instructions. The assembler takes each assembly language statement and converts it into a binary format known as object code , which is then written into another file on the system. This file has the same name as the source file under Unix, with the last letter an “ o ” ( for object ) instead of a “ c ”. Step 5: After the program has been translated into object code, it is ready to be linked. This process is once again performed automatically whenever the cc or gcc command is issued under Unix. The purpose of the linking phase is to get the program into a final form for execution on the computer. If the program uses other programs that were previously processed by the compiler, then during this phase the programs are linked together. Programs that are used from the system’s program library are also searched and linked together with the object program during this phase. The process of compiling and linking a program is often called building****. The final linked file, which is in an executable object code format, is stored in another file on the system, ready to be run or executed****. Under Unix, this file is called a.out by default. Under Windows, the executable file usually has the same name as the source file, with the c extension replaced by an exe extension. Step 6: To subsequently execute the program, the command a.out has the effect of loading the program called a.out into the computer’s memory and initiating its execution. When the program is executed, each of the statements of the program is sequentially executed in turn. If the program requests any data from the user,
likely be necessary to make changes to original source program.
/* Simple program to add two numbers…………………….*/
The alphabets, numbers and special symbols when properly combined form constants, variables and keywords. Identifiers Identifiers are user defined word used to name of entities like variables, arrays, functions, structures etc. Rules for naming identifiers are: 1) name should only consists of alphabets (both upper and lower case), digits and underscore (_) sign. 2) first characters should be alphabet or underscore 3) name should not be a keyword 4) since C is a case sensitive, the upper case and lower case considered differently, for example code, Code, CODE etc. are different identifiers. 5) identifiers are generally given in some meaningful name such as value, net_salary, age, data etc. An identifier name may be long, some implementation recognizes only first eight characters, most recognize 31 characters. ANSI standard compiler recognize 31 characters. Some invalid identifiers are 5cb, int, res#, avg no etc.
Keyword There are certain words reserved for doing specific task, these words are known as reserved word or keywords. These words are predefined and always written in lower case or small letter. These keywords cann’t be used as a variable name as it assigned with fixed meaning. Some examples are int, short, signed, unsigned, default, volatile, float, long, double, break, continue, typedef, static, do, for, union, return, while, do, extern, register, enum, case, goto, struct, char, auto, const etc. data types Data types refer to an extensive system used for declaring variables or functions of different types before its use. The type of a variable determines how much space it occupies in storage and how the bit pattern stored is interpreted. The value of a variable can be changed any time. C has the following 4 types of data types basic built-in data types : int, float, double, char Enumeration data type: enum Derived data type : pointer, array, structure, union Void data type : void A variable declared to be of type int can be used to contain integral values only—that is, values that do not contain decimal places. A variable declared to be of type float can be used for storing floating- point numbers (values containing decimal places). The double type is the same as type float, only with roughly twice the precision. The char data type can be used to store a single character, such as the letter a , the digit character 6 , or a semicolon similarly A variable declared char can only store character type value. There are two types of type qualifier in c
These constants are further categorized as Numeric constant Character constant String constant Numeric constant : Numeric constant consists of digits. It required minimum size of 2 bytes and max 4 bytes. It may be positive or negative but by default sign is always positive. No comma or space is allowed within the numeric constant and it must have at least 1 digit. The allowable range for integer constants is -32768 to
- Truly speaking the range of an Integer constant depends upon the compiler. For a 16-bit compiler like Turbo C or Turbo C++ the range is –32768 to 32767. For a 32-bit compiler the range would be even greater. Mean by a 16-bit or a 32bit compiler, what range of an Integer constant has to do with the type of compiler. It is categorized a integer constant and real constant. An integer constants are whole number which have no decimal point. Types of integer constants are: Decimal constant: 0-------9(base 10) Octal constant: 0-------7(base 8) Hexa decimal constant: 0----9, A------F(base 16)
In decimal constant first digit should not be zero unlike octal constant first digit must be zero(as 076, 0127) and in hexadecimal constant first two digit should be 0x/ 0X (such as 0x24, 0x87A). By default type of integer constant is integer but if the value of integer constant is exceeds range then value represented by integer type is taken to be unsigned integer or long integer. It can also be explicitly mention integer and unsigned integer type by suffix l/L and u/U. Real constant is also called floating point constant. To construct real constant we must follow the rule of , -real constant must have at least one digit. -It must have a decimal point. -It could be either positive or negative. -Default sign is positive. -No commas or blanks are allowed within a real constant. Ex.: +325.34 426. -32. To express small/large real constant exponent(scientific) form is used where number is written in mantissa and exponent form separated by e/E. Exponent can be positive or negative integer but mantissa can be real/integer type, for example 3.6*10^5 =3.6e+5. By default type of floating point constant is double, it can also be explicitly defined it by suffix of f/F. Character constant Character constant represented as a single character enclosed within a single quote. These can be single digit, single special symbol or white spaces such as ‘9’,’c’,’$’, ‘ ’ etc. Every character constant has a unique integer like value in machine’s character code as if machine using ASCII (American standard code for information interchange). Some numeric value associated with each upper and lower case alphabets and decimal integers are as: A------------ Z ASCII value (65-90) a-------------z ASCII value (97-122) 0-------------9 ASCII value (48-59) ; ASCII value (59)
