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Chapter 3 Fundamentals of the C Programming Language

Chapter 3 Fundamentals of the C Programming Language. 3.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter serves as a formal introduction to the C programming language. The fundamental elements of the C language.

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Chapter 3 Fundamentals of the C Programming Language

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  1. Chapter 3Fundamentals of theC Programming Language

  2. 3.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter serves as a formal introduction to the C programming language. The fundamental elements of the C language. Algorithms requires as least five statement types; input, output, arithmetic calculations, selection, and repetition.

  3. 3.2 EXAMPLE PROGRAM 1: A C Program that Computes City Tax Requirements Specification Develop a program that does the following 1. Prints on the monitor screen a brief description of the program’s purpose. 2. Prompts the user to enter a value for gross annual income using the terminal keyboard. 3. Reads a value for gross income. 4. Computes the city income tax for the city of Oxford, Ohio. The city income tax is 1.75 percent of the gross annual income. 5. Prints the computed city income tax.

  4. Analysis Input. Gross annual income in dollars. Output. The computed city income tax in dollars. Formulas. The city income tax is computed using the formula. income_tax = 0.0175 * gross_income

  5. Design print “A PROGRAM THAT COMPUTES CITY INCOME TAX” print “Enter gross income:” read gross_income compute city_tax = 0.0175 * gross_income print city_tax

  6. Implementation A PROGRAM THAT COMPUTES CITY INCOME TAX Enter gross income : 18657 City tax is 326.497500 dollars. The five lines that we have just explained are examples of C statements. Notice that they all terminate with a semicolon.

  7. 3.3 LANGUAGE CHARACTER SET AND TOKENS types of tokens 1. Reserved words (keywords) 2. Identifiers 3. Constants 4. String literals 5. Punctuators 6. Operators

  8. 1. Reserved words : Identify language entities, they have special meanings to the compiler. C reserved words must be typed fully in lowercase. Some examples of reserved words from the program are const, double, int, and return.

  9. 2. Identifiers programmer-defined words. Needed for program variables, functions, and other program constructs. gross_income and city_tax are examples. Must be unique within the same scope 1. A to Z , a to z , 0 to 9 , and the underscore “_” 2. The first character must be a letter or an underscore. 3. Only the first 32 characters as significant. 4. There can be no embedded blanks. 5. Reserved words cannot be used as identifiers. 6. Identifiers are case sensitive.

  10. 3. Constants fixed values CITY_TAX_RATE = 0.0175 is an example of a constant. Integer Constants commas are not allowed in integer constants. Floating-Point Constants either in conventional or scientific notation. For example, 20.35; 0.2035E+2 Character Constants and Escape Sequences a character enclosed in single quotation marks. Precede the single quotation mark by a backslash, printf(“%c”, ‘\”); Escape sequence causes a new line during printing. \n

  11. 4. String Literals characters surrounded by double quotation marks. format specifier for output converts the internal representation of data to readable characters.( %f ) for example, City tax is 450.000000 dollars. precede it with a backslash as “Jim \”Mac\” MacDonald” backslash character can be used as a continuation character printf(THIS PROGRAM COMPUTES \ CITY INCOME TAX”);

  12. 5. Punctuators [ ] ( ) { } , ; : ………* # 6. Operators result in some kind of computation or action city_tax = CITY_TAX_TATE * gross_income ; operators act on operands.

  13. 3.4 THE STRUCTURE OF A C PROGRAM C program consists of following components: 1. Program comments 2. Preprocessor directives 3. Type declarations 4. Named constants 5. Statements 6. Function declarations (prototypes) 7. Function definitions 8. Function calls

  14. 1. Program Comments use /* and */ to surround comments, or // to begin comment lines. 2. Preprocessor Directives Lines that begin with a pound sign, #, A preprocessor directive is can instruction to the preprocessor. Named file inclusion is concerned with adding the content of a header file to a source program file. Standard header files. For example, #include <stdio.h> #include causes a headerfile to be copied into the code. programmer-defined header file surrounded by double quotation marks. #include <d:header1.h> to advantage in partitioning large programs into several files.

  15. 3. Data Types and Type Declarations double gross_income; double city_tax; variable’s type determines 1. How it is stored internally 2. What operations can be applied to it 3. How such operations are interpreted

  16. declare a variable to be of type integer, the compiler allocates a memory location for that variable. The size of this memory location depends on the type of the compiler. int is 2 bytes the range –32768 through 32768 designed to perform arithmetic operations and assignment operations. Two classes of data types: 1. Fundamental data types 2. Programmer-defined data types to classes of built-in data types: 1. Fundamental data types 2. Derived data types Examples of derived data types are arrays, strings, and structures.

  17. Data Type int Data Type char Data Type double Data initialization be initialized in two ways, 1. Compile-time initialization 2. Run-time initialization Strings as a Derived Data Type A string is a sequence of characters that is treated as a single data item. A string variable is a variable that stores a string constant.

  18. how to declare string variables. 1. Begin the declaration with the keyword char, Char report_header [41] 2. To initialize a string variable at complie time, char report_header [41] = “Annual Report”

  19. 4. Named Constants const double CITY_TAX_RATE = 0.0175; is an identifier whose value is fixed and does not change during the execution of a program in which it appears. In C the declaration of a named constant begins with the keyword const. During execution, the processor replaces every occurrence of the named constant .

  20. 5. Statements A statement is a specification of an action to be taken by the computer as the program executes. Compound Statements is a list of statements enclosed in braces, { }

  21. 3.5 A FIRST LOOK AT FUNCTIONS as a block of code that performs a specific task. The function main( ) int main(void) { Statement; Statement; …… …… return 0; }

  22. return statement ensures that the constant value 0, the program status code, is returned to the program or the operating system that has triggered the execution of this function main. Each C program must have one main function. The type specifier for functions can be int, double, char, void, and so on, depending on the type of data that it returns.

  23. 3.6 BUILDING A MINIMUM LANGUAGE SUBSET An expression is a syntactically correct and meaningful combination of operators and operands. city_tax = CITY_TAX_RATE * gross_income An expression statement is any expression followed by a semicolon. city_tax = CITY_TAX_RATE * gross_income

  24. Example 3.2 area ? short_side 10.05 long_side 20.00 area = short_side * long_side area 210.00 short_side 10.05 long_side 20.00

  25. The Standard Output Function printf This statement is a function call to the standard library function printf. The parentheses ( ) are known as the function call operator. Following compilation, the linker fetches the object code corresponding to printf from the standard C library and combines it with your object program.

  26. Quantity Type printf Format Specifier int %d double %f or % lf char %c printf(“Your year of birth is %d, and in 2000 you will be %d years old.” , year_of_birth, 2000 – year_of_birth);

  27. Variable Type scanf Format Specifier int %d double %lf char %c printf(“Type your weight in pounds: “); scanf(“%d” , &weight_in_pounds);

  28. Input of String Variables char string1 [31]; scanf(“%s” , string1); The reason is that scanf skips whitespace during string input and picks string values delimited by whitespace. the input string values that contain whitespace, we can use several techniques in C. We will explain one easy way, which requires the use of the gets function.

  29. 3.7 PREPARING C SOURCE PROGRAM FILES Here are some style conventions 1. Insert blank lines between consecutive program sections. 2. Make liberal use of clear and help comments. 3. Keep your comments separate from the program statements. 4. Type each statement or declaration on a single line.

  30. 5. Avoid running a statement over multiple lines. 6. Avoid line splicing. 7. Indent all lines that form a compound statement by the same amount. 8. Type the beginning and end braces, { }, for compound statements 9. Use whitespace in typing statements. 10. Conclude each function by a comment to mark its end.

  31. 3.8 EXAMPLE PROGRAM 2 : A C Program that Converts Height and Weight to Metric Units Enter your first name : Kelly Enter your last name : Johnson Enter your height in “inches” : 64 Enter your weight in “pounds” : 110 Kelly Johnson, your height is 162.560000 centimeters, and your weight is 49.894900 kilograms.

  32. 3.9 PROGRAM DEBUGGING 1 #include <stdio.h> 2 3 int main (void) { • double number; 5 • printf(“Enter a number : “) 7 scanf(“%lf” , &number); 8 Inverse = 1.0 / number ; 9 printf(“Inverse of %f is %f” , number, inverse);

  33. ---Configuration : debug – Win32 Debug --- Compiling … Debug.c D:\cprogs\debug.c(7) : error C2146: cyntax error : missing ‘;’ before identifier ‘scanf’ D:\cprogs\debug.c(8) : error C2065 ‘inverse’ : undeclared identifier. D:\cprogs\debug.c(8) : warning C4244 : ‘=‘ : conversion from ‘const double ‘ to ‘ int ‘ , possible loss of data. D:\cprogs\debug.c(10) : fatal error C1004 : unexpected end of file found Error executing c1.exe Debug.exe – 3 error(s), 1 warning(s)

  34. Debugging for Warning Diagnostics do not force it to stop the compilation. Debugging Run-Time Errors Enter a number : 0 Floating point error : Divide by 0 . Abnormal program termination .

  35. if number is equal to zero print “Zero does not have a finite inverse.” else compute inverse = 1 / number end_if

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