Assignment Operators in C Programming

There exist different assignment operators in C which are used to form assignment expressions that assign the value of an expression to an identifier. The general form of the simple assignment operator is given below: identifier = expression; Here, ‘=’,…

Operators and Description of Arithmetic Operators

Operators C is a rich language when it comes to the number of built-in operators. An operator is a symbol which gives instructions to perform any kind of operation, or action, on one or more operands. An operand is something…

Expressions and Escape Sequences in C

Expressions An expression in C programming is defined as any valid combination of different entities like constants, variables, array elements or reference to functions. It can consist of some combination of such entities that are interconnected by one or more…

The ‘float’, ‘double’ and ‘long double’ data type

The integer data types are very useful when it comes to the process of software development. However, there arises the necessity of using floating-point numbers when financially and mathematically oriented programs are to be developed. Hence, the data types like…

The ‘char’ data type in C

In C programming, the char data type comes handy for storing characters like letters and punctuation marks. However, from a technical point of view, it is an integer type, because the char type actually stores integer values, not characters. To…

Character Set, Tokens, Keywords and Identifiers in C

This is the second post in ‘Fundamentals of C Programming‘ category after ‘Introduction to C Programming‘. The topics that this post will cover are: Character Set in C Tokens in C Keywords in C Identifiers in C Character Set in…

Introduction to C Programming

C is a high-level programming language that is used in general purpose programming. It is a structured programming language that was developed at AT&T Bell Labs, USA between 1969 and 1973, by Dennis Ritchie. Interesting facts about C C was…