C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide (3rd Edition)

programs they write. If changes need to be made to the program later, the original programmer can be found to help. It’s also a ...

printf("How much of a bonus did you get? "); scanf(" %f", &a); b = .85 * a; printf("If you give 15 percent to charity, you w ...

remember from this chapter include: The three rules of programming are comment, comment, comment. Clarify your code with abunda ...

4. Your World Premiere—Putting Your Program’s Results Up on the Screen In This Chapter Using printf() Printing strings Coding e ...

the standard output to your screen unless you know enough to route the output elsewhere. Most of the time, you can ignore this s ...

Note The string You are on your way to C mastery is the controlString in this printf(). There is little control going on here—ju ...

characters \ and a actually being printed. You will see a lot of escape sequences in printf() functions. Any time you want to “m ...

Column A Column B Column C My Computer's Beep Sounds Like This:! "Let's fix that typo and then show the backslash character \" s ...

FIGURE 4.1 printf() conversion characters determine how and where numbers print. Strings and characters have their own conversio ...

The printf() controlString controls exactly how your output will appear. The only reason two spaces appear between the numbers i ...

FIGURE 4.2 Output from the second listing of Chapter 4. Notice that, because of the length of the word Quantity, the second line ...

5. Adding Variables to Your Programs In This Chapter Identifying kinds of variables Naming variables Defining variables Storing ...

TABLE 5.1 Some of the Most Common Types of C Variables Tip In some older C compilers, int could hold only values between 32767 a ...

myData pay94 age_limit amount QtlyIncome Tip C lets you begin a variable name with an underscore, but you shouldn’t do so. Some ...

You can define more than one variable of the same data type on the same line. For example, if you wanted to define two character ...

Click here to view code image price = 8.50 * .65; // Gets price after 35% discount You can even use other variables in the expre ...

+ number_of_notebooks*notebooks + lunchbox); //The information for the second child firstInitial = 'A'; middleInitial = 'J'; num ...

This chapter covered the different types of variables in C. Because there are different kinds of data, C has different variable ...

6. Adding Words to Your Programs In This Chapter Understanding the string terminator Determining the length of strings Using ch ...

Note Appendix A, “The ASCII Table,” contains an ASCII table (first mentioned in Chapter 2 , “Writing Your First C Program”). The ...