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PROGRAMMING IN C

Unit 2

Lecture-3
Unit-2 Syllabus
 Control structures: Decision statements; if and switch statement; Loop
control statements: while, for and do while loops, jump statements,
break, continue, goto statements.
 Arrays: Concepts, One dimensional array, declaration and initialization
of one dimensional arrays, two dimensional arrays, initialization and
accessing, multi dimensional arrays.
 Functions: User defined and built-in Functions, storage classes,
Parameter passing in functions, call by value, Passing arrays to functions:
idea of call by reference, Recursion.
 Strings: Arrays of characters, variable length character strings, inputting
character strings, character library functions, string handling functions.
In this Lecture

User defined and built-in Functions


Parameter passing in functions
Call by value , Call by reference
Passing arrays to functions
Functions

Derived Data type


Enclosed with {}
Perform Specific Task
Provides Code reusibility
Understanding Function in C

Declaration
Defination
Calling
Declaration
of Function

return_type
name_of_the_function
(parameter_1,
parameter_2);
Defining a
Function
 return_type function_name
(para1_type para1_name,
para2_type para2_name)
{
 // body of the function
}
Calling a
Function
Write a program to give sum
of two numbers using
function
Built-in Vs User Defined Functions

Built-in Function User-Defined Function


 Also known as Library Function
 Already existed in the compiler  Created by the user
package
 Any name can be given by the user
 Has a fixed pre-defined name
 Must be declared and defined
 Directly useable without being before being used
defined
 E.g) pow(), sqrt(), strcmp(), strcpy()
etc.
Actual and
Formal
Parameters
Call By Value

Output
Call By Reference

Output
Call By Value VS Call By Reference

Call By Value Call By Reference


 There are two copies of  Both the actual and formal
parameters stored in different parameters refer to the same
memory locations.One is the locations.
original copy and the other is  Any changes made inside the
the function copy.
function are actually reflected
 Any changes made inside in the actual parameters of the
functions are not reflected in caller.
the actual parameters of the
caller.
Passing
Arrays to
Function
Write a program to get the
sum of all the elements of
an array using function
Sum of all
elements of
an Array
Write a program to
get the maximum
Self Practice number from the
array using Function
Self Practice
Thank You

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