On all Arduino boards, short stores a 2 bytes value, ranging from , to 32, For all the above data types, we can prepend unsigned to start the range at 0, instead of a negative number. This might make sense in many cases. Given all those limits, a question might come up: how can we make sure our numbers do not exceed the limit?
And what happens if we do exceed the limit? If you have an unsigned int number at , and you increment it, you'll get in return. As expected. If you have an unsigned char number at , and you increment it, you'll get 0 in return.
It resets starting from the initial possible value. If you have a unsigned char number at and you add 10 to it, you'll get the number 9 :. If you don't have a signed value, the behavior is undefined. It will basically give you a huge number which can vary, like in this case:.
In other words, C does not protect you from going over the limits of a type. You need to take care of this yourself. When you declare the variable and initialize it with the wrong value, the gcc compiler the one you're probably using should warn you:. Floating point types can represent a much larger set of values than integers can, and can also represent fractions, something that integers can't do.
All can represent both positive and negative numbers. On a modern Mac, a float is represented in 32 bits, and has a precision of 24 significant bits. A double number is represented in 64 bits, with a precision of 53 significant bits.
The type long double is represented in 80 bits, has a precision of 64 significant bits. On your specific computer, how can you determine the specific size of the types? You can write a program to do that:. A constant is declared similarly to variables, except it is prepended with the const keyword, and you always need to specify a value. It's just a convention, but one that can greatly help you while reading or writing a C program as it improves readability.
Uppercase name means constant, lowercase name means variable. A constant name follows the same rules for variable names: can contain any uppercase or lowercase letter, can contain digits and the underscore character, but it can't start with a digit. In this section I'm going to detail all of them, using 2 imaginary variables a and b as examples.
I am keeping bitwise operators, structure operators and pointer operators out of this list, to keep things simpler. Those operators are useful to perform an assignment and at the same time perform an arithmetic operation:.
If a is evaluated to true , then the b statement is executed, otherwise c is. The sizeof operator returns the size of the operand you pass. You can pass a variable, or even a type. With all those operators and more, which I haven't covered in this post, including bitwise, structure operators, and pointer operators , we must pay attention when using them together in a single expression.
What's the value of c? Do we get the addition being executed before the multiplication and the division? Operators also have an associativity rule, which is always left to right except for the unary operators and the assignment.
The value of c is 3. In all cases, however, I want to make sure you realize you can use parentheses to make any similar expression easier to read and comprehend. The first is the if statement, with its else helper, and the second is the switch statement. In an if statement, you can check for a condition to be true, and then execute the block provided in the curly brackets:.
You can append an else block to execute a different block if the original condition turns out to be false:. If you don't, the if conditional check will always be true, unless the argument is 0 , for example if you do:.
Why does this happen? Because the conditional check will look for a boolean result the result of a comparison , and the 0 number always equates to a false value. Everything else is true, including negative numbers. You can have multiple else blocks by stacking together multiple if statements:.
You can provide a variable as condition, and a series of case entry points for each value you expect:. We need a break keyword at the end of each case to avoid the next case being executed when the one before ends. This "cascade" effect can be useful in some creative ways. C offers us three ways to perform a loop: for loops , while loops and do while loops.
They all allow you to iterate over arrays, but with a few differences. Let's see them in detail. Using the for keyword we can define the rules of the loop up front, and then provide the block that is going to be executed repeatedly. We first define a loop variable, in this case named i. It's just a convention. The variable is initialized at the 0 value, and the first iteration is done.
Inside the loop main block we can access the variable i to know at which iteration we are. While loops is simpler to write than a for loop, because it requires a bit more work on your part. Instead of defining all the loop data up front when you start the loop, like you do in the for loop, using while you just check for a condition:. And this loop will be an infinite loop unless you increment the i variable at some point inside the loop. An infinite loop is bad because it will block the program, allowing nothing else to happen.
There's one exception to this, and we'll see it in one minute. Before, let me introduce do while. While loops are great, but there might be times when you need to do one particular thing: you want to always execute a block, and then maybe repeat it. This is done using the do while keyword. In a way it's very similar to a while loop, but slightly different:.
In all the C loops we have a way to break out of a loop at any point in time, immediately, regardless of the conditions set for the loop. Having this option to break out of a loop is particularly interesting for while loops and do while too , because we can create seemingly infinite loops that end when a condition occurs.
You define this inside the loop block:. Every value in the array, in C, must have the same type. This means you will have arrays of int values, arrays of double values, and more. You must always specify the size of the array. C does not provide dynamic arrays out of the box you have to use a data structure like a linked list for that.
And you can reference an item in the array by using square brackets after the array variable name, adding an integer to determine the index value. Like this:.
Array indexes start from 0, so an array with 5 items, like the prices array above, will have items ranging from prices[0] to prices[4]. The interesting thing about C arrays is that all elements of an array are stored sequentially, one right after another. Not something that normally happens with higher-level programming languages. Another interesting thing is this: the variable name of the array, prices in the above example, is a pointer to the first element of the array.
As such it can be used like a normal pointer. I introduced the char type when I introduced types, but in short it is commonly used to store letters of the ASCII chart. Or more conveniently with a string literal also called string constant , a sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes:.
Do you notice how "Flavio" is 6 chars long, but I defined an array of length 7? This is because the last character in a string must be a 0 value, the string terminator, and we must make space for it. Speaking of manipulating strings, there's one important standard library that is provided by C: string.
This library is essential because it abstracts many of the low level details of working with strings, and provides us with a set of useful functions. Get matched to a bootcamp today. The average bootcamp grad spent less than six months in career transition, from starting a bootcamp to finding their first job. Variables that were visible in C can now be hidden inside a class that only certain functions can access.
While both languages are statically typed, C only has support for primitive predefined data types. C includes none of these features. One of the main benefits of C is its direct control over memory and hardware. Therefore, one benefit to learning C would be learning the hard way to do things, but having more control over what you do later.
C is a procedural language designed with a top-down approach in mind. This allows developers to design the top-level elements and structures before moving on to the smaller inner workings. This is an easy to comprehend structure and results in organized programs. Like most object-oriented languages, a designer typically designs multifunctional modules intended for use when designing the main function of the program.
Neither of these approaches is better than the other. They really come down to preference, and skilled programmers can use either to create a useful and functional program. That said, bottom-up is usually better for teams and top-down for individuals. After learning driving, the person applied for a driving license for which he need to pass a driving test. The driving test is now on a manual car with no auto-gear change feature. The person was even not able to answer some basic questions related to gears as he was not even aware of it and eventually ended up getting disqualified.
Skip to content. Change Language. Related Articles. Table of Contents. To get a job: learn Python, Java or C - those languages feature top of the "number of job vacancies listed" consistently and have done for years I'm leaving javascript out of that list for reasons I'll mention in a moment.
Do you want to get a job in a particular field, say data science: learn a language that's key to that field - data scientists use Python or R, or Scala maybe if they are using Spark, they don't tend to use Swift or PHP. If you want a high paying job and you're already an established developer? Then maybe look at Go or Kotlin - there are far fewer jobs advertised, but also far fewer developers with those skills so developers are in high demand and can get better salaries.
Javascript often tops off a lot of lists, but that is because it is used as an adjunct to lots of other technologies - in particular web development. It's not so much used as a standalone language. It would be a mistake to just learn javcascript because in the web development world, javascript knowledge alone is pretty useless without knowledge of the tech that it works with - CSS, HTML, Angular, Express, React etc Not meaning to be rude.
But your two first points on JavaScript's cons don't even make sense. I don't know what you mean by a "copy" method but if you mean cloning an object, there are certainly ways to do it. Also, not being able to do multiple inheritance is certainly not a drawback. Then again, I'm pretty sure you can find workarounds, due to JS's flexibility, which is both a strength and a weakness. Overall it feels like you stuffed loads of things you read here and there about this and that language, without even verifying if they really made sense.
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