Questions and Answers on Programming in C

C is a general purpose programming language. It’s called as structured language also. Here are some short questions and their answers on C programming are given bellow.

Question No. – 1: Who invented the Programming in C?

Ans: Dennis Ritchie of AT & T Bell Laboratory.

Question No. – 2: When he invented Programming in C?

Ans: In the year 1972

Question No. – 3: Write down some Library Function’s name of C.

Ans: getchar(), scanf(), gets(), fscanf(), printf()

Question No. – 4: Write down some C complier’s name.

Ans: Turbo C, Borland C, Microsoft C, Power C, Watcom C

Question No. – 5: How many kinds of Programming Language?

Ans: Generally programming language is of two kinds.

a.       High Level Language

b.      Low Level Language

Low Level Language has two kinds more

a.       Machine Language

b.      Assembly Language

Question No. – 6: What is the basic format of a C program?

Ans:     >> Include Files

            >> Main Function

            >> Other Function (Library/User defined functions)

Question No. – 7: How many kinds of data type?

Ans: There are 4 kinds of data type in C.

1.      Character Type Data

2.      Integer Type Data

3.      Floating Point Data

4.      Double Type Data

Question No. – 8: What is the memory space for Character Type Data?

Ans: 1 byte

Question No. – 9: What is the memory space for Integer Type Data?

Ans: 2 bytes

Question No. – 10: What are the memory spaces for Float Point and Double Type Data?

Ans: 4 bytes (float) and 8 bytes (double).

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