Data Types — Study Resources & PYQs
Data types available in C programming.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- C Basics section - GeeksforGeeks tutorial (Article) — Use the Basics section of this tutorial for data types, with a runnable example for each type.
- C Operators and Precedence - Programiz (Article) — Covers the basic C data types alongside variables and constants.
- Data Types in C (GeeksforGeeks) (Article) — Covers all C data types (int, float, char, double, etc.), their sizes/ranges, and how constants and variables are declared and initialized.
- Data Types (Article) — Useful study resource that explains key concepts, applications, and examples of Data Types in an easy-to-understand manner.
- What is a Flowchart and its Types - GeeksforGeeks (Article) — Explains each symbol shape and what it means: oval for start and end, parallelogram for input and output, rectangle for processing, rhombus for decisions. Memorise this shape-to-meaning mapping.
- NPTEL — Programming and Data Structures, IIT Madras (Article) — Current NPTEL course covering C programming constructs, arrays, pointers, functions, recursion, searching and sorting.
Data Types previous year questions
- (a) Discuss the various data types used in C. Also elaborate the range and memory size of each with its format specifiers. (b) Write a program to check whether…
- 1. (a) What are different basic data types in C? How these are extended? Explain memory requirements and range of values that can be stored in these data types.
- Explain the different data types in Python with examples. How do mutable and immutable types differ?
Taught in these subjects
- COMPUTER PROGRAMMING — BCST11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMMING USING C — BCST21 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Computer Programming — BCST11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Computer Programming — CST3101 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Fundamentals of Programming Using C — CST3201 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- COMPUTER PROGRAMMING — CST3101 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMMING USING C — CST3201 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- COMPUTER PROGRAMMING — CST3101 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Fundamentals of Machine Learning — CST3404 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu