C-and-C++/C2/Increment-And-Decrement-Operators/English

Title of script: Increment and Decrement Operators in C and C++

Author: Ritwik Joshi

Keywords: Increment and Decrement Operators, Type casting, Video Tutorial

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide1	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Increment and Decrement Operators in C and C++.
Slide 2	In this tutorial, we will learn about: Increment and decrement operators ++ eg. a++ which is postfix increment operator. ++a which is prefix increment operator. - - eg. a- - which is postfix decrement operator. - -a which is prefix decrement operator.We will also learn about Type casting.
Slide 3	To record this tutorial, I am using: Ubuntu 11.10 as the operating system and gcc and g++ Compiler version 4.6.1 in Ubuntu.
Slide 4	The ++ operator increases the existing value of the operand by one. a++ and ++a are equivalent to a = a + 1. The -- operator decreases the existing value of the operand by one. a-- and --a are equivalent to a = a - 1.
Switch to the file incrdecr.c in gedit	I will now demonstrate the use of increment and decrement operators with the help of a C program. I have already made the program, so I'll explain the code. Here, we have the code for increment and decrement operators in C.
Highlight int a=1;	Here, I have taken an integer variable a that holds the value 1. This way we will be able to observe the changes in the value of a. It will thus give us a better idea about the working of the operators.
Highlight printf("a's value is %d\n", a++);	Let's see how the postfix increment operator works. The output of this printf statement is 1. The value won't change. This is because the postfix operation occurs after the operand is evaluated. If an operation is performed on a++, it is performed on the current value of a. After that the value of a is incremented.
printf("a's value is %d\n", a);	Now if we see the value of a here, it has been incremented by 1.
Highlight a = 1;	We again initialize a to 1 so as to reflect on the changes.
Highlight printf(“a's value is now %d\n”, ++a);	We now come to the prefix increment operators This printf statement prints 2 on the screen. This is because a prefix operation occurs before the operand is evaluated. So the value of a is first incremented by 1 and then it is printed. We again print a's value to see that there are no further changes.
/* */	Now lets check by executing this code. I will comment out the following lines. Type /* */
Click on Save	Click on Save. I have saved my file as incrdecr.c
press Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously.	Open the terminal window by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously.
Type gcc incrdecr.c -o incr Type ./incr	To compile, type the following on the terminal gcc space incrdecr.c space -o space incr To execute the code, type ./incr
Highlight Output	The output is displayed on the screen, This is the output when you print a++ a's value is now 1 a's value is now 2 This is the output when you print ++a. We can see that the result is as discussed before. a's value is 2 a's value is now 2
y/*	Coming back to the rest of the code. I will now explain the postfix increment and decrement operators. We will now remove the comment from here. I'll put the comment here.
Highlight a=1	We now again assign the value of 1 to a.
Highlight printf("a's value is %d\n”, a--);	This printf statement outputs the value of 1 as explained previously. A's value will be decremented after a-- is evaluated as its a postfix expression.
Highlight printf("a's value is now %d\n”, a);	The next statement prints a's value as o. A's value is now decemented by 1.
Highlight printf("a's value is now %d\n”, --a);	We now have the prefix decrement operator. Output of this printf statement will be 0. As it is a prefix operation. The prefix operation occurs before the operand is evaluated.
	This printf statements output is 0. No further changes are being made to a's value.
	Type return 0; And close the ending curly bracket
	Click on Save. Switch back to the terminal. To compile type the following on the terminal; gcc incrdecr.c -o incr To execute type, ./incr
Highlight a's value is 1 a's value is now 0	Here the output is displayed as: a's value is 1 a's value is now 2 a's value is now 2 a's value is now 2 This is the output when you print a-- a's value is now 1 a's value is now 0 This is the output when you print --a a's value is now 0 a's value is now 0 So, now we see how the postfix decrement operator works.
	If we want to write the same program in C++. I can make a few changes to the above C code.
	Let me go back to the editor.
//Increment and Decrement Operators #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int a=1; cout <<"a's value is " <<a++ <<"\n"; cout <<"a's value is now " <<a <<"\n"; a=1; cout <<"a's value is now " <<++a <<"\n"; cout <<"a's value is now " <<a <<"\n"; a=1; cout <<"a's value is now " <<a-- <<"\n"; cout <<"a's value is now " <<a <<"\n"; a=1; return 0; }	Here is a C++ file with the necessary code.
Highlight #include<iostream> using namespace std; cout	Notice that the header is different from the C file header. We have the using namespace statement here. Also, note that the output statement in C++ is cout. So, apart from these differences, the two codes are very similar.
	Save the file. The file is saved with an extension .cpp
Type g++ incrdecr.cpp -o incr ./ incr	Let's compile the code. Open the terminal and type g++ incrdecr.cpp -o incr Let's execute this code and see what results we get. Type ./ incr
Output:	The output is displayed on the screen: a's value is 1 a's value is now 2 a's value is now 2 a's value is now 2 a's value is now 1 a's value is now 0 a's value is now 0 a's value is now 0 So, we see the output is identical to the C program.
	We now have the concept of typecasting. It is implemented the same way in both C and C++. Typecasting is a used to make a variable of one type, act like another type.
Slide 5 Highlight (float) Highlight (int) a	Typecasting is done by enclosing the data type you want within parenthesis. This cast is put in front of the variable you want to cast. This typecast is valid for one single operation only. Now a will behave as a float variable for a single operation.
Open incrdecr.c	Here is an example I have already created. I shall now explain the code.
Highlight int a,b; float c;	We first declare the variables a and b as integer and c as float.
Highlight a=5; b=2;	a is assigned the value 5. b is assigned the value 2. We will perform operations on a and b.
Highlight c=a/b;	We divide a by b. The result of division is stored in c.
Highlight printf(“Value of c is %.2f\n”, c);	We have used %.2f to denote a precision of 2 decimal places. The result displayed will be 2.00 against the expected result of 2.50. The fractional part has been truncated as both the operands a and b are integers. To perform real division one of the operands will have to be type cast to float.
Highlight c=(float)a/b;	Here we are typecasting a to float. c now holds the value of real division.
Highlight printf(“Value of c is %.2f\n”, c);	Now the result of real division is displayed. The answer is 2.50 as expected.
Highlight return 0; }	Type return 0; and the ending curly bracket.
	Click on Save. Save the file with .c extension. I have saved my file as typecast.c.
Open the terminal. gcc typecast.c -o type ./type	Open the terminal. To compile, type gcc typecast.c -o type to execute, type ./type
Output	The output is displayed on the screen. Value of c is 2.00 Value of c is 2.50 looking at the two values we see the effects of typecasting.
Summary	We will summarize the tutorial now. In this tutorial we learnt, To use the increment and decrement operators. Postfix forms: a++, a-- Prefix forms: ++a, --a We also learnt about typecasting and how it is used.
Assignment:	As an assignment: Write a program to solve the following expression, (a\b) + (c\d) The values of a, b, c and d are taken as input from the user. Use typecasting to perform real division.
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Remain on previous slide No slide for this part	This is Ritwik Joshi from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining.

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