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How Kotlin handles variables

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All programming languages come with data types which are used to store different values, i-e integers, float etc. Programming languages such as C, C++, Java provide primitive data types such as byte, short, int, long, float, double, char, and boolean. These data types have very limited functionalities and cannot be assigned with null value. Java uses wrapper classes to wrap each primitive data type in an object, for example java .lang.Integer is the wrapper class for int and  … Continue Reading….

C++, A shining history with bright future

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Story starts from failure. in 1969 a big project named Multics was in trouble. It was a joint venture between General Electric, MIT, and Bell Telephone Laboratories to build an operating system. This operating system was not fast and stable as per expectations so the Bell Lab staff withdrew from this project. Team of Bell … Continue Reading….

Pointers and array

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This article will explain that why and how pointers and arrays are similar. There is a quick introduction about pointer constants and pointer variables because these terms are used in this article very often. The place where the address of a variable can be stored is called pointer variable and the address of that variable … Continue Reading….

Pointer to pointer

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In my previous blog  “Pointers. An indirect data access” we have discussed in a simple way that how you can access data by using pointers. Integer, character and double are different types of variables which can be declared and initialized in memory. int i; i = 20; char ch;  ch = ‘A’; We know that pointers are also variables … Continue Reading….

Pointer type casting

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This article is the continuation of pointer arithmetic, If you are not familiar with pointer arithmetic then have a look on my article pointer arithmetic. Changing the behavior of one type of variable to another type is known as type casting. Have a look on following example double a = 10.5, b = 20.3; int … Continue Reading….

Pointer arithmetic

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In pointers there are two arithmetic operations which can be performed. One is addition and second is subtraction. When you add some numbers in pointer it means that you are moving forward in memory and when you subtract some numbers then it means you are traversing back from that address where pointer is pointer at … Continue Reading….