Articles by Himanshu Arora
About Himanshu Arora
Himanshu Arora has been working on Linux since 2007. He carries professional experience in system level programming, networking protocols, and command line. In addition to HowtoForge, Himanshu's work has also been featured in some of world's other leading publications including Computerworld, IBM DeveloperWorks, and Linux Journal.
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Linux C programming tutorial Part 28 - Typedefs
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: May 09, 2019In this tutorial - which is part of the ongoing C programming tutorial series - we will discuss the concept of typedef. As the name suggests (think of typedef as type+def), typedef is a C provided facility to define new names for existing data types.
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Linux C Programming tutorial part 27 - Array of structures
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: May 06, 2019In this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have been discussing lately about structures. Now, expanding further on the concept of structures, we'll discuss how to create an array of structures using easy to understand examples.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 26 - Structures and Functions
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: May 03, 2019In one of our previous command line tutorials, we touched upon the concept of Structures. Using easy to understand examples, we discussed basic stuff like what are structures and why are they required. Expanding upon that, in this tutorial, we will discuss how structures and functions can be used together.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 25 - Function pointers
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 2 • Published: Apr 29, 2019Just like we have pointers to variables, there can also be pointers to functions. Following is an example of a function pointer declaration.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 24 - Multi dimensional arrays
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: Apr 26, 2019If you're following this ongoing C programming tutorial series, you'd be aware of the concept of arrays. To quickly refresh, arrays are used to store multiple values of the same type in continuous storage.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 23 - Structures
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 2 • Published: Apr 23, 2019So far in this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have discussed several aspects, ranging from variables to functions to even pointers. However, that's still like scratching the surface, as there are many other important concepts in the C programming language. Today, in this tutorial, we will discuss one such concept - the concept of structures.
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Linux C Programming tutorial part 22 - Accessing command line arguments within C program
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 1 • Published: Apr 15, 2019In the previous tutorial, we discussed multiple concepts related to pointers in C programming language. One of the concepts we discussed was an array of pointers.
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Linux C Programming tutorial Part 21: Character pointers, array of pointers, and pointer to pointer
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0The concept of pointers is indeed one of the very important concepts in the C programming language. Up until now, we have discussed several aspects of pointers in C. Expanding on that, in this tutorial, we will be discussing a few more pointer concepts.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 20 - Pointer address arithmetic
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0In our previous tutorial in this ongoing C Programming series, we discussed pointers in a bit of detail. Extending that discussion, here we are with some more discussion worthy concepts related to pointers.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 19: Pointers and Arrays
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0Up until now in this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have briefly discussed the basics of pointers. There are, however, several more pointers related concepts that need to be discussed. So in this tutorial, we will be discussing the concept of pointers and arrays.
