How to Schedule a Shutdown in Windows

You can schedule a shutdown in Windows. We will see how to plan a shutdown in your windows computer. It works for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. To arrange or organize an automatic shutdown in your Windows computer, we use a run command. Once you set up a shutdown, when the specified time period is elapsed, you computer will shut down. Follow the given instructions to schedule an auto shutdown.

1. Open Run dialog box from start menu (or by pressing Windows key + R).
2. type shutdown /s /t sec in it.
   Here sec is the amount of time in seconds to be elapsed before shut down.
3. Press Enter or click OK.
4. You will be notified that a shutdown is scheduled.
5. It is done.

An example is:

shutdown /s /t 600

Here after 600 seconds (10 minutes), the computer will turn off. The following video will show you.

How to use fork and exec System Call

Using fork and exec System calls in Linux (UNIX) operating systems. Fork system call is used to create a child process from a parent process.
#include<stdio.h>
main()
{

How to make parent process wait till Completion of Child Process (Joining parent with child process)

How to make the parent process wait till the completion of execution of child process. The following C program makes the parent process to wait till the completion of its child process.

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{

How to make Child process an Orphan Process

C program in Linux or Unix to make a child process orphan:

Making child as orphan

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{

C Program to Display and Set System Time and Date Using 8086 Interrupts

This is a C Program to Display and Set System Time and Date Using 8086 Interrupts. Interrupt number 21 (in hexadecimal) is used to:

Output of c Program to get and set system time and date 

• Get System time
• Set System time
• Get System Date
• Set System Date

To Get system date:

- Call interrupt 0x21 (hexadecimal) 

- AH (higher byte of accumulator) should be made equal to 2A (hex) before calling interrupt

Output:

C Program to Display SCAN and ASCII Codes of Keys on Keyboard Using 8086 Interrupt

Output (ASCII and SCAN code) when a is pressed

This program displays SCAN code and ASCII code of any key pressed on the keyboard. We use inregs is made zero in the program. Then interrupt 16h is called using int86() function in dos.h. The arguments are interrupt number (in hexadecimal ; in C 0x16) pointer to input register and pointer to output register.

Algorithm, C and C++ Programs to find Closure From Functional Dependencies

In this post we will see how to find closure of an attribute or a set of attributes. Before learning how to get closure, we should first know what is a closure. Closure of a given set C is the set of attributes that are functionally determined by the set C under the set of functional dependencies F. There can be closure for any set. Every attribute in the set whose closure is to be found out, will be a member of its closure set C⁺ also. Consider an example:

Storage Classes for Variables in C Programming Language

Every variable in C programming language has two properties; type and storage class. 'Type' refers to the data type of the variable such as integer, character, floating point values etc. It also deals with the size of the variable ( in bytes). 'Storage class' determines the part of memory where storage is allocated for the variable and how long the storage allocation continues to exist. It also determines the scope which specifies the part of the program over which a variable name is visible, i.e. the variable is accessible by name. The scope restriction can be overrode by making use of pointers. Whatever, in short, storage class is the property that determines the part of memory where storage is allocated, the lifetime of variable and the scope of the variable.

There are for storage classes in C programming:

• Automatic
• Register
• External
• Static

Conditional Operator in C and C++

Conditional Operator is an operator which is substitutive for if-else statements. It is a ternary operator (operator which operates on 3 operands). It is often called ?: operator. The operands are expression1, expression2 and expression3. The syntax is as follows:

expression1 ? expression2 : expression3

The expression expression1  will be evaluated always. Execution of expression2 and expression3 depends on the outcome of expression1. expression1 is checked whether true or not. It is considered like a boolean variable. The outcome of an expression is true if it has a non zero value. If its value is zero, the outcome of expression is false. If the expression1 is true, then expression2 is evaluated. If the expression1 is false, then expression3 is evaluated. Consider the following example:

Linear Search in C and C++ Languages

Linear search simply means 'looking for an element in the whole array from one end to the other'. The searched element is compared with the first element of array first, then with the second, then with the third, so on upto the end of the array. This is time consuming when the array is pretty enough. The time complexity is highest.The C and C++ programs for linear search is given below.

C Program:

#include<stdio.h>

void main()
{

C and C++ Programs to Check Whether a Number is Strong Number or Not

This post contains C and C++ program to check whether a given number is Strong number or not. A strong number is a number for which the sum of factorials of its digits is equal to the number itself. The first one is C program to check whether the input number is a strong number or not. An example is 145. 1!+4!+5!=1+24+120=145 Therefore 145 is a strong number.

C Program:

#include<stdio.h>
long int factorial(int n)

{

The ASCII Character Set or ASCII Chart

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a 7 bit alphanumeric code used in computers. Each character is assigned with a positive integer (in between 0 and 127). This is the most popular coding system. The following is the ASCII chart of characters and corresponding integer value.

C and C++ Programs for String Sorting

Here i am writing programs in c and c++ languages to sort a given number of strings. Sorting is carried out based on the ASCII values of the letters in the strings. The string comparing function strcmp() is used in the program. These programs sort a given set of strings in ascending order.To change it into descending order just replace > with < in comparison line. The comparison line in the code is marked by comment.

C Program:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{

C Program for Subtraction Without Using Minus Sign

The following is a program to subtract a number from another without using minus symbol. Instead of doing a normal subtract operation, the two's complement of the subtrahend is added to the minuend. (In 3-4, 3 is minuend and 4 is subtrahend.) In other words, the 1's complement and 1 is added to minuend.

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
int a,b,sum;
printf("Enter any two integers: ");

scanf("%d%d",&a,&b);
sum = a + ~b + 1;
printf("Difference of two integers: %d",sum);
}

C and C++ Programs to Find Sum of Digits of a Given Number

The following are C and C++ programs to find sum of digits of any given integer.

C Program

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{

C and C++ Program for Swapping Two Numbers Without Third Variable

This post contains C and C ++ programs for swapping two given numbers without using any temporary variable. Only the two variables are required, not a third.

C Program

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{

C and C++ swapping numbers

The following are C and C++ programs to swap the values of two variables using a third variable.

C Program:

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
int x,y,temp;
printf("Enter the value of xand y\n");
scanf("%d%d", &x, &y);
printf("Before Swapping\n x= %d\n y = %d\n",x,y);
temp = x;
x= y;
y = temp;
printf("After Swapping\n x= %d\ny= %d\n",x,y);
}

C and C++ Program to Check Whether a Given Number is Even or Odd

C and C++ programs to check whether a given number is Odd or even

C Program

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
int n;
printf("Enter an integer\n");
scanf("%d",&n);
if ( n%2 == 0 )
printf("Even");
else
printf("Odd");
}

C++ Program

#include<iostream.h>
void main()
{
int n;
cout<<"Enter an integer\n";
cin>>n;
if ( n%2 == 0 )
cout<<"\nEven";
else
cout <<"\nOdd";
}

C and C++ Program to Check Whether a Given Year is Leap Year or Not

This is post contains a C program and a C++ program to check whether an input year is leap year or not. A year is a leap year if:

1. The year is divisible by 400
2. The year is divisible by 4 but not divisible by 100.

Any other year is not a leap year.

C program

#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
int year;
printf("Enter a year to check if it is a leap year\n");
scanf("%d", &year);
if(year%400==0 || ((year%4=0) && (year%100!=0)))
printf("%d is a leap year.\n", year); else
printf("%d is not a leap year.\n", year);
}

C++ program

#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
int year;
cout<<"Enter a year to check if it is a leap year or not";
cin>>year;
if(year%400==0 || ((year%4=0) && (year%100!=0)))
cout<<"\n"<<year<<"is a leap year."; else
cout<<"\n"<<year<<"is NOT a leap year."; 
}

C and C++ Programs to Check Whether a Given Number is Armstrong Number or Not

This post contains two programs, a C++ program and a C program. These are programs to check whether a given number is an Armstrong number or not. An Armstrong number is a positive integer for which the sum of 'n'th power of all of its digits is equal to the number itself. For example, 153 is a 3 digit Armstrong number because 1³+5³+3³=153.

C ++ program:

# include <iostream.h>

# include <conio.h>

# include <math.h>

void main ()

{

clrscr();

int a,b=0,sum=0;

long int n;

cout<<"Enter the number to be checked\n ";

cin>>n;

if(n<1)
{
cout<<"\nThe number should be greater than 0";
}
else
{
a=n;
//counting the digits
while (a>0) 
{
a=a/10; 
b++;
}
a=n;
//adding up bth power of digits
while(a>0)
{
sum=sum+pow(( a%10) ,b);
a=a/10;
}
if(sum==n)
cout<<"\nThe number is an ARMSTRONG number";
else
cout<<"\nThe number is NOT an ARMSTRONG number";
}
getch();
}

C Program:

# include <stdio.h>

# include <conio.h>

# include <math.h>

void main ()

{

clrscr();

int a,b=0,sum=0;

long int n;

printf("Enter the number to check\n ");

scanf("%i",&n);
if(n<1)
{
printf ("\nThe number should be greater than 0");
}
else
{
a=n;
//counting the digits
while (a>0) 
{
a=a/10; 
b++;
}
a=n;
//adding up bth power of digits
while(a>0)
{
sum=sum+pow(( a%10) ,b);
a=a/10;
}
if(sum==n)
printf ("\nThe number is an ARMSTRONG number");
else
printf ("\nThe number is NOT an ARMSTRONG number");
}
getch();
}