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Learning C for Arduino

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Learning C for Arduino

By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

This book will start with the fundamentals of C programming and programming topics, such data types, functions, decision making, program loops, pointers, and structures, with the help of an Arduino board. Then you will get acquainted with Arduino interactions with sensors, LEDs, and autonomous systems and setting up the Arduino environment. Moving on you will also learn how to work on the digital and analog I/O, establish serial communications with autonomous systems, and integrate with electronic devices. By the end of the book, you will be able to make basic projects such as LED cube and smart weather system that leverages C.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning C for Arduino
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Nested structure


We can declare a nested structure as the nested loop. This means we can define a structure inside another structure. The basic syntax of a nested structure is as follows:

struct firstStructure { // our first structure  
  //variables 
}; 
struct secondStructure { // Our second structure 
  struct firstStruct objName; //Created object of fist  structure(Nesting) 
  //More variables 
}; 

Let's look at an example. Let's say we need two types of information about a student, basic information and personal information. The basic information includes the name and roll number. The personal information includes age, phoneNum and sex. The structures of the two types of information will be as follows:

struct basicInfo { // our first structure 
  String name; 
  int roll; 
}; 
struct personalInfo { //our second structure. 
  int age; 
  int phoneNum; 
  char sex; 
}; 

We will nest the first structure to the...