Daffodil International University

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

CSE 122: Computer Programming Lab

Experiment Name 6: Programming with While Loop

Objectives:

• How to constructs while loop in C-Language

• How to write the body of the while loop

Theory:

The while statement is also a looping statement. The while loop evaluates the test expression before every loop, so it can

execute zero times if the condition is initially false. It has the following syntax.

while (expression)

Statement 1;

Statement 2;

…………...

Statement n;

Here the initialization of a loop control variable is generally done before the loop separately. The testing of the

condition is done in while by evaluating the expression within the parenthesis. If the evaluation result is true value, the

block of statement within calibrates is executed. If the evaluation result is false value the block of statements within the

body of loop is skipped and the loop execution get terminated with the control passing to the statement immediately

following the while construct. The increment or decrement of the loop control variable is generally done within the body

of the loop.

Syntax of while loop

while (test expression) {

statement/s to be executed. }

The while loop checks whether the test expression is true or not. If it is true, code/s inside the body of while loop is
executed,that is, code/s inside the braces { } are executed. Then again the test expression is checked whether test
expression is true or not. This process continues until the test expression becomes false.
Example of while loop

Write a C program to find the factorial of a number, where the number is entered by user. (Hints: factorial of n =
1*2*3*...*n

/*C program to demonstrate the working of while loop*/

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

int number,factorial;

printf("Enter a number.\n");

scanf("%d",&number);

factorial=1;

while (number>0){ /* while loop continues util test condition number>0 is true */

factorial=factorial*number;

--number;

printf("Factorial=%d",factorial);

return 0;

}
Problem: Write a program to determine and print the sum of the following harmonic series for a given value of n
1+2+3+4+5+……………….n

Coding:

#include <stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>

main ()
{
int n, sum;
printf("Enter an integer: \n");
scanf("%d", &n);
i=0;
sum=0;
while (i<=n)
{
sum= sum+i;
i=i+1;
}
Printf(“sum=%d”,sum);
getch ();
}

Exercise:

1. Write a program for the following expression.

12+22+32+42+………………. +.n2

2. Write Algorithm of the program

3. Draw the flowchart of the program