Top 50 C Coding Interview Questions and Answers (2025)

// C Program to find 
// Largest of three numbers
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int a = 1, b = 2, c = 3;

    // condition for a is greatest
    if (a > b && a > c)
        printf("%d", a);

    // condition for b is greatest
    else if (b > a && b > c)
        printf("%d", b);

    // remaining conditions
    // c is greatest
    else
        printf("%d", c);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for Checking value is
// Prime or not
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    int n = 91;

    int cnt = 0;

    // If number is less than/equal to 1,
    // it is not prime
    if (n <= 1)
        printf("%d is NOT prime\n", n);
    else {

        // Check for divisors from 1 to n
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

            // Check how many number is divisible
            // by n
            if (n % i == 0)
                cnt++;
        }

        // If n is divisible by more than 2 numbers
        // then it is not prime
        if (cnt > 2)
            printf("%d is NOT prime\n", n);

        // else it is prime
        else
            printf("%d is prime", n);
    }

    return 0;
}

// C program to calculate Compound Interest
#include <stdio.h>

// For using pow function we must
// include math.h
#include <math.h>

// Driver code
int main()
{
    // Principal amount
    double principal = 2300;

    // Annual rate of interest
    double rate = 7;

    // Time
    double time = 4;

    // Calculating compound Interest
    double amount
        = principal * ((pow((1 + rate / 100), time)));
    double CI = amount - principal;

    printf("Compound Interest is : %lf", CI);
    return 0;
}

// C Program to
// Swap two numbers
// No Extra Space
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{

    int x = 10;
    int y = 20;

    printf("x: %d , y: %d\n", x, y);

    // Code to swap 'x' and 'y'
    x = x + y;
    y = x - y;
    x = x - y;

    printf("x: %d , y: %d\n", x, y);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for
// Replacing 0 to 1
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int N = 102301;

    int ans = 0;
    int i = 0;
    while (N != 0) {
        // Condition to change value
        if (N % 10 == 0)
            ans = ans + 1 * pow(10, i);
        else
            ans = ans + (N % 10) * pow(10, i);

        N = N / 10;
        i++;
    }

    printf("%d", ans);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for converting
// binary to decimal
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int N = 11011;

    // Initializing base value a to 1
    int a = 1;
    int ans = 0;
    while (N != 0) {
        ans = ans + (N % 10) * a;
        N = N / 10;
        a = a * 2;
    }

    printf("%d", ans);
    return 0;
}

// C Program to check
// Year is leap year or not
#include <stdio.h>

// Function Declaration to check leap year
void leap_year(int year)
{
    // If a year is multiple of 400, then leap year
    if (year % 400 == 0)
        printf("%d is a leap year.\n", year);

    // If a year is multiple of 100, then not a leap year
    else if (year % 100 == 0)
        printf("%d is not a leap year.\n", year);

    // If a year is multiple of 4, then leap year
    else if (year % 4 == 0)
        printf("%d is a leap year.\n", year);

    // Not leap year
    else
        printf("%d is not a leap year.\n", year);
}

int main()
{
    leap_year(2000);
    leap_year(2002);
    leap_year(2008);

    return 0;
}

// C Program to calculate
// Factorial of a number
#include <stdio.h>

// Calculating factorial using iteration
void factorial_iteration(int N)
{
    unsigned long long int ans = 1;
    for (int i = 1; i <= N; i++) {
        ans = ans * i;
    }

    printf("Factorial of %d is %lld\n", N, ans);
}

// Calculating factorial using recursion
int factorial(int N)
{
    if (N == 0)
        return 1;

    // Recursive call
    return N * factorial(N - 1);
}

int main()
{
    int n;
    n = 13;
    factorial_iteration(n);

    n = 9;
    printf("Factorial of %d using recursion:%d\n", n,
           factorial(n));

    return 0;
}

// C program to check if number
// is Armstrong number or not
#include <stdio.h>

// Function to calculate x raised to the power y
int power(int x, unsigned int y)
{
    if (y == 0)
        return 1;
    if (y % 2 == 0)
        return power(x, y / 2) * power(x, y / 2);

    return x * power(x, y / 2) * power(x, y / 2);
}

// Function to calculate order of the number
int order(int n)
{
    int res = 0;
    while (n) {
        res++;
        n = n / 10;
    }
    return res;
}

// Function to check whether the given number is
// Armstrong number or not
int isArmstrong(int x)
{
    // Calling order function
    int n = order(x);
    int temp = x, sum = 0;
    while (temp) {
        int r = temp % 10;
        sum += power(r, n);
        temp = temp / 10;
    }

    // If satisfies Armstrong condition
    if (sum == x)
        return 1;
    else
        return 0;
}

// Driver Program
int main()
{
    int x = 120;
    if (isArmstrong(x) == 1)
        printf("True\n");
    else
        printf("False\n");

    x = 1634;
    if (isArmstrong(x) == 1)
        printf("True\n");
    else
        printf("False\n");

    return 0;
}

// C program to find roots
// of a quadratic equation
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

// Prints roots of quadratic equation ax*2 + bx + x
void find_roots(int a, int b, int c)
{
    // If a is 0, then equation is not quadratic, but
    // linear
    if (a == 0) {
        printf("Invalid");
        return;
    }

    int d = (b * b) - (4 * a * c);
    double sqrt_val = sqrt(abs(d));

    if (d > 0) {
        printf("Roots are real and different \n");
        printf("%f\n%f", (double)(-b + sqrt_val) / (2 * a),
               (double)(-b - sqrt_val) / (2 * a));
    }
    else if (d == 0) {
        printf("Roots are real and same \n");
        printf("%f", -(double)b / (2 * a));
    }
    else // d < 0
    {
        printf("Roots are complex \n");
        printf("%f + i%f\n%f - i%f", -(double)b / (2 * a),
               sqrt_val / (2 * a), -(double)b / (2 * a),
               sqrt_val / (2 * a));
    }
}

// Driver code
int main()
{
    int a = 1, b = -16, c = 1;

    // Function call
    find_roots(a, b, c);
    return 0;
}

// C Programs to Calculate
// reverse of a number
#include <stdio.h>

// Iterative approach
int reverse_iteration(int N)
{
    int ans = 0;
    while (N != 0) {

        ans = ans * 10 + (N % 10);
        N = N / 10;
    }

    return ans;
}

// recursive approach
int reverse(int n, int ans)
{
    if (n == 0)
        return ans;

    ans = ans * 10 + n % 10;
    return reverse(n / 10, ans);
}

int main()
{
    int N = 15942;
    printf("Initial number:%d\n", N);

    N = reverse_iteration(N);
    printf("%d after reverse using iteration\n", N);

    int ans = 0;
    ans = reverse(N, ans);
    printf("%d after again reverse using recursion", ans);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for
// Checking Palindrome
#include <stdio.h>

// Checking if the number is
// Palindrome number
void check_palindrome(int N)
{
    int T = N;
    int rev = 0; // This variable stored reversed digit

    // Execute a while loop to reverse digits of given
    // number
    while (T != 0) {
        rev = rev * 10 + T % 10;
        T = T / 10;
    }

    // Compare original_number with reversed number
    if (rev == N)
        printf("%d is palindrome\n", N);
    else
        printf("%d is not a palindrome\n", N);
}

int main()
{
    int N = 13431;
    int M = 12345;

    // Function call
    check_palindrome(N);
    check_palindrome(M);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for checking numbers
// are equal using bitwise operator
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int x = 1;
    int y = 2;

    // Using XOR
    // XOR of two equal numbers is 0
    if (!(x ^ y))
        printf(" %d is equal to %d ", x, y);
    else
        printf(" %d is not equal to %d ", x, y);

    return 0;
}

// C program to find GCD of two numbers
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

// Function to return gcd of a and b
int gcd(int a, int b)
{
    // Find Minimum of a and b
    int result = ((a < b) ? a : b);
    while (result > 0) {
        if (a % result == 0 && b % result == 0) {
            break;
        }
        result--;
    }
    return result; // return gcd of a and b
}

// Driver program to test above function
int main()
{
    int a = 98, b = 56;
    printf("GCD of %d and %d is %d ", a, b, gcd(a, b));
    return 0;
}

// C program to find
// LCM of two numbers
#include <stdio.h>

// minimum of two numbers
int Min(int Num1, int Num2)
{
    if (Num1 >= Num2)
        return Num2;
    else
        return Num1;
}

int LCM(int Num1, int Num2, int K)
{
    // If either of the two numbers
    // is 1, return their product
    if (Num1 == 1 || Num2 == 1)
        return Num1 * Num2;

    // If both the numbers are equal
    if (Num1 == Num2)
        return Num1;

    // If K is smaller than the
    // minimum of the two numbers
    if (K <= Min(Num1, Num2)) {

        // Checks if both numbers are
        // divisible by K or not
        if (Num1 % K == 0 && Num2 % K == 0) {

            // Recursively call LCM() function
            return K * LCM(Num1 / K, Num2 / K, 2);
        }

        // Otherwise
        else
            return LCM(Num1, Num2, K + 1);
    }

    // If K exceeds minimum
    else
        return Num1 * Num2;
}

int main()
{
    // Given N & M
    int N = 12, M = 9;

    // Function Call
    int ans = LCM(N, M, 2);

    printf("%d", ans);

    return 0;
}

// C Program to check
// Maximum and Minimum
// Between two numbers
// Without any condition or loop
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    int a = 55, b = 23;

    // return maximum among the two numbers
    printf("max = %d\n", ((a + b) + abs(a - b)) / 2);

    // return minimum among the two numbers
    printf("min = %d", ((a + b) - abs(a - b)) / 2);

    return 0;
}

// C program to print
// all natural numbers
// upto N without using semi-colon
#include <stdio.h>
#define N 10

int main(int val)
{
    if (val <= N && printf("%d ", val) && main(val + 1)) {
    }
}

// C program to find area
// of circle
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define PI 3.142

double findArea(int r) { return PI * pow(r, 2); }

int main()
{
    printf("Area is %f", findArea(5));
    return 0;
}

// C Program print Pyramid pattern
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int N = 5;

    // Outer Loop for number of rows
    for (int i = 1; i <= N; i++) {

        // inner Loop for space printing
        for (int j = 1; j <= N - i; j++)
            printf(" ");

        // inner Loop for star printing
        for (int j = 1; j < 2 * i; j++)
            printf("*");
        printf("\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

// C Program to print
// Pascal's Triangle
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int n = 5;
    
      
    for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
        for (int j = 1; j <= n - i; j++) {
            printf("  ");
        }

        int x = 1;

        for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
            printf("%d   ", x);
            x = x * (i - j) / j;
        }
        printf("\n");
    }

    return 0;
}

// C program to return the Nth row of pascal's triangle
#include <stdio.h>

// Print the N-th row of the Pascal's Triangle
void generateNthrow(int N)
{
    // nC0 = 1
    int prev = 1;
    printf("%d", prev);

    for (int i = 1; i <= N; i++) {
        // nCr = (nCr-1 * (n - r + 1))/r
        int curr = (prev * (N - i + 1)) / i;
        printf(",%d ", curr);
        prev = curr;
    }
}

int main()
{
    int n = 5;
    generateNthrow(n);
    return 0;
}

// C Program to reverse
// An array
#include <stdio.h>

void reverse(int* arr, int n)
{
    // Swapping front and back elements.
    for (int i = 0, j = n - 1; i < j; i++, j--) {
        int ele = arr[i];
        arr[i] = arr[j];
        arr[j] = ele;
    }
}

int main()
{

    int arr[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
    // Function Call
    reverse(arr, 5);

    // reverse array element printing
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        printf("%d ", arr[i]);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for
// checking duplicate
// values in a array
#include <stdio.h>

int Sort(int arr[], int size)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < size - 1; i++) {

        for (int j = 0; j < size - i - 1; j++) {
            if (arr[j] > arr[j + 1]) {
                int temp = arr[j];
                arr[j] = arr[j + 1];
                arr[j + 1] = temp;
            }
        }
    }
}

// find repeating element
void findRepeating(int arr[], int n)
{
    int count = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {

        int flag = 0;
        while (i < n - 1 && arr[i] == arr[i + 1]) {
            flag = 1;
            i++;
        }
        if (flag)
            printf("%d ", (arr[i - 1]));
    }

    return;
}

int main()
{
    int arr[] = { 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5 };

    int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);
  
      Sort(arr,n);
  
      findRepeating(arr,n);
  
  

    return 0;
}

// C Program for calculating
// maximum and minimum element
#include <stdio.h>

void find_small_large(int arr[], int n)
{
    int min, max;

    // assign first element as minimum and maximum
    min = arr[0];
    max = arr[0];

    for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) {

        // finding smallest here
        if (arr[i] < min)
            min = arr[i]; // finding largest here
        if (arr[i] > max)
            max = arr[i];
    }
    printf("Maximum: %d and Minimum: %d\n", min, max);
}

int main()
{
    int arr[] = { 15, 14, 35, 2, 11, 83 };
    int len = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);

    // Function call
    find_small_large(arr, len);

    return 0;
}

// C program to rotate
// Array by  k elements
#include <stdio.h>

// Print array
void printArray(int arr[], int n)
{
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
        printf("%d ", arr[i]);
}

// Caculates greatest common divisor
int gcd(int a, int b)
{
    if (b == 0)
        return a;
    else
        return gcd(b, a % b);
}

// Rotate array
void Rotate(int arr[], int k, int N)
{
    int i, j, a, temp;
    k = k % N;

    int rotate = gcd(k, N);

    for (i = 0; i < rotate; i++) {

        temp = arr[i];
        j = i;
        while (1) {
            a = j + k;
            if (a >= N)
                a = a - N;
            if (a == i)
                break;
            arr[j] = arr[a];
            j = a;
        }
        arr[j] = temp;
    }
}

int main()
{
    int arr[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };

    // Rotating array
    Rotate(arr, 2, 5);

    // Printing array
    printArray(arr, 5);

    return 0;
}

// C Program for Sorting
// First half in Ascending order
// and Second Descending order
#include <stdio.h>

void Sort_asc_desc(int arr[], int n)
{
    int temp;
    for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) {
            if (arr[i] > arr[j]) {
                temp = arr[i];
                arr[i] = arr[j];
                arr[j] = temp;
            }
        }
    }

    // printing first half in ascending order
    for (int i = 0; i < n / 2; i++)
        printf("%d ", arr[i]);

    // printing second half in descending order
    for (int j = n - 1; j >= n / 2; j--)
        printf("%d ", arr[j]);
}

int main()
{
    int arr[] = { 11, 23, 42, 16, 83, 73, 59 };
    int N = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);

    Sort_asc_desc(arr, N);

    return 0;
}

// C Program to print sum of
// all subsets
#include <stdio.h>

// Function to print sum of subset
// Using recursion
void subset_sum(int arr[], int i, int j, int sum)
{
    if (i > j) {
        printf("%d ", sum);
        return;
    }

    subset_sum(arr, i + 1, j, sum + arr[i]);
    subset_sum(arr, i + 1, j, sum);
}

// driver code
int main()
{
    int arr[] = { 1, 2, 3 };
    int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);

    // Function calling to print subset sum
    subset_sum(arr, 0, n - 1, 0);
    return 0;
}

// C Program to check 0 sum
// subarray possible
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    // array
    int arr[] = { -2, 2, 1, 1, 8 };
    int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);

    int flag = 0, sum;

    // Traversing array to check
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {

        for (int j = i; j < n; j++) {
            sum += arr[j];

            if (sum == 0) {
                flag = 1;
                printf(
                    "True subarray with 0 sum is possible");
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    if (flag == 0)
        printf("No such condition");
}

// C program to implement Kadane's Algorithm
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int a[] = { -2, -3, 4, -1, -2, 1, 5, -3 };
    int n = sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]);

    int max_so_far = INT_MIN, max_ending_here = 0,
        start = 0, end = 0, s = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        max_ending_here += a[i];

        if (max_so_far < max_ending_here) {
            max_so_far = max_ending_here;
            start = s;
            end = i;
        }

        if (max_ending_here < 0) {
            max_ending_here = 0;
            s = i + 1;
        }
    }
    printf("Maximum contiguous sum is %d\n", max_so_far);
    printf("Starting index %d Ending index %d", start, end);
    
    return 0;
}

#include <stdio.h>

// This function stores transpose of A[][] in B[][]
void transpose(int N, int M, int A[M][N], int B[N][M])
{
    int i, j;
    for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
        for (j = 0; j < M; j++)
            B[i][j] = A[j][i];
}

int main()
{
    int M = 3;
    int N = 4;
  
    int A[3][4] = { { 1, 1, 1, 1 },
                    { 2, 2, 2, 2 },
                    { 3, 3, 3, 3 } };

    // Note dimensions of B[][]
    int B[N][M], i, j;

    transpose(N, M, A, B);

    printf("Result matrix is \n");
    for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        for (j = 0; j < M; j++)
            printf("%d ", B[i][j]);
        printf("\n");
    }

    return 0;
}

// C Program to rotate the array
// By 90 degree in clockwise direction
#include <stdio.h>

void swap(int* a, int* b){
    int temp = *a;
    *a = *b;
    *b = temp;
}

int main()
{

    int n = 4;
    int arr[4][4] = { { 1, 2, 3, 4 },
                      { 5, 6, 7, 8 },
                      { 9, 10, 11, 12 },
                      { 13, 14, 15, 16 } };

    // Print Orignal Matrix
    printf("Orignal Matrix:\n");
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
            printf("%d ", arr[i][j]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }

    // Rotate the matrix about the main diagonal
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < i; j++)
            swap(&arr[i][j], &arr[j][i]);
    }

    // Rotate the matrix about middle column
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < n / 2; j++) {
            swap(&arr[i][j], &arr[i][n - j - 1]);
        }
    }

    // Print the rotated matrix
    printf("Matrix after rotation: \n");
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
            printf("%d ", arr[i][j]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
}

// C Program to find Spiral Traversal
// Of a matrix
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int arr[4][4] = { { 1, 5, 9, 13 },
                      { 2, 6, 10, 14 },
                      { 3, 7, 11, 15 },
                      { 4, 8, 12, 16 } };

    int m = 4, n = 4;
    int i, l = 0, right = m - 1, begin = 0, end = n - 1;

    while (l <= right && begin <= end) {

        // Print the first row
        // from the remaining rows
        for (i = l; i <= right; ++i) {
            printf("%d ", arr[begin][i]);
        }
        begin++;

        // Print the last column
        // from the remaining columns
        for (i = begin; i <= end; ++i) {
            printf("%d ", arr[i][right]);
        }
        right--;

        // Print the last row from
        // the remaining rows
        if (begin <= end) {
            for (i = right; i >= l; --i) {
                printf("%d ", arr[end][i]);
            }
            end--;
        }

        // Print the first column from
        // the remaining columns
        if (l <= right) {
            for (i = end; i >= begin; --i) {
                printf("%d ", arr[i][l]);
            }
            l++;
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{

    char s[] = "124259";

    int ans = 0;
    // iterate through all the number
    for (int i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++) {
        int ele = s[i] - 48;
        if (ele <= 9)
            ans += ele;
    }
  
    // print sum of the numbers
    printf("%d", ans);

    return 0;
}

// C Program to calculate
// length of a string
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int length(char s[], int i)
{
    if (s[i] == '\0')
        return 0;

    return length(s, i + 1) + 1;
}

int main()
{
    char s[] = "GeeksforGeeks";

    // Calculating using strlen
    int len = strlen(s);
    printf("length using strlen:%d\n", len);

    // Calculating using iteration
    int i;
    for (i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++) {
        continue;
    }
    printf("length using iteration:%d\n", i);

    // Calculating using recursion
    int ans = length(s, 0);
    printf("length using recursion:%d\n", ans);
    return 0;
}

// C implementation to check if a given
// string is palindrome or not
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

bool is_palindrome(char* str, int i, int j)
{
    if (i >= j) {
        return true;
    }
    if (str[i] != str[j]) {
        return false;
    }
    return is_palindrome(str, i + 1, j - 1);
}

void check_palindrome(char* str)
{

    // Start from leftmost and
    // rightmost corners of str
    int h = 0;
    int flag = 0;
    int l = strlen(str) - 1;

    // Keep comparing characters
    // while they are same
    while (h > l) {
        if (str[l++] != str[h--]) {
            printf("%s is not a palindrome\n", str);
            flag = 1;
            break;
            // will break from here
        }
    }

    if (flag == 0)
        printf("%s is a palindrome\n", str);
}

int main()
{
    char str[] = { "GeekeeG" };
    char str2[] = { "GeeksforGeeks" };

    check_palindrome(str);

    printf("Checking %s using recursive approach\n", str2);
    bool ans = is_palindrome(str2,0,strlen(str2)-1);
    if (ans)
        printf("It is Palindrome\n");
    else
        printf("Not a Palindrome\n");

    return 0;
}

// C Program to print all permutations of a string in sorted
// order.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

// function two compare two characters a and b
int compare(const void* a, const void* b)
{
    return (*(char*)a - *(char*)b);
}

// function two swap two characters a and b
void swap(char* a, char* b)
{
    char t = *a;
    *a = *b;
    *b = t;
}

// function finds the index of the smallest character
int findCeil(char str[], char first, int l, int h)
{
    int ceilIndex = l;

    for (int i = l + 1; i <= h; i++)
        if (str[i] > first && str[i] < str[ceilIndex])
            ceilIndex = i;

    return ceilIndex;
}

// Print all permutations of str in sorted order
void sortedPermutations(char str[])
{
    int size = strlen(str);

    qsort(str, size, sizeof(str[0]), compare);

    int isFinished = 0;
    while (!isFinished) {
        printf("%s \n", str);

        int i;
        for (i = size - 2; i >= 0; --i)
            if (str[i] < str[i + 1])
                break;

        if (i == -1)
            isFinished = 1;
        else {

            int ceilIndex
                = findCeil(str, str[i], i + 1, size - 1);
            swap(&str[i], &str[ceilIndex]);
            qsort(str + i + 1, size - i - 1, sizeof(str[0]),
                  compare);
        }
    }
}

int main()
{
    char str[] = "123";
    sortedPermutations(str);
    return 0;
}

// C program  to calculate the Power of a Number using
// Recursion
#include <stdio.h>

int power(int a, int b)
{
    if (b == 0)
        return 1;

    return power(a, b - 1) * a;
}

int main()
{
    int a = 4, b = 5;

    int ans = power(a, b);

    printf("%d", ans);
    return 0;
}