Chapter 6 Data Types
 

• Data type should match real world problem space.
• The contemporary concepts of data typing have evolved over the past 40 years.
• In late 70’s, user defined Data Type is developed and it led to object-oriented design & programming.

Primitive Data Types

Character String Types

User-Defined Ordinal Types

Array Types

Record Type:  In C++, it is "struct".

Pointer Types