What is the difference between prefix and postfix operators?

Question

The following code prints a value of 9. Why? Here return(i++) will return a value of 11 and due to --i the value should be 10 itself, can anyone ex

Answer 1

Prefix:

int a=0;

int b=++a;          // b=1,a=1 

before assignment the value of will be incremented.

Postfix:

int a=0;
int b=a++;  // a=1,b=0 

first assign the value of 'a' to 'b' then increment the value of 'a'