Computers play a vital role in present day life, more so, in the professional life of

Technician, Engineers. People working in field/ computer industry use computers in

solving problems more easily and effectively. In order to enable the students use the

computers effectively in problem solving, this course offers the modern programming

language C along with exposition to various applications of computers. The knowledge

of C language will be reinforced by the practical exercises.

Basic Programming concepts – Algorithm, Flowcharts. Modular Programming

structured programming.

Overview of C : Introduction, Importance of ‘C’, Sample ‘C’ Programs. Basic structure

of ‘C’ programs, programming style.

Constants, Variables and Data types : ‘C’ Tokens, Keywords, Identifiers, Constants &

Variables. Data types, Declaration of variables, assigning values to variables. Defining

symbolic constants ,Operators and expression: Arithmetic operators, Relational

operators, Logical operators. Assignment operators, increment and decrement

operators. Conditional operators, Bitwise operators, special operators, type conversion

in expressions, operator precedence and associatively, Built-in Mathematical functions.

Managing Input and Output statements: I/O syntax, Programs based on I/O,

Arithmetic operations. Branching and Looping : Decision making with IF statement,

simple IF statement, IF - ELSE statement & nesting of IF - ELSE statements. The

Switch statement, Ternary operator, Break, Continue, Exit & GOTO Statement,

WHILE statement, Do-While & For Loop.

Arrays: One dimensional arrays, Two-dimensional arrays, initialize& Declaring single

dimensional arrays & Multidimensional arrays, Handling of character, strings, string

User defined functions: Need for user-defined functions, a multi-functional program,

Return values and their types, calling a function, Types of functions, recursion,

functions with arrays. Pointers : Understanding pointers, accessing the address of

variables, declaring and initializing pointers, accessing a variable through its pointer.

1. Programming exercises on executing and editing a ‘C’ program.

2. Programming exercises on defining variables and assigning values to variables.

3. Programming exercises on arithmetic and relational operators.

4. Programming exercises on arithmetic expressions and their evaluation

5. Programming exercises on formatting input/output using printf and scanf.

6. Programming exercises using if statement.

7. Programming exercises using if – Else.

8. Programming exercises on switch statement.

9. Programming exercises on do – while statements.

10. Programming exercises on for – statement.

11. Programs on one-dimensional array.

12. Programs on two-dimensional array.

13. (i) Programs for putting two strings together. (ii) Programs for comparing two

strings.

14. Simple programs using pointers.

1. Programming in C by Schaum Series, McGraw Hills Publishers, New York

2. Application Programming in C by R.S. Salaria, Khanna Book Publishing Co(P) Ltd.

New Delhi

3. Let Us Exploring C by Yashwant Kanetkar – BPB Publications, New Delhi

4. Programming with C Language by C Balaguruswami, Tata McGraw Hill, New

Delhi

4. Programming in C by Stefin G. Coachin

5. Programming in C by R Subburaj, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., Jangpura, New

Delhi

6. Elements of C by M.H. Lewin, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi

7. Programming in C by Stephen G Kochan

8. Programming in C by BP Mahapatra, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi

9. Programming in C by Suresh Srivastava