SECOND SEMESTER

PROGRAMMING IN C

FULL MARKS: 100 TIME: 3 HOURS.

1. Types of Programming Languages:

Introduction to C. Desirable program characteristics. The C character set. Identifiers and Keywords. Data types. Constants, Variables, declarations, expressions, statements, symbolic constants.

2. Single character input

The getchar function, single character outpout, the putchar function, entering input data - the scanf function, writing outpout data - the printf function, the gets and puts functions. interactive (Conversational) programming. Arithmetic operators, Relational and logical operators, Assignment operators, the conditional operator.

3. The while statement:

The do - while statement, the for statement, nested loops, the if-else statement, the switch statement, the break statement, the continue statement, the comma operator, the goto statement.

4. Defining a function:

Accessing a function, passing arguments to a function, defining an array, processing an array, passing arrays to a function, multidimensional arrays, arrays and strings, macro.

5. Pointer declarations:

Passing pointers to a function, pointers and one-dimensional arrays, operations on pointers, pointers and multidimensional arrays, opening and closing a data file, creating a data file.

Books:

1. Theory and problems of Programming with C - B.S. Gottfried (Tata McGraw Hill).

2. Programming in C - E.Baluguruswamy (Tata McGraw Hill).

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