FCPIC (B-TECH Mechanical Engineering 1st-2nd)

An Overview of Computer System and Operating Systems:

Fundamentals :- Evaluation of computers, Hardware organization of a computer, Introduction to

microprocessor, generations of microprocessors, Commonly used CPUs, Input/Output devices, Input/Output ports

and connectors.

Operating System Basics: Introduction to Operating system, Functions of an Operating Systems,

Classification of Operating Systems, Basic introduction to DOS, UNIX/LINUX OS, Windows XP.

Section B

Basic Introduction to System Software and Programs:-

Machine Language, Assembly Languages, Low level languages, High level Languages, Types of high level

languages, Compiler, Interpreter, Assembler, Loader, Linker, Relationship between Compiler, Interpreter, Loader

and Linker.

Basic Introduction to Computer Networks :-

Data Communication, modulation, Network devices, LAN, LAN topologies, WAN, OSI Reference model,

Introduction to Internet and protocols : TCP/IP Reference model, Backbone network, Network connecting devices,

Hypertext documents, HTTP, DNS, Network Security.

Section C

An Overview of C:

Constants, Variables and Data types, operators and Expressions, managing I/O operations, Decision Making and

branching, Decision Making and looping, Arrays, Character Arrays and Strings, User Defined Functions.

Structure and Union in C :

Defining structure, declaring variables, Accessing structure members, structure initialization, copying and

comparing structures variables, operations on individual members, Array of structure, structure with structure,

unions, size of structure.

MDU B.Tech Syllabus (common for all branches) – I Year

Section D

Pointers in C :

Introduction, Understanding Pointers, Accessing the address of a variable, Declaring Pointer Variables, Initialization

of Pointer Variables, Accessing a variable through its pointer, Chain of Pointers, Pointer Expressions, Pointer

Increments and Scale Factors, pointers and Arrays, Pointer and Character Strings, Arrays of Pointers, Pointers as

Function Arguments, Functions Returning Pointers, Pointers to Functions.

Dynamic Memory Allocation and File Management in C :-

Introduction, Dynamic memory allocation, allocating a block of memory: Malloc, allocating multiple blocks of

memory: Calloc. Releasing the used space: Free, Altering the size of block: Realloc, Defining and opening file,

closing file, I/O operation on files, error handling during I/O operations, Random Access to files and command line

arguments