C (BSC-IT 1st)

SECTION-A

Algorithm and Programming Development: Steps in development of a program, Flow

charts, Algorithm Development, Program Debugging, Compilation and Execution.

Fundamentals of ‘C’: I/O statements, Assignment Statements, Constants, Variables,

Operators and Expressions, Standards and Formatted statements, Keywords, Data

Types and Identifiers. (12)

SECTION-B

Control Structures: Introduction, Decision making with if – statement, if-else and

Nested if, while and do-while, for loop. Jump statements: break, continue, goto, switch

Statement

Functions: Introduction to Functions, Function Declaration, Function Categories,

Standard Functions, Parameters and Parameter Passing, Call – by value/reference,

Recursion, Global and Local Variables, Storage classes. (12)

SECTION-C

Arrays: Introduction to Arrays, Array Declaration, Single and Multidimensional Array,

Memory Representation, Matrices, Strings, String handling functions.

Structure and Union: Declaration of structure, Accessing structure members, Structure

Initialization, Arrays of structure, nested structures, Unions (12)

SECTION-D

Pointers: Introduction to Pointers, Address operator and pointers, Declaring and

Initializing pointers, Assignment through pointers, Pointers and Arrays

Files: Introduction, Creating a data file, opening and closing a data file, processing a

data file.

Preprocessor Directives: Introduction and Use, Macros, Conditional Preprocessors,

Header Files