PROGRAMMING IN ‘C’

Paper Code: 
CAI 201
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

 

This module is designed to acquaint the students with the basics of ‘C’ programming language.

Learning Outcome

Learning and Teaching Strategies

Assessment Strategies-

 

Students will :

CO16.Construct and implement algorithms/pseudo codes and logic building.
CO17. Design C programs for different problems based on diffrent structured programming concepts.
CO18. Apply the concept of branching and looping in different programs.
CO19. Implement various operations using arrays .
CO20. Apply various string manipulation operations using C programming .
 

 

 

Learning and Teaching Strategies-

Approach in teaching:

          Interactive Lectures, Discussions, student centered approach, Through video Tutorials 

          Learning activities:

          Presentations,  Quizzes and  Assignments

 

Assessment Strategies-

 

          Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials,

          Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects and peer review.

 

 

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Introduction to computers: Personal computing, Distributed Computing and Client/ Server Computing, Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High level Languages, The history of C, The C standard library, Structured Programming, the basics of a typical C program Development Environment.

Introduction to ‘C’ programming: Introduction, A Simple C program, Memory Concepts, Arithmetic in C, Decision making.       

Structured Program Development in C: Introduction, Algorithm, Pseudocode, Control structures, relational operator, the if selection structure, The if/else selection structure, goto statement.

8.00
Unit II: 

Operators and Expressions: Arithmetic, Logical, Assignment, Increment and Decrement, Evaluation, Precedence and Associativity of expressions.

Structured Program Development in C: The while repetition structure, Counter Controlled Repetition, Sentinel Controlled Repetition, Nested control structures.

C Program control: Introduction, Essentials of repetition, Counter controlled repetition, for repetition structure, for structure: notes and observations.

 

10.00
Unit III: 

C Program control: The switch multiple selection structure, the do/while repetition structure, the break and continue statements.

C Functions (Non-Recursive): Introduction, Program Modules in C, Math Library Functions, Functions, Functions Definitions, Function Prototypes, Header Files, Calling Functions: Call by Value and Call by reference, Storage Classes, Scope rules.

 

10.00
Unit IV: 

C Arrays: Declaring Arrays, Passing Arrays to Functions, Sorting arrays (Bubble Sort), Searching (Linear, Binary Search), Multiple-Subscripted Arrays.

Structures and Union: Definition, declaration, initialization, array of structure, arrays within structures, structures within structures.

C Pointers: Introduction, Pointer variable declaration and initialization, Pointer operators.

 

7.00
Unit V: 

C characters and Strings: Introduction, Fundamentals of Strings and characters, Character and String Handling Library, String conversions and comparison functions.

C Formatted Input/Output: Streams, formatting output with printf, Printing: Integers, Floating point numbers, Strings, Characters. Field Widths and Precisions, Flags in print format control string, Escape sequences, formatted input with scanf.

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Yashwant Kanetkar, “Working with C”, BPB Publications.
  2. E. Balagurusami, ”Programming in ‘ANSI C’ “,  TMH Publications

 

REFERENCES: 

1.                  Yashwant Kanetkar, ”Let us ‘C’”,  BPB Publication

2.                  H.M. Deitel and P.J. Deitel “How to program in ‘C’”, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education.

3.                  Kernighan B.W, “ The C Programming Language (ANSI C) “

4.                  Schaum Series, “C Programming”, TMH

5.                  B.Kernighan & D.Ritchie “C Programming Language”, 2nd Edition, (Prentice-Hall, 1988).

 

Academic Year: 
2021-22
  • Printer-friendly version