Programming in C

Language Elements, Algorithms and Flowcharts, History, Execution of C Program, Constants, Variables and Keywords, Data types, Expressions, constants, variables, Operators, Operator Precedence and associativity, data input and output, Formatted Console I/O Functions, Conversion Specifications, assignment statements, conditional statements, Looping Statements, Storage Classes.

Introduction to Function, Functions with Simple Output Parameters, Passing Values between Functions, Multiple Calls to a Function, Introduction to Pointers, Parameter Passing by Value v/s Parameter Passing by Reference, Recursion and stack.

Arrays: Declaring and Referencing Arrays, Array Subscripts, Using for Loops for Sequential Access, Multidimensional Arrays, Passing arrays as arguments.

Structures & Unions- definition, Processing structures – Passing structures to a function.

Pointers: Operations on Pointers – Pointers to Functions, Functions Returning Pointers, Arrays of pointers,  Pointers to structures and Array of structures.

String Functions, Two dimensional Array of Characters, Character Operations, Pointers and Strings,  Array of Pointers to Strings.

Features of C Pre-processor, Macros, File Inclusion, Conditional Compilation, Header Files, Implementation Files, Macros, File Operations, File opening modes, Text files and Binary files, argc v/s argv, Operations on Bits, Typecasting, Bit Fields.