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BCA-101 Programming in C (2)

The document outlines the BCA-101 course titled 'Programming in C', which is a core course worth 4 credits in the first semester, aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in C programming. It covers essential topics such as problem-solving concepts, control structures, arrays, functions, structures, pointers, and file management. Upon completion, students will understand code organization, data structures, and string manipulation, supported by recommended textbooks and references.

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BCA-101 Programming in C (2)

The document outlines the BCA-101 course titled 'Programming in C', which is a core course worth 4 credits in the first semester, aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in C programming. It covers essential topics such as problem-solving concepts, control structures, arrays, functions, structures, pointers, and file management. Upon completion, students will understand code organization, data structures, and string manipulation, supported by recommended textbooks and references.

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Course Code BCA-101

Category Core Course


Course Title Programming in C
L T P Credit Semester
Scheme & Credits
3 1 0 4 I
Pre-requisites High School Education

Course Objectives:

1. A student will gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of C programming.


2. A student will be able to code, compile and test C programs.
3. Be able to take up Systems programming or Advanced C programming course.
4. Although this course does not deal with Object Oriented Programming methodology, this
will help the student in building the necessary foundation for undertaking a course in C+
+ and OOP.
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PROGRAMMING IN C
Lectures: 40
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Module I: (Lecture 09)


Problem Solving and Programming Concepts: Problem Solving in Everyday Life, Types of
Problem, Problem Solving with Computers.

Overview of C: History of C, Importance of C, Structure of C program, Sample of C programs,


C Tokens, Keywords, Identifier, Constant, Variable, Data types.

Operators and Expressions: Different types of operators – arithmetic operators, relational


operators, logical operators, assignment operators, increment and decrement operators, bitwise
operators, conditional operators and special operators, Arithmetic expressions – precedence of
arithmetic operators, Type conversions in expressions.

Module II: (Lecture 07)


Decision control and Branching: Decision making with if statement – Simple if statement, if -
else statement, Nesting of if-else statement, else-if ladder, Switch statement, Application of
Conditional Operator, GOTO statement.
Decision control and Looping: while statement, do while statement, for statement, Jumps in
loops.

Module III: (Lecture 09)


Arrays: One - dimensional arrays, Declaration of one – dimensional arrays, Two –dimensional
arrays, Declaration of two – dimensional arrays, Multi – dimensional arrays.

Character Arrays and String: Declaring and initializing string variables, Reading string from
terminal, writing string to screen, Putting string together, Comparison of two strings, String
handling functions, other features of strings.

Module IV: (Lecture 06)


Function: User defined functions, A multi – function program, Definition of function, Function
calls, Function declaration, Category of functions, Nesting of functions, Recursion, Passing
arrays to functions, Passing strings to functions.

Module V: (Lecture 09)


Structures and Unions: Defining a structure, Declaring structure variables, Accessing structure
members, Arrays of structures, Arrays within structures, Structures within structures, Structures
and functions, Union.

Pointers: Understanding pointers, Accessing the address of a variable, Declaring pointer


variables, Pointer expressions, Array of pointers, Pointers to function, Pointers and structures.

File Management: Defining and opening a file, closing a file, Input/output operations on files,
Error handling during I/O operations.

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Course outcomes:

After course completion the students will have the:


CO1 Understanding a functional hierarchical code organization.

CO2 Ability to define and manage data structures based on problem subject domain.

CO3 Ability to work with textual information, characters and strings.


References:

TEXT BOOK:
T1: E. Balaguruswamy, “Programming in ANSI C”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 7th Edition, 2017.
T2: Byron Gottfried, “Programming with C (Schaum's Outlines Series)”, McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition,
2017.

REFERENCE BOOK:
R1: Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, “The C Programming Language”, Pearson
Education India, 2nd Edition, 2015
R2: Yashwant Kanetkar, “Let us C”, BPB Publications, 15th Edition, 2016.
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