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103 C Programming I

This document outlines the course objectives, learning outcomes, prerequisites, textbooks, and units covered in a C Programming course offered in the first semester. The objective is to teach the C programming language with an emphasis on semantics and problem solving. By the end of the course students should be able to write good C programs, understand and use C libraries, and effectively use arrays and functions. The course covers topics like basic C syntax, variables, data types, operators, control structures, functions, arrays, strings, and more across 8 units.

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103 C Programming I

This document outlines the course objectives, learning outcomes, prerequisites, textbooks, and units covered in a C Programming course offered in the first semester. The objective is to teach the C programming language with an emphasis on semantics and problem solving. By the end of the course students should be able to write good C programs, understand and use C libraries, and effectively use arrays and functions. The course covers topics like basic C syntax, variables, data types, operators, control structures, functions, arrays, strings, and more across 8 units.

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BCA

SEMESTER I
Course Name: C- Programming I
No. of credits: 05
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Objectives: This is a first course in programming. The objective of this paper is to teach the
Programming Language C. However, the process of learning a computer language will also be
emphasized. Emphasis is also on semantics and problem solving.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course a student should be able to -
(a) write good programs in C language
(b) Understand and use C libraries
(c) Effectively use of Arrays and functions

Pre-requisites: XII Standard Mathematics


Text Books:
E.Balagurusamy (2009), Programming with C , Tata McGraw Hill

Yashawant Kanetkar, let Us C, BPB Publication

UNIT I: Learning a Computer Language :


Natural Languages and Computer Languages- Symbols, Alphabet, Vocabulary and Reserved
words, High level words and Identifiers, Sentences and Statements, Executable and Non-
Executable Statements, Types of Executable Statements- Input Statements,

Assignment and Arithmetic Statements, Control Statements- Sequential, Selection, Iteration


Statements, Output Statements, Concepts of a Program and subprogram, Procedures and
functions, Syntactic, Semantic, and Logical Errors in a program, Program Correctness-
Verification and Validation, Concept of Test Data

UNIT II: Introduction to computer Language C :


Concepts of Machine, Assembly, and Higher Level Languages, Origins of C, Characters and
Character Set of C, Tokens in C, The function main()
UNIT III : Statements in C :
Non-executable Statements in C- Comments and Type Declarations, Data types in C, Input and
Output Statements in C- scanf(), printf (),Formatted input and output statements

UNIT IV : Operators, Precedence, and Associativity :


Operators and operands, Unary and Binary Operators, Concept of Expression, Arithmetic
Expressions, Relational Expressions, Assignment Expressions, Evaluation of Expressions,
Concepts of Precedence and Associativity, Table of Precedence and Associativity.

UNIT V : Programming Construct :


Selection Statement in C- if, if..else, conditional operator as a simplification of if..else, Key
words case, switch, break, default, go to, Iteration Statement in C- while, for statement,
do..while, continue, break

UNIT VI : Concept of a function :


Function declaration, Function Definition, and Function Use, Local/public variables, Variable
Scope, Function types, actual parameters, formal parameters, Call by value, Storage Classes

UNIT VII : Arrays :


Definition, Random Access to elements -Capacity, Size, Operator [ ], initializing, reading into,
writing to and traversing an array, Sorting, searching using array, Two-dimensional Arrays,
Arrays as arguments to functions

UNIT VIII : Strings :


Strings in C and String manipulation functions, Input, output statements for strings, String as
arguments to functions, Examples on String manipulation functions

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