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Dr.T. THIMMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(Estd. 1986) Oorgaum, Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka – 563120
(Affiliated to VTU, Belgaum, Approved by AICTE - New Delhi)
NAAC Accredited 'A' Grade, NBA Accredited (CSE, ECE, Mining Engg) Program

F.No:DrTTIT/IQAC/2022-23/059AP

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Third Internal Assessment Test Question Paper

Scheme: 2022 Academic Year:2024-25

Semester: I SEM(A/B/C/D)
Course name: Principles of Programming Course code: BPOPS103
Duration: 60 minutes Max marks: 25
Course Instructor: Prof.Jerusha / Prof.Parvathi /Prof.Sudha S Date: 20/01/25
Answer any three full questions, selecting at least one from each part
Part-A (Ten marks each)
Sl. No Question Marks CO RBT
1a. Define Pointers. Explain how to declare and initialize pointer variable 5 CO4 L2
1b. Write a program to find Sum, Mean, Standard Deviation of array 5 CO4 L3
elements using Pointers
OR
2a. Define String. Explain its declaration and initialization 5 CO4 L2
2b. Write a program to swap contents of two variables using Pointer 5 CO4 L3
technique
Part-B (Ten marks each)
3) Explain the following 10 CO4 L2
(i).strcat()
(ii).strcmp()
OR
4) Explain the Following 10 CO4 L2
(i). Generic Pointer
(ii). NULL Pointer
Part-C (five marks each)
5) Define Structures. Explain its declaration and initialization 5 CO5 L2
OR
6) Explain Enumerated data types 5 CO5 L2

CO Description

CO4 Explore user defined data structures like strings and pointers.

CO5 Design and develop solutions to problems using structures, union, and FILE I/O operations

Course Instructor PAC Member (Name & Signature) HOD

 Dr.T. THIMMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(Estd. 1986) Oorgaum, Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka – 563120
(Affiliated to VTU, Belgaum, Approved by AICTE - New Delhi)
NAAC Accredited 'A' Grade,NBA Accredited (CSE, ECE, Mining Engg) Program

F.No:DrTTIT/IQAC/2022-23/059BP

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Third Internal Assessment Test Question Paper

Scheme: 2022 Academic Year:2024-25

Semester: I SEM
Course name:Principles of Programming using C Course code: BPOP103
Duration: 60 minutes Max marks: 25
Course Instructor: Prof.Jerusha/ Prof.Parvathi/ Prof. Sudha S Date: 20/01/25

Part-A

Sl. Brief Solution Marks

No
1a. Pointer 1
It is a variable which contains address of another variable

Declaration

General form:
data_type*pointer_name 2
● * tells thar variable pointer_name is a pointer variable.

● Pointer_name is a identifier

● Pointer_name needs a memory location

● Pointer name_points to a variable of data_type

Ex: int*ptr;
2
Initialization
● Declare a data variable

● Declare pointer variable

● Assign address of data to pointer variable using & operator and assignment
operator

Ex: int x;
int*p
p=&x;
1b.
Program

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

#include<math.h>

float a[10], *ptr, mean,

std, sum=0, sumstd=0;
int n,i;ijggjk
printf("Enter the no of elements\n");
scanf("%d",&n);
printf("Enter the array
elements \n");
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
scanf("%f",&a[i]);
}
ptr=a;
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
sumstd=sumstd
+ pow((*ptr -
mean),2); ptr++;
}
std = sqrt(sumstd/n);
printf("Sum=%.3f\t",sum);
printf("Mean=%.3f\t",mean);

printf("Standard deviation=
%.3f\t", std);

}
2a.. String 1

A string is a null character array.

Declaration
2
It is defined like an array of character

Syntax: data_type string_name[size];

Example: char str[10];

Initialization
2
Syntax: data_type string name[size]=value;

Example: char str[5]=”HELLO”;

2b. Program

#include <stdio.h>

void swap(int *a, int *b)

5
{

int temp = *a;

*a = *b;

*b = temp;

int main()

int x = 5, y = 10;

printf("Before: x = %d, y = %d\n", x, y);

swap(&x, &y);

printf("After: x = %d, y = %d\n", x, y);

return 0;

}
 Part-B
3 (i). strcat() 5
It is used to concatenate or join two strings together

Syntax: strcat(destination,source);
Example:
char first[30]=”Computer”;
Strcat(first,last);

(ii). strcmp()
It is used to compare 2 strings. It takes strings as a parameters and returns an
integer value

Syntax: result=strcmp(first,second);
Result=0 🡪first=second
Result>0🡪 first>second 5
Result<0🡪 first<second

Example: int res

res=strcmp(“cat”); //res>0
res=strcmp(“pot”,”pot”); //res=0
res=strcmp(“big”,”small”); //res<0

4) (i)Generic pointer 5
These pointers are used when a pointer has to point to data of different types at different
times
Example:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int var = 10;
int *ptr = &var;
printf("Value of var: %d\n", var);
printf("Address of var: %p\n", &var);
printf("Value of ptr (address of var): %p\n", ptr);
printf("Value pointed to by ptr: %d\n", *ptr);
return 0;
}

(ii)NULL pointers
A null pointer which is a special pointer value that is known not to point anywhere. It
means it does not point to any valid memory address. 5
To declare a null pointer you may use the predefined constants NULL;
Example:
int*ptr=NULL;
or
if(ptr==NULL)
{
Statement block;
}
 Part-C
Structure

Structure is basically a user defined data type that can store related information (even of
different data types) together.

Declaration

struct tagname
{
data_type var-name;
data_type var-name;
……………..
};

Example:
struct student
{
Int r_no;
Char name[20];
5. Char course[20]; 5
Float fees;
};

Initialization

syntax:
struct struct_name;
{
data_type member_name1;
data_type member_name2;
……………………………………….
………………………………………
data_type member_namen;
};
 Enumerated data type

Enumerated data type (or enum) is a user-defined data type that consists of a set of
named integer constants.It allows you to define variables that can only take one of a
few predefined values, making your code more readable and maintainable.

syntax
enum enum_name
{
constant1 = value1,
constant2 = value2,
constant3 = value3,
...
};

program
#include <stdio.h>
6 enum day { Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday }; 5
int main()
{
enum day today;
enum variable today = Wednesday;
printf("The value of today is: %d\n", today);
return 0;
}

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