LECTURE NOTE
on
PROGRAMMING IN “C”
COURSE CODE: MCA 101
By
Asst. Professor Mrs Etuari Oram
Asst. Prof. Mr Bighnaraj Naik
SYLLABUS
Module –I
C Language Fundamentals.
Character set, Identifiers, keyword, data types, Constants and variables, statements,
expression, operators, precedence of operators, Input-output, Assignments, control structures
decision making and branching.
Module -II
Arrays, Functions and Strings: Declaration, manipulation and String – handling
functions, monolithic vs. Modular programs, user defined vs. standard functions, formal vs. actual
arguments, function – category, function prototypes, parameter passing, recursion, and storage classes:
auto, extern, global, static.
Module –III
Pointers, Structures, Unions, File handling:
Pointer variable and its importance, pointer arithmetic, passing parameters, Declaration of structures,
pointer to pointer, pointer to structure, pointer to function, union, dynamic memory allocation, file
managements.
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CONTENTS
Module: 1
Lecture 1: Introduction to C
Lecture 2: Structure of C, compilation, execution
Lecture 3:character set, identifiers, keywords
Lecture 4: constants, variables
Lecture 5: expression, operators
Lecture 6: operators continue…
Lecture 7: loops: do while, while
Lecture 8: for loop, break, continue statement
Lecture 9: control Statements
Lecture 10: nesting of if else…, if else ladder
Lecture 11: arrays
Lecture 12: 2-diamensional array
Module: 2
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Lecture 13: String library functions
Lecture 14: functions, categories
Lecture 15: functions categories cont..
Lecture 16: Actual arguments and Formal arguments, call by value call by
reference
Lecture 17:local, global, static variable
Lecture 18: monolithic vs modular programming, Storage classes
Lecture 19:storage class cont.., pointer
Lecture 20: pointer comparison, increment decrement
Lecture 21: precedence level of pointer, pointer comparison
Lecture 22: pointer to pointer, pointer to structure
Lecture 23: pointer initialization, accessing elements
Module: 3
Lecture 24: size of Structure in, array vs structure, array within structure
Lecture 25: passing structure to function, Nested Structure
Lecture 26: Union
Lecture 27: nesting of unions, dynamic memory allocation
Lecture 28: dynamic memory allocation conti…
Lecture 29: dynamic array, file
Lecture 30: file operation
Lecture 31: file operation on string
Lecture 32:
Lecture 33:
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Lecture Note: 1
Introduction to C
C is a programming language developed at AT & T’s Bell Laboratories of USA
in 1972. It was designed and written by a man named Dennis Ritchie. In the late
seventies C began to replace the more familiar languages of that time like PL/I,
ALGOL, etc
ANSI C standard emerged in the early 1980s, this book was split into two
titles: The original was still called Programming in C, and the title that covered
ANSI C was called Programming in ANSI C. This was done because it took
several years for the compiler vendors to release their ANSI C compilers and for
them to become ubiquitous. It was initially designed for programming UNIX
operating system. Now the software tool as well as the C compiler is written in C.
Major parts of popular operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux is still
written in C. This is because even today when it comes to performance (speed of
execution) nothing beats C. Moreover, if one is to extend the operating system to
work with new devices one needs to write device driver programs. These
programs are exclusively written in C. C seems so popular is because it is reliable,
simple and easy to use. often heard today is – “C has been already superceded
by languages like C++, C# and Java.
Program
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