Department of Technical Education
Diploma Programme
SECOND SEMESTER
SUBJECT : 'C' PROGRAMING
Common to E&C ,EI&C, CS&E, IS&E& MX
Hrs / Week -- 4 Total Hrs - 64
CURRICULUM
SL Topics Hours Marks
Section - I
1 Introduction to 'C' Language 12 30
2 Condition and Loops 12 30
Section - II
3 Arrays 12 30
4 Strings 4 10
Section - III
5 Structures & Unions 8 20
6 Functions 8 20
7 Preprocessor 4 10
Tests & Assignment 4
Total 64 150
CONTENTS
Topics Content Periods
1 Introduction to 'C' Language 12
1.01
Character set, Variable and Identifiers, Built-in Data Types, Variable Definition,
Declaration, C Key Words-Rules & Guidelines for Naming Variables.
1.02 Arithmetic operators and Expressions, Constants and Literals, Precedence and
Order of Evaluation.
1.03 Simple assignment statement, Basic input/output statement.
1.04 Simple 'C' programs.
2 Condition and Loops 12
2.01 Decision making within a Program.
2.02 Conditions, Relational Operators, Logical Operator.
2.03 if statement, if-else statement.
2.04 Break, Continue, Switch, Goto and Labels.
2.05 Loop statements.
3 Arrays 12
What is an Array?, Declaring an Array, Initializing an Array. One dimensional
arrays: Array manipulation;Finding the largest/smallest element in array;
Searching & Sorting of element from an array; Decalring & Initilisation of Two
dimensional arrays, Addition/Multiplication of two matrices, Transpose of a
square matrix; Null terminated strings as array of characters.
4 Strings 4
Introduciton, Declaring & Initialising string variables, Reading & writing strings
from variables, Arithmetic operations & chracters, Putting strings together,
Comparision of two strings, String handling functions
5
Structures & Unions 8
Basic of Structures, Structures variables, initialization, structure assignment,
nested structure, structures and arrays: arrays of structures,Unions, Size of
structures, Bit fields
6 Functions 8
Definition of Functions, Standard Library of C functions, Prototype of a function:
Formal parameter list, Return Type, Function call, Block structure, Passing
arguments to a Function: call by value, arrays as function arguments, Structure
and functions
7 Pre-Processors 4
Introduction, Macro substituion, File inclusion
General Objectives
- Comprehend the different operators.
- Understand the basic input/output statements.
- Understand the control structures.
- Understand the arrays concept.
- Solve simple problems using arrays.
- Know the user defined functions.
- Design a function to solve a problem.
Understand the structure and union concept.
Appairse different string functions
Understand Preprocessor statement
Specific Objectives
- List the character set.
- Define the following
keyword, variable, constants.
- Describe the built-in data types.
- List the variables naming rules.
- Explain the arithmetic, relational, logical operators and expression.
- Discuss the precedence and order of evaluation.
- Describe the simple assignment & Basic input/output statements.
- Write simple C programs.
- List different types of control structures.
- Describe if, if-else, switch conditional statements.
- Explain for, while, do-while loop control structure.
- Define break, continue, goto, labels.
- Define array, string.
- Classify array.
- Discuss insertion, deletion, sorting, searching operations on single
dimensional array.
- Explain addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose operations on matrices.
- Define function.
- Describe function prototyping.
- List built in functions.
- Define formal, actual parameters.
- Describe block structure.
Explain call-by-value
Describe basics of structure & Unions
Restate structure variables, initialization, assignment.
Explain nested structures, structure & functions, structure & arrays.
Explain C Preprocessing statements
Text Books
Programming With 'C' By Dr. M A Jayaram & D S Rajendra Prasad, Sapna
1 Publications
Reference Books
Title/Publisher Author
1 Programming with ANSI-C, Fourth Edition, Tata Mcgraw Hill. E. Balaguruswami
2 Let us C, BPB Publication, New Delhi. Yashwant Kanetkar
3 Programming with C, Second Edition, Tata Mcgrawhill, 2000. Byron Gottfried
4 Programming with ANSI & Turbo C, First Edition, 2002, Pearson Education. A. Kamthane
5 Basics of Computers and Applications with C programming. Rajesh Hongal
6 Computer Concepts and C programming P B Kottur
