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Tech / I Semester R-20 Syllabus
C Programming for Problem Solving
Course Outcomes
The student will be able to
1. Analyze a computational problem and develop an algorithm/flowchart to find its solution
2. Develop C programs with branching and looping statements, which uses Arithmetic, Logical, Relational or
Bitwise operators.
3. Divide a given computational problem into a number of modules and develop C program with arrays.
4. Write C programs which use pointers for array processing and parameter passing
5. Develop C programs with structure or union and files for storing the data to be processed.
UNIT-I Contact Hours : 10
INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING : What is computer, Block diagram of Computer, Development
of Computer languages, Translators, Computer Codes, Computer Arithmetic, Programming Techniques,
Algorithm, Flowchart
BASICS OF C : History of C, Character Set, Identifiers, Keywords, Tokens, Variables, constants, operators,
Data types, expressions, expression evaluation, Type conversion, operator precedence and associativity, C
program structure.
UNIT-II Contact Hours : 8
CONSOLE I/O OPERATIONS : Formatted I/O - printf & scanf, Unformatted I/O functions.
CONTROL FLOW STATEMENTS: Branching Statements - if, if – else, switch. Looping statements-
while, do – while, for, nested for. Unconditional Statements - break, continue, goto, exit.
UNIT-III Contact Hours : 12
FUNCTIONS: Introduction to Functions, Types of Function, Function prototypes, parameter passing
techniques, Scope of variables, Storage classes, Recursion
ARRAYS : Array declaration , initialization and Accessing, Types of Arrays : 1-D and 2-D Arrays,
Arrays as Function Arguments
UNIT-IV Contact Hours : 8
STRINGS: Reading String from terminal, Writing string to Screen, String Handling Functions.
POINTERS: Pointer Declaration, Initialization and Accessing , Types of Pointers, Pointer Arithmetic,
Dynamic memory allocation
UNIT-V Contact Hours : 10
STRUCTURE : Introduction to structures, Definition of structure , declaration of structure variable,
accessing of structure members, array of structures, Union, enum, bit fileds, typedef
FILES : Introduction to Files, Types of File, File Modes, Writing and Reading Files, File management
I/O functions
Text books
Programming in ANSI C by E. Balguruswamy, Tata Mc-Graw Hill
Programming for Problem Solving, Behrouz A. Forouzan, Richard F.Gilberg, CENGAGE.
Reference Books
1. The ‘C’ programming language by Kernighan and Ritchie, Prentice Hall
2. Computer Programming in ‘C’ by V. Rajaraman , Prentice Hall
3. Programming and Problem Solving by M. Sprankle, Pearson Education
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4. How to solve it by Computer by R.G. Dromey, Pearson Education
Online Practice and Reference Material
• http://www2.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c/
Notes on C programming by University of Strathclyde Computer Centre. This tutorial was awarded the
NetGuide Gold Award during the 1990s.
•http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/C_%28programming_language%29.html
This site contains notes on C programming from Princeton University, USA. These are very useful for
students who are learning C as their first programming Language.
• http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/Computer.html
Online reference material on Computers and Programming from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
USA
• http://projecteuler.net/
Collection of mathematical problems which make you use programming skills
