C Programming

Introduction to Prog ramming Language, Programming Approach: Top down and Bottom up Approach, Structured Programming, History of C, Algorithms, Pseudocode and Flowchart, Coding, Compilation and Execution, Structure of C program, Debugging.

C Standards, C Character Set, C Tokens, Escape sequence, Delimiters, Variables, Data types, Constants/ Literals, Expressions, Statements and Comments, Library Functions, Preprocessor Directives.

Input/output operations, Conversion Specifications, Formatted I/O, and unformatted I/O.

Arithmetic operator, Relational operator, Boolean operator, Assignment Operator, Ternary operator, Bitwise operator, In crement or Decrement operator, Conditional operator, Special Operators (sizeof operator), Evaluation of Expression, Operator Precedence and Associativity, Type Conversion

Introduction, Conditional Stateme nts, Decision Making and Branching, Decision Making and Looping, Exit function, Break and Continue.

Introduction to Array, Types of Array (Single Dimensional and Multidimensional), Declaration and Memory Representation of Array, Initialization of array, Character Array and Strings, Reading and Writing Strings, Null Character, String Library Functions.

Introduction of User defined functions, Library Functions vs. User defined functions, Function prototype, Function call, and Function Definition, Nested and Recursive Function, Function Arguments and Return Types, Passing Arrays to Function, Passing Strings to Function, Passing Arguments by Value, Passing Arguments by Address, Local and Global Variable, Scope visibility and lifetime of a variable.

Introduction to pointers, Advantages and disadvantages of pointer The & and * operator, Declaration of pointer, Pointer to Pointers (Chain of Pointers), Pointer Arithmetic, Pointers and Arrays, Pointers and Character Strings, Array of Pointers, Pointers as Function Arguments, Function Returning pointers, Pointers and Structures, Dynamic Memory Allocation .

Introduction, Declaration, Initialization, Array of structure, Passing structure to function, Passing array of structure to function, Nested Structure, Pointer to structure, Introduction to Union, Structure vs Union.

Concept of File, Types of file (Text files and Binary Files), modes of file, Opening and closing of File, Input Output Operations in File, Random access in File.

Concepts of Graphics, Graphics Initialization and Modes, Graphics Function

Enumerations, C Macros, Command Line Parameters, Storage classes in C. Laboratory Works: Laboratory works should be done covering all the topics mentioned above. Each topic must be followed by a practical session.