Introduction to Programming using C BCA First Semester

Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University Aligarh

Syllabus

Introduction to Programming using C

Paper Code: RB120102T

Unit-I

C basics: C character set, Identifiers and keywords, Data types, constants, variables and arrays, declarations, expressions statements, symbolic constants, compound statements, arithmetic operators, unary operators, relational and logical operators, assignment operators, conditional operators, bit operators.

Unit-II

Decision Control Structures: If Statement, If-else statement, Nested if (), If () ladder, Switch, case statement, Iterative statements: For loop, While loop, Do-while () loop, Conditional statements: Break, Continue, Storage Classes, Array: Declaration of an Array, Initialization of Array, Types of Array: Single Dimension Array, Two, Dimensional Array, Address Calculation of an Element of a 2-D Array

Unit-III

Functions: Library Functions, User Defined Functions, Function Declaration, Prototype Declaration, Types of Arguments: Actual Arguments, Formal Arguments, Function Definition, Passing Arrays as Parameters, Methods to Call a Function: Call by Value, Call by Reference.

Unit-IV

Pointers: Declaration of Pointer Variables, Pointer Arithmetic, Returning Multiple Output Values through a Function Strings. Structures, Unions, Array of Structures, Enumerations, File Handling: Opening a File, Closing a File, File, Opening Modes, Reading from and Writing to a File, Copying Content of an Existing File to another, Command Line Arguments, argc and argv Parameters, Pre-processor Directives.