ADVANCE C PROGRAMMING

Syllabus

BBACA201T/ACP201T: Advance C Programming

Unit 1: Array, String and Pointers:  [Lectures 15]

1.1 Introduction to Array

1.1.1 Array Declarations,

1.1.2 Bounds Checking

1.2 Types:

1.2.1 Single Dimension,

1.2.2 Two Dimension

1.3 Arrays & Function

1.4 Introduction to String

1.4.1 Declaration

1.4.2 Definition

1.4.3 Initialization

1.4.4 Format Specifiers

1.5 Reading & Writing from & to Console

1.6 Strings & Pointers

1.6.1 Array of Strings & Array of Character Pointers

1.6.2 Predefined Functions, User Defined Functions

1.7 Introduction to Pointers

1.7.1 Declaration

1.7.2 Definition

1.7.3 Initialization & Use

1.7.4 Types of Pointers

1.7.5 Pointer Arithmetic

1.7.6 Multiple Indirection

1.7.7 Parameter Passing – Call by Value and Call by Reference

1.8 Pointer to Array

1.8.1 Array of Pointers

1.9 Functions & Pointers

1.9.1 Passing Pointer to Function

1.9.2 Returning Pointer from Function

1.10 Dynamic Memory Allocation malloc( ), calloc( ), free( ), realloc( ) functions

Unit 2: Structures [Lectures 15]

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Declaration

2.1.2 Definition

2.1.3 Initialization

2.2 Accessing Structure Members ( . operator)

2.3 Array of Structures

2.4 Pointers to Structures

2.4.1 Declaring Pointer to Structure

2.4.2 Accessing Structure Members

2.5 Structures & Functions

2.6 Passing Each Member of Structure As a Separate Argument

2.7 Passing Structure by Value / Address Nested Structures

2.8 Union

2.8.1 Declaration of Union Accessing Structure Members

2.9 Difference between Structures and Union Preprocessor and File Handling

2.10 Preprocessor Introduction

2.11 Format of Preprocessor Directives

2.12 File Inclusion Directives (#include), Macro Substitution Directives (#define), Nested Macros, Parameterized Macros.

2.13 File Handling Concept of Streams, Need

2.14 Types of Files, Operations on Text & Binary Files, Random Access File

2.15 Library Functions for File Handling – fopen, fclose, fgetc, fseek, fgets, fputcetc.