Problem Solving Using C UOP BBA(CA ) First Sem

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‘C’ Fundamentals

History of ‘C’ language.

Application areas.

Structure of a ‘C’ program.

‘C’ Program development life cycle.

Function as building blocks.

‘C’ tokens

Character set, Keywords, Identifiers

Variables, Constants (character, integer, float, string, escape sequences, enumeration constant).

Data Types (Built-in and user defined data types).

Operators, Expressions, types of operators, Operator precedence and Order of evaluation.

Character input and output.

String input and output.

Formatted input and output

Control Structures

Decision making structures: - if, if-else, switch and conditional operator.

Loop control structures: - while do while, for.

Use of break and continue.

Nested structures.

Unconditional branching (goto statement)

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Functions

Concept of function, Advantages of Modular design.

Standard library functions.

User defined functions: - declaration, definition, function call, parameter passing (by value), return statement.

Recursive functions.

Scope of variables and Storage classes.

Arrays

Concept of array.

Types of Arrays – One, Two and Multidimensional array.

Array Operations - declaration, initialization, accessing array elements.

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