CERTIFICATE IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING (C) ( M-CCP007 )

Syllabus Coverage:

Programming Language C:

Overview of C: History of C, Importance of C, Structure of a C Program.

Elements of C: C character set, identifiers and keywords, Data types, Constants and Variables, Assignment statement, Symbolic constant.

Input/output: Unformatted & formatted I/O function in C, Input functions viz. scanf(), getch(), getche(), getchar(), gets(), output functions viz. printf(), putch(), putchar(), puts().

Operators & Expression: Arithmetic, relational, logical, bitwise, unary, assignment, conditional

Operators and special operators. Arithmetic expressions, evaluation of arithmetic expression, type

Casting and conversion, operator hierarchy & associability.

Decision making & branching: Decision making with IF statement, IF-ELSE statement, Nested IF statement, ELSE-IF ladder, switch statement, goto statement.

Looping: For, while, and do-while loop, jumps in loops, break, continue statement.

Functions: Definition, prototype, passing parameters, recursion.

Storage classes in C: auto, extern, register and static storage class, their scope, storage, & lifetime.

Arrays: Definition, initialization, processing an array, passing arrays to functions, Strings & arrays.

Strings in ‘C’: Introduction, Declaration and initialization of string, String I/O, Array of strings, String manipulation functions: String length, copy, compare, concatenate, search for a substring.

Structure and Union: Introduction, Features of structures, Declaration and initialization of structures, Structure within structure, Array of structures, Structure and functions. Union: Introduction, Union of structures. Typedef, Enumerations.

Pointers: Introduction, Pointer variables, Pointer operators, Pointer assignment, Pointer conversions, Pointer arithmetic, Pointer comparison, Pointers and arrays, Pointers and functions, Pointers and strings, Pointer to pointer, dynamic allocation using pointers malloc(), calloc(), reallot().

Files: Introduction, File types, File operations, File I/O, Structure Read and write in a file, Errors in file handling, Random-access I/O in files.

Preprocessor: Introduction, #define, macros, macro versus functions, #include, Conditional Compilation directives, undefining a macro. Command line arguments: defining and using

Command line arguments.

Computer Lab Practical

Eligibility: 10^th Pass