INTRODUCTION TO C PROGRAMMING (1BPLC205E/105E)

INTRODUCTION TO C PROGRAMMING

Course Code 1BPLC205E/105E 
Semester I/II
CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P: S) 3:02:0 
SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy (Theory and Lab hours) 40 + 24 (Practical) 
Total Marks 100
Credits 4 
Exam Hours 3
Examination type (SEE) Theory

Module-1

Flowchart and Algorithms: Art of Programming through Algorithms & Flowcharts.

Overview of C: History of C, Importance of C, Basic Structure of C Programs, Programming Style, Compiling

and Executing a ‘C’ Program.

Constants, Variables and Data Types: Character Set, C Tokens, Keywords and Identifiers, Constants,

Variables, Data Types, Declaration of Variables, Assigning Values to Variables, Defining Symbolic Constants,

Declaring a Variables as Constants and Volatile, Input/Output Statements in C.

Textbook: Chapter 1. 6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, Chapter 3.2 to 3.14, Chapter 5.1 to 5.5

Number of Hours: 8

Module-2

Operators: Introduction to Operators, Arithmetic Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators,

Assignment Operators, Increment and Decrement Operators, Conditional Operators, Precedence of

Arithmetic Operators.

Decision Making, Branching, Looping: Introduction, Decision Making with IF Statement, Simple IF

Statement, The IF..ELSE Statement, Nesting of IF..ELSE Statements, The ELSE IF Ladder, The Switch

Statement, The ?: Operator, The GOTO Statement, WHILE, DO, FOR, Jumps in LOOPS.

Textbook: Chapter 4.1 to 4.7, 4.12, Chapter 6.1 to 6.9, Chapter 7.1 to 7.5 

Number of Hours: 8

Module-3

Arrays and Strings: Introduction, Declaration and Initialization of One-dimensional and Two-Dimensional

Arrays, Declaring and Initializing String Variables, Example programs using arrays ,Reading Strings from

Terminal, Writing Strings to Screen, Arithmetic Operations on Characters, Comparison of Two Strings,

String-handling Functions.

Textbook: Chapter 8.1 to 8.6, Chapter 9.2 to 9.5, 9.7, 9.8   Number of Hours: 8

Module-4

User-defined Functions: Introduction, Need for User-defined Functions, A Multi-functional Program,

Elements of User-defined Functions, Definition of Function, Return Values and their Types, Function Calls,

Function Declaration, No Arguments and no Return Values, Arguments but no Return Values, Nesting of Functions.

Textbook: Chapter 10.1 to 10.8, 10.10 to 10.14

Number of Hours:8

Module-5

Structures and Pointers: Introduction, Defining a Structure, Declaring and Accessing Structure Variables and

Members, Structure Initialization, Copying and Comparing Structure Variables, Array of Structures, Arrays

within Structures.

Pointers: Introduction, Understanding Pointers, Accessing the Address of Variable, Declaring pointer

variables, initialization of pointers, accessing variables through its pointer.

Textbook: Chapter 11.1 to 11.6, 11.8, 11.19, Chapter 12.1 to 12.6

Number of Hours:8

PRACTICAL COMPONENT OF IPCC

1. Develop a program to calculate the temperature converter from degree to Fahrenheit.

2. Develop a program to find the roots of quadratic equations.

3. Develop a program to find whether a given number is prime or not.

4. Develop a program to find key elements in an array using linear search.

5. Given age and gender of a person, develop a program to categorise senior citizen (male & female).

6. Generate Floyd’s triangle for given rows.

7. Develop a program to find the transpose of a matrix.

8. Develop a program to concatenate two strings, find length of a string and copy one string to other

using string operations.

9. Develop a modular program to find GCD and LCM of given numbers.

10. Develop a program to declare the structure of employees and display the employee records with

higher salary among two employees.

11. Develop a program to add two numbers using the pointers to the variables.

12. Develop a program to find the sum of digits of a given number.

13. Develop a program to perform Matrix Multiplication.

14. Develop a program to create an array of structures to store book details and check whether a specific

book, as requested by the user, is available or not.

Suggested Learning Resources: 

Textbooks:

1. Programming in ANSI C, 9e, E Balaguruswamy, Tata McGraw Hill Education.

Reference books / Manuals:

1. PROGRAMMING IN C, Reema Thareja, Oxford University, Third Edition, 2023.

2. The ‘C’ Programming Language, Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, Second Edition, Prentice

Hall of India, 2015