C Programming (PCC-CS306)

Credits:- 5

1 Introduction to C:
The Form of a C Program, The Library and Linking, Separate Compilation,Compiling a C Program, C's Memory Map; Expressions – The Basic Data Types, Modifying the Basic Types, Identifies Names, Variables, The Four C Scopes, Type Qualifiers-const, volatile, Storage Class Specifiers; Statements - Selection Statements, Iteration Statements, Jump Statements, Expression Statements, Block Statements.

2 Console I/O & Basics of ArrayandStrings
Console I/O: Reading and Writing Characters, Reading and Writing Strings, Formatted Console I/O, printf(), scanf(), Suppressing Input. Arrays and Strings- Two-Dimensional Arrays, Arrays of Strings, Multidimensional Arrays, Array Initialization, Variable- Length Arrays.

3 Functions:
The General Form of a Function, Understanding the Scope of a Function, Parameter passing, Passing arrays to functions, Function Arguments, argc and argv-Arguments to main(),The return Statement, What Does main( ) Return?, Recursion, Function Prototypes, Declaring Variable Length Parameter Lists, The inline Keyword.

4 Pointers:
What Are Pointers?, Pointer Variables, The Pointer 0perators, Pointer Expressions, Pointers and Arrays, Arrays of Pointers, Multiple Indirection, Initializing Pointers, Pointers to Functions and structures, C's Dynamic Allocation Functions, restrict-Qualified Pointers, Problems with Pointers.

5 Structures, Unions, Enumerations, and typedef :
Structures, Arrays of Structures, Passing Structures to Functions, Structure
Pointers, Arrays and Structures Within Structures, Unions, Bit-Fields, Enumerations, Using size of to Ensure Portability, typedef .

6 File I/O :
FileI/O,Standard C vs.UnixFileI/O,Streams and Files,File System Basics,fread() and fwrite(), fseek() and Random-Access I/O, fprintf( ) and fscanf(), The Standard Streams.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. C the Complete Reference by Herbert Schild (Tata McGraw Hill) 4thEdition.
2. The C Programming Language- Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie 2ndEdition.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Programming in ANSI C by E.Balaguruswamy.(TataMcGraw Hill)4thEdition.
2. Let Us C By Yashavant P. Kanetkar, 5thEdition.