Syllabus Of C Language
Code No.: MCA 103 L T C
Paper: Programming in C 3 1 4
INSTRUCTIONS TO PAPER SETTERS:
1. Question No. 1 should be compulsory and cover the entire
syllabus. There should be 10 questions
of short answer type of 2 marks each, having at least 2 questions
from each unit.
2. Apart from Question No. 1, rest of the paper shall consist of
four units as per the syllabus. Every
unit should have two questions to evaluate analytical/technical
skills of candidate. However,
student may be asked to attempt only 1 question from each unit.
Each question should be 10 marks
including subparts, if any.
OBJECTIVES : After covering the
core C in about 25 lectures the course shall aim to aquaint
the students about advanced features of the language the following
features are listed as
suggested guideline for the teacher.
· Passing by value and pass by reference
· Difference between array names and pointers
· Allocating memory over the heap to two dimesional array ( Matrices
application could
be taken as a case study)
· Pointer and pointer operations( Linked lists , doubly linked lists
circular linked lists can
be taken as a case study
· Pointers to functions and call back functions
· Bitwise operations and a case based upon these operations
· MACROs and their pitfalls
· Final case study could be an application making extensive handling
of binary files.
PRE-REQUISTE:
· Basic Programming
UNIT- I
Introduction: GCC, Using MAKE Utility, GDB, C Basics: History of C, Characteristics of C, C
Program
Structure, Variables, Defining Global Variables, Printing Out and Inputting Variables,
Constants, Arithmetic Operations, Comparison Operators, Logical Operators, Order of
Precedence, Conditionals (The if statement , The ? operator, The switch statement) Looping and
Iteration
(The for statement, The while statement, The do-while statement, break and continue)
Arrays
and Strings (Single and
Multi-dimensional Arrays, Strings) Functions (Function
Prototyping, passing parameters, returning values, recursion) Storage classes
(auto, extern, static,
register)
[No. of Hrs. : 10 Hrs]
UNIT-II
Further Data Types: Defining New Data Types, Structures, Unions, Type-Casting, Enumerated
Types, Low Level Operators and Bit Fields (Bitwise Operators, Bit Fields)
Pointers: Pointers arithmetic and Arrays, const
pointers, void pointers, near, far and huge
pointers
Dynamic Memory Allocation and Dynamic Structures: ( malloc, calloc and realloc ; sizeof,
free,
introduction to Linked Lists and dynamic
2- dimensional arrays)
Advanced Pointer Topics:
(Pointers to Pointers, Pointer to array, Array of pointers, Command
line
input, Pointers to a Function, Implementing Callbacks) [No. of Hrs. : 12 Hrs]
UNIT -III
The C Preprocessor: (#define, #undef, #include, #if -- Conditional inclusion, Other Preprocessor
Commands) C, Linux and
Standard Libraries: (Advantages of using Linux with C, Using
10
Linux
System Calls and Library Functions) Integer Functions, Random Number, String
Conversion,
Searching and Sorting: <stdlib.h> Mathematics: <math.h> (Math Functions, Math
Constants), Input and Output (I/O):stdio.h Reporting
Errors (perror(), errno, exit() ) Streams
(Predefined Streams, Redirection) Basic I/O (Formatted I/O, printf, scanf ), String Handling:
<string.h>
(Basic String Handling Functions and safety issues, String Searching), Character
conversions
and testing: ctype.h, Files Character and Line Based
I/O, Formatted I/O, Block I/O,
File
Positioning, Status Functions, Deletion and Renaming, Temporary Files
[No. of Hrs. : 11 Hrs]
UNIT -IV
File Accessibility and Directories (access, stat, chmod, chown …, chdir, chroot…), Process
Control: (Running Linux Commands from C, fork(), the exec family, wait(), exit() ), Thread
creation-a
simple implementation. [No.
of Hrs: 09 Hrs]
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Yashwant Kanetkar, “Let us C”, BPB Publications,
2002.
2. Mark Mitchell, Jeffrey Oldham, and Alex Samuel, “Advanced Linux Programming”,
New
Riders Publishing, 2001.
3. B.
Kernighan and D. Ritchie, “The ANSI C Programming Language”, PHI., 2000
REFERENECES:
1. Yashwant Kanetkar, “Pointers in C”, BPB
Publications, 2002.
2. Paul Deitel and Harvey Dietel, “How to Program”,
PHI, 6th Ed., 2010.
3. Behrouz A. Forouzan and Richard F. Gilberg,
“Computer Science A Structured
Programming
Approach Using C”, PHI, 3rd Ed., 2007.
4. Jeri R. Hanly and Elliot B. Koffman, “Problem
Solving and Programming in C”, Pearson,
5th Ed. 2007.
5. Rama N. Reddy and Carol A. Ziegler, “C
Programming for Scientist and Engineers with Applications”,
Jones and Bartlet, 2010.
Assignment
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