Computer Programming

Syllabus

Module 1: (10 hours):

Data Types, Operators and Expressions: Variables and constants - declarations - arithmetic and logical operators – Assignment operator – Input/Output. Control Flow: Statements and blocks – if-else, switch, while, for and do-while statements – break and continue – goto and labels.

Module 2: (08 hours):

Functions and Program structure: Basics of functions, Parameter passing – scope rules – recursion

Module 3: (08 hours):

Aggregate data types: Single and multidimensional arrays, structures and unions – Pointers to arrays and structures – passing arrays and pointers as arguments to functions.

References:

1. B.S. Gottfried, Programming with C (Schaum's Outline Series), 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill,1996.
2. B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie, The C Programming LanguageS, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1988
3. W. Kernighan, The Practice of Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1999.