BCA Semester I - Programming in C

UNIT – I

Introduction to Computers: Computer Systems, Computing Environments, Computer 

Languages, Creating and Running Programs, Software Development, Flow charts.

Number Systems: Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal

Introduction to C Language - Background, C Programs, Identifiers, Data Types, Variables, 

Constants, Input / Output Statements

Arithmetic Operators and Expressions: Evaluating Expressions, Precedence and Associativity

of Operators, Type Conversions.

UNIT-II

Conditional Control Statements: Bitwise Operators, Relational and Logical Operators, If, IfElse, Switch-Statement and Examples. Loop Control Statements: For, While, Do-While and 

Examples. Continue, Break and Goto statements

Functions: Function Basics, User-defined Functions, Inter Function Communication, Standard 

Functions, Methods of Parameter Passing. Recursion- Recursive Functions.

Storage Classes: Auto, Register, Static, Extern, Scope Rules, and Type Qualifiers.

UNIT – III

Preprocessors: Preprocessor Commands. Arrays - Concepts, Using Arrays in C, Inter-Function 

Communication, Array Applications, Two- Dimensional Arrays, Multidimensional Arrays, 

Linear and Binary Search, Selection and Bubble Sort.

UNIT - IV

Pointers - Introduction, Pointers for Inter-Function Communication, Pointers to Pointers, 

Compatibility, L-value and R-value, Arrays and Pointers, Pointer Arithmetic and Arrays, Passing 

an Array to a Function, Memory Allocation Functions, Array of Pointers, Programming 

Applications, Pointers to void, Pointers to Functions, Command-line Arguments.

Strings - Concepts, C Strings, String Input/Output Functions, Arrays of Strings, String 

Manipulation Functions.

UNIT - V

Structures: Definition and Initialization of Structures, Accessing Structures, Nested Structures, 

Arrays of Structures, Structures and Functions, Pointers to Structures, Self Referential 

Structures, Unions, Type Definition (typedef), Enumerated Types.

Input and Output: Introduction to Files, Modes of Files, Streams, Standard Library 

Input/Output Functions, Character Input/Output Functions.