CE143: COMPUTER CONCEPTS AND PROGRAMMING

Credits and Hours:

Teaching Scheme Theory Practical Tutorial Total Credit

Hours/week 3 4 - 7
5
Marks 100 100 - 200

Pre-requisite courses:
● Students should know Basics of Computer. No prior Knowledge of Programming
is expected.

Outline of the Course:

Sr. Title of the unit Minimum number of
No. hours
1. Introduction to ‘C’ Language. 02
2. Constants, Variables & Data Types in ‘C’ 03
3. Operators and Expression in ‘C’ 03
4. Managing Input & Output Operations 01
5. Conditional Statements & Branching 03
6 Looping 03
7 Arrays 04
8 Character Arrays and Strings 05
9 User-Defined Function in ‘C’ 05
10 Structures and Unions 03
11 Pointers 06
12 File Management in ‘C’ 05
13 Dynamic Memory Allocation 02
Total hours (Theory) : 45
Total hours (Lab) : 60
Total hours : 105
Detailed Syllabus:

1 Introduction to ‘C’ language. 02 Hours 05%

Program, Software, Instruction, debugging, compilation and
execution of C Program, Difference between Header files &
library files, Compiler and Interpreter, Procedure Oriented
Language, Importance of C, Basic structure of C, Algorithms
& Flowchart.
2 Constants, Variables & Data Types in ‘C’ 03 Hours 06%
Character set, C tokens, Keywords & Identifiers , Data types ,
Constants, Variables, Declaration of Variables, Assigning
Values to Variables, Declaring a variable as Constant, Defining
Symbolic constants.
3 Operators and Expression in ‘C’ 03 Hours 06%
Classification of operators: Arithmetic, Relational, Logical,
Assignment, Increment / Decrement, Conditional, Bitwise,
Special Operators. Unary, Binary and Ternary Operators.
Arithmetic expression, Evaluation, Type conversion: Implicit
&Explicit, Precedence and Associativity, Various library
functions from maths.h.
4 Managing Input & Output Operations 01 Hours 02%
Reading a Character, Writing a Character, Various library
functions from ctype.h. Formatted Input, Formatted Output
5 Decision Making & Branching 03 Hours 06%
Decision making using simple if, if…else statement, nesting of
if…else, else…if Ladder. Switch statements, conditional
operator, goto statement.
6 Looping 03 Hours 08%
Need of looping, (pre-test) entry-controlled loop: while, for,
(post-test) exit-controlled loop: do…while, difference between
Counter- Controlled loops and Sentinel - controlled loops.
 Nesting of looping statements, use of break & continue, use of
if…else in loop, infinite loop.
7 Arrays 04 Hours 08%
Need of array, Declaration & Initialization of 1D array,
Programs of 1D. 2D array, Memory allocation of 1D and 2D
array, 2D array basic programs.
8 Character Arrays and Strings 05 Hours 10%
Difference of character array with numeric array and
importance of NULL character. Declaration, Initialization and
various input and output methods of string, formatted output of
string, arithmetic operations on characters. Various functions
of string.h: strlen, strcat, strcmp, strcpy, strrev, strstr, etc. Two
dimensional character array (table of strings).
9 User-Defined Function in ‘C’ 05 Hours 14%
Need of modularization, advantages, Introduction to user-
defined function, Function Prototype, Function Call, Function
Body. Call by value, Actual &Formal Arguments, return value,
Categories of functions, Nesting of Functions, Recursion.
Array as Function arguments, Storage Classes: Scope, Life of
a variable in ‘C’.
10 Structures and Union 03 Hours 08%
Need of user-defined data type, Structure definition,
Declaration and Initialization of variables, Array as member,
Array of structure variables. Structure within structure,
Structure as function arguments, Union.
11 Pointers 06 Hours 14%
Introduction to pointer, declaration & initialization, access
value using pointer, indirection (*) operator. Pointers in
expressions, scale factor, 1D-array and pointer, pointer with
strings, Array of pointers. Pointer as arguments in function,
Call by address, Functions returning pointers, Pointers and
structures, Chain of Pointers.
 12 File Management in ‘C’ 05 Hours 8%
Introduction, Defining and Opening a file, closing a file, modes
of file, read & write single character and integer to file, use of
fprintf and fscanf functions. Error handling functions, random
access of files using ftell, rewind, fseek, command line
argument.
13 Dynamic Memory Allocation 02 Hours 05%
Introduction, memory allocation process. Use of functions:
malloc ( ), calloc ( ), realloc ( ) and free ( ).

Course Outcome (COs):

At the end of the course, the students will be able to
CO1 Demonstrate problem solving skills by developing algorithms and drawing
flowcharts to solve simple problems, Understand the process of compiling and
executing a C program and recognize various C tokens and datatypes.
CO2 Understanding various programming constructs and applying it for the problems
given in hand.
CO3 Demonstrate the use of various data structures like array, file and structure.
CO4 Applying the concepts of top-down modular programing to decompose problem
and a program solution into smaller pieces and Analyse how length of the source
program can be reduced by using functions.
CO5 Evaluate how pointers are effective in handling arrays, functions and data tables
and how pointers support Dynamic memory management.
CO6 Develop C Programs using various methods described above to solve real-world
problems.

Course Articulation Matrix:

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO1 PO1 PO1 PSO PSO
0 1 2 1 2

CO 3 1 - - - - - 1 2 2 1 1 2 -
1
CO 3 3 2 - - - - - 1 - - 2 3 -
2
CO 3 2 2 - - - - - 1 - - 2 3 -
3
CO 3 3 3 - - - - - 2 - - 3 3 -
4
CO 3 3 3 - - - - - 2 - - 3 3 -
5
CO 3 3 3 - - - - - 2 - 1 3 3 -
6

Enter correlation levels 1, 2 or 3 as defined below:

1: Slight (Low) 2: Moderate (Medium) 3: Substantial (High)
If there is no correlation, put “-”

Recommended Study Material:

❖ Text book:
1. Programming in ANSI C, 8th Edition by E Balagurusamy, MGrawHill
2. Let us C, 16th Edition by Yashwant Kanetkar, BPB Publication
3. Programming in C , 2nd Edition by Pradeep Dey & Manas Ghosh

❖ Reference book:
1. Head First C by David Griffiths & Dawn Griffiths.
2. C How to program, 7/E by Deitel&Deitel, Prentice Hall
3. C: The Complete Reference by Herbert Schildt
4. Practical C Programming (Third Edition) by Steve Oualline
❖ Web material:
1. www.tutorials4u.com/c/
2. www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
3. www.howstuffworks.com/c.htm
4. http://www.programmingtutorials.com/c.aspx
5. http://www.physics.drexel.edu/courses/Comp_Phys/General/C_basics/
❖ Software:
1. Code::Blocks
2. Turbo C