Introduction to C

Goal:

This course is designed to aim at imparting a basic level C programming.

Pre-requisites:

It is expected that the person has knowledge of solving class-12 level mathematics and user level experience of computer application.

Prepares for:

Computer new learners

Audience:

Any graduate students or IT professional

Duration:

2 Months (40 hours)

Course Outline:

Syllabus of C:

Unit 1: Introduction to Programming:

• Introduction to Languages: High Level, Low Level, Middle Language
• Introduction to Interpreter , Compiler & Translator..
• Basic concepts of Procedure Programming Language.

Unit 2: Basic Concepts of C:

• Introduction to Character set, Variables, Constants, Keywords, Comments.
• Data types: Basic, User-Defined & Derived Data Types.
• Operators in C : Assignment Operators, Arithmetic Operators, Increment and Decrement Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators, Bitwise Operators, Conditional Operators.
• Decision making: if – else, nested if else, switch, break and continue.
• Loops in C: while, for, do while, nested loops

Unit 3 : Functions & Pointers:

• Introduction of Main function.
• Function Prototypes- Built in functions and user defined functions, Default Arguments.
• Passing arguments to functions through Call by reference and Call by value.
• Pointers: Introduction to Pointers, pointers in function.
• Recursion

Unit 4: Preprocesser & Storage Class:

• Features of C Preprocesser.
• Macro Expansion: Macro with arguments. Macros versus Functions
• File Inclusion.
• Directives in C : #if, #elif, #undef, #pragma.
• Build Process in C: Preprocessing, compilation, Assembling & Linking.
• Introduction to Storage class
• Types of Storage Classes: Automatic , Register , Static & External Storage Class.

Unit 5:Array & Strings:

• Arrays : Introduction to arrays, arrays in functions, 2-D arrays , Multidimensional arrays.
• Array to Functions, Pointers to an array.
• String : Introduction to string, Standard Type String Functions: strlen(), strcpy(), strcat(), strcmp().
• Pointer & String, Array of pointers to String.
• Limitations of Array of pointers to Strings.

Unit 6:Input/Output Functions:

• Introduction to Input /Output Functions.
• Types of Input/Output Functions: Console & File I/O Functions.
• Console I/O Functions: Formatted & Unformatted Functions.( getch(), getche(), gets(), getchar(), putch(), puts(), putchar(), puts())
• File I/O Functions & File Operations.

Unit 7: Structures:

• Introduction to Structures.
• Array of Structures, Additional Features of Structures & Uses of Structure