UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
Bachelor in Computer Applications (BCA)
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester II - BCA108 - Programming in C

Lecturer/Lab Hours per Week: 6
Duration: 3 hrs
Max Makrs: 100
Credit: 4

Unit - I

C fundamentals Character set - Identifier and keywords - data types - constants - Variables - Declarations - Expressions - Statements - Arithmetic, Unary, Relational and logical , Assignment and Conditional Operators - Library functions.

Unit - II

Data input output functions - Simple C programs - Flow of control - if, if-else, while, do-while, for loop, Nested control structures - Switch, break and continue, go to statements - Comma operator.

Unit - III

Functions -Definition - proto-types - Passing arguments - Recursions. Storage Classes - AutOmatic, External, Static, Register Variables - Multi-file programs.

Unit - IV

Arrays - Defming and Processing - Passing arrays to functions - Multi-dimension arrays - Arrays and String. Structures - User defined data types - Passing structures to functions - Self-referential structures - Unions - Bit wise operations.

Unit - V

Pointers - Declarations - Passing pointers to Functions - Operation in Pointers - Pointer and Arrays - Arrays of Pointers - Structures and Pointers - Files: Creating, Processing ,Opening and Closing a data file.

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