UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN ELECTRONICS SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Semester IV - Paper VII - Programming in 'C'

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit-1

Fundamentals :Character set - Keywords - Identifiers - Data types - Constants Variables - Operators - Expression - Statements character I/O functions.

Unit-2

Decision Making Statements : if-else, while, do-while, for, switch, break, continue, goto statements. Functions Definitions - Arguments - Function prototype - Recursion - Library function.

Unit-3

Arrays : Array definition - Processing arrays - Passing array to a function - Multidimensional arrays - Strings - Storage classes - Multifile programs. Pointers : Pointer declaration - Pointers and arrays - Pointer operation - Passing pointers to a function - Passing function to a function.

Unit-4

Structures and Unions : Structure definition - Processing a structure - Structures and Pointers - Passing structures to a function - Self-referential structures - Unions. Data files : Opening, closing, creating, processing, data files - Register variables and bitwise operations - Command line parameters - C pre processors.

Unit-5

Programs : Writing Programs for Lagrange's interpolation formula, trapezoidal and Simpson's 1/3 rule of integration, Newton-Raphson method, Gauss-Seidal method, Runge-Kutta second order method and fitting a straight line.

Books for study and reference

1. Theory and Problems of programming with C - Schaum's series -Byron S.Gottfried, McGraw Hill International Book Co.,
2. Programming in ANSI C - E.Balagurusamy, Tata McGraw Hill
3. Programming with C - K.R.Venugopal and R.P. Sudep, Tata McGraw Hill
4. The C Programming Language - Kernighan and Ritchie
5. Mastering Turbo C - Stan Kelley, Bootle, BPB Publications
6. Let us C - Yashwant Kanetkar
7. Computer Oriented Numerical Methods - Rajaraman
8. Numerical Algorithms - Krishnamurthy and Sen