UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. Degree Course in Nutrition Food Service Management and Dietetics
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester IV - Allied Subject IV - Basic Computer Science and Applications

Number of Lectures: 4
Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 75
Credits: 4

Unit I

Introduction to programming - Efficiency of a language - Constituents of a language - Comparison of language - Data processing techniques - modes of data processing - Flowcharting techniques.

Unit II

C Fundamentals - Character set - Identifier and keywords - data types - constants - Variables - Declaration Expressions - Statements - Arthimetic, Unary, Relationals and logical, Assignment and conditional operators - Library functions.

Unit III

Data input / output functions - simple C programs - flow of control - Control structures - Switch, break and continue, go to statements - Comma operator.

Unit IV

Unit V

Pointers - Declarations - Passing pointers to functions operations in pointers - pointer and arrays - array of pointers - structures and pointers - Files Creating Processing, Opening and closing - Bit wise operation.

ALLIED PRACTICAL II

PROGRAMMES TO :

1. Find the area and circumference of a circle given the radius.

2. Find the simple and compound interest

3. Sort the given numbers and hence find the minimum and the maximum.

4. Find the sum of a general series

5. Find the exponential value using series

6. Find the cosine value using series

7. Find the sine value using series

8. String handling - to find the occurence of a particular character.

9. Find the occurence of a substring.

10. Count the number of characters, vowels, digits, etc.

11. Understand the concept of recursion - factorial and nor value.

12. String palindrome checking.

13. Understand the concepts of pointers - pass by value and pass by reference.

14. Matrix addition subtraction and multiplication using pointers.

15. Trace of a matrix using pointers.

Paper I

References Books:

1. M.M. Mano, Digital Logic and Computer Design, Prentice Hall of India, 1994.

2. M.M. Mano, Digital Design, 3^rd Ed., Peason Education, 2002.

3. G. Counter and A. Marquir, Microsoft Office 2000, BPB Pub. 1999.

4. M. Levine Yomg, Internet - The Complete Reference, TMH, 1999.

5. H. Hahn, Internet Complete reference, TMH Edition, 1996.

Paper II

References Books:

1. B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie. The C Programming Languages, 2^nd Edition PHI, 1988.

2. H. Schildt, C. The Complete Reference, 4^th Edition, TMH Edition, 2000.

3. Goltfried B.S, Programming with C, Second Edition, TMH Pub. Co. Ltd. New Delhi 1996.

4. Kanetkar Y., Letus C, BPB Pub., New Delhi 1999.