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

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Allied III - Programming in 'C'

UNIT - 1:

Introduction to C, variables, Data types - Declarations, Type conversions, increment and decrement operators, Bitwise, Logical and Assignment operators.

UNIT - 2:

Expression and Conditional Expressions, Control structures, If-Else, SWITCH, WHILE, FOR and DO WHILE Loop structures. Break continue, GO o's and Label Statements. Function, function returning, Non-integers. Function arguments - Static and register variables.

UNIT - 3:

Arrays and. Strings - Array Declaration Multi dimensional Arrays Strings / Character Arays, Array initialization - Pointers and Addresses. Pointers and Arrays - Pointer to functiois.

UNIT - 4:

Structures and functions, Arrays of structures, Fields, Unions - type definiton standard input and output - formatted output - output - Access to the standard library.

UNIT - 5:

File Access, File handling in C - File discriptions - Error handling - 'Low level i/o - Read and Write'. Open, Create, Close, Unlink - Random Access - seek and 1 seek.

Books for Study:

Balagurusamy (1992): Programming in C

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:

Byron, S. Gottfried (1990): Programming with C. Schaum's outline series, McGraw Hill, International edition.
Bruce, H.Hunter: Introduction to 'C'
Jayasri, J. (1993): The 'C' language trainees with C graphics and C++, New Age International Pvt. Ltd. Publishers, Madras.
Structures and functions, Arrays of structures, Fields, Unions - type definition standard input and output - formatted output - output - Access to the standard library.