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

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Allied Subject III - Basic Computer Science Education

Number of Lectures: 6
Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 75
Credits: 3

Theory 4 Hours
Practical 2 hrs. / Week

Unit I : Introduction to Computers - Generation - Data representation - Code conversionv

Unit II : Computer Peripherals - Input and Output devices - Online and Office devices

Unit III : Central Processor Unit - Architecture of a digital computer - Memory unit ALU - Control Unit.

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

Unit V : C Fundamentals - Character set - Identifier and keywords - data types - constants - Variables - Declarations - Expressions - Statements - Arthimetic, Unary, Relational and logical, Assignment and conditional operators - Library functions.

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

Unit VII : L Functions - Defining, accessing functions - Functions prototypes - passing arguments - Recursions - storage classes - Multi-file programms.

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

ALLIED PRACTICAL
BASIC COMPUTER EDUCATION
LIST OF PRACTICALS TO BE DONE IN C LANGUAGE

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.

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