FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

First Year Bachelor of Engineering

Course Code: 102000110

Course Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING WITH C

Type of Course: Engineering Science Course

Course Objectives: Students will gain understanding of basics of computer, hardware, software,
and programming language Students will learn problem solving skills through C programming
language.

Teaching & Examination Scheme:

Contact hours per week Course Examination Marks (Maximum / Passing)
Credits Internal External
Lecture Tutorial Practical Total
Theory J/V/P* Theory J/V/P*
3 0 2 4 40 / 14 20 / 7 60 / 21 30 / 10 150 / 52
* J: Jury; V: Viva; P: Practical

Detailed Syllabus:
Sr. Contents Hours
1 Introduction to Computers and Programming: 5
Introduction to computer: Basic block diagram, Functions of various components
of computer, Concepts of Hardware and software, Types of software
Computer languages and programming: Concepts of Machine level, Assembly level
and high-level languages, Compiler and interpreter, Flowcharts and Algorithms
2 Fundamentals of C: 6
Features of C language, structure of C Program, comments, header files, data types,
constants and variables, operators, expressions, evaluation of expressions, type
conversion, precedence and associativity, I/O functions
3 Control structure in C: 8
Decision making and Branching: Simple if, if-Else, Nesting of if-else, Else If ladder,
Switch statement, The ? operator, goto statement
Decision making and Looping: while statement, do statement, for statement, Jumps
in loop, break and continue, Nesting of control structures
4 Array and String: 7
Concepts of array: One- and two-dimensional arrays, declaration and initialization,
operation on array, multidimensional arrays
Character array and string: declaration and initialization, operations on string,
Built-in string functions, table of strings
5 Functions and Recursion: 6
Concepts of user defined functions: function declaration, function definition,
function call, passing parameters, nesting of functions
Introduction to Recursion as a way of solving problems and examples

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 6 Structures and Unions: 4
Basics of structure, structure members, accessing structure members, nested
structures, array of structures, structure and functions, Introduction to Unions
7 Pointers and File Management: 4
Basics of pointers, pointer to pointer, pointer and array, pointer to array, array to
pointer, function returning pointer, structures and pointers
Introduction to file management and its functions

Suggested Specification table with Marks (Theory) (Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy):

Distribution of Theory Marks R: Remembering; U: Understanding; A: Application,
R U A N E C N: Analyze; E: Evaluate; C: Create
20% 30% 30% 20% 0% 0%
Note: This specification table shall be treated as a general guideline for students and teachers. The actual distribution of
marks in the question paper may vary slightly from above table.

Reference Books:
1 Programming in ANSI C, Eighth Edition, by E. Balagurusamy, McGraw Hill Education
2 Let Us C, by Yashavant Kanetkar, BPB Publications
3 Fundamentals of Computing and Programming in C, by Pradip Dey, Manas Ghosh, Oxford
University Press
4 How to Solve it by Computer, by R.G. Dromey, Pearson Education

Course Outcomes (CO):

Sr. Course Outcome Statements %weightage
CO-1 Formulate algorithm and/or flowchart for a given problem. 10
CO-2 Translate algorithm and/or flowchart into C program using correct 10
syntax and execute it.
CO-3 Write programs using control structures, arrays, functions, structures . 40
CO-4 Decompose a problem and formulate solutions using functions. 20
CO-5 Apply concepts of array, pointer, structure, functions, recursion and file 20
management to solve engineering and/or scientific problems.

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List of Practicals / Tutorials:

1 Write a C program to understand concepts of structure of C Program, scanf and printf.

Write a C Program to declare, assign, read and print values of variables of different
datatypes.
Write a program to that performs as calculator (addition, multiplication, division,
subtraction).
2 Write a program to understand concepts of other operators (bitwise, increment/decrement,
conditional, etc.).
Write a program to find area of square, rectangle, triangle and circle.
Write a program to calculate simple interest (i = (p*r*n)/100 ). Where i = Simple interest p
= Principal amount r = Rate of interest n = Number of years
3 Write a C program to enter a distance in to kilometre and convert it in to meter, feet, inches
and centimeter.
Write a program to compute Fahrenheit from centigrade (f=1.8*c +32)
Write a C program to read a number and check it is even or odd.
4 Write a C program to find that the accepted number is Negative, or Positive or Zero.
Write a program to read three numbers from keyboard and find out maximum out of these
three. (nested if else)
Write a C program to check whether the entered character is capital, small letter, digit or
any special character.
5 Write a program to read marks from keyboard and your program should display equivalent
grade according to following table (if else ladder)
Marks Grade
100 - 80 Distinction
79 - 60 First Class
59 - 40 Second Class
< 40 Fail

Write a C program demonstrate functionality of calculator using switch-case.

Write a C program to find factorial of a given number.
6 Write a program to reverse a number.
Write a program to generate first n number of Fibonacci series.
Write a C program to find the sum and average of different numbers which are accepted by
user as many as user wants.
Write a program to check whether the given number is prime or not.

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7 Write a program to evaluate the series 1^2+2^2+3^2+……+n^2
Write a C program to find 1+1/2!+1/3!+1/4!+.....+1/n!.
Write a C program to display following patterns using asterisk (*).
* * ****
** ** ***
*** *** **
**** **** *

Write a C program to display following patterns.

12345 AAAAA 1
2345 BBBB 01
345 CCC 101
45 DD 0101
5 E 10101

8 Write a program to read array of integers and print it in reverse order.

Write a program that adds two 1-dimensional array& store into third array.
Write a program to insert and delete an element to/from desired position in an array.
Write a program to sort a given array in ascending order. (use Bubble Sort algorithm)
9 Write a program for multiplication of two matrices.
Write a program to find length of string without using library function.
Write a program to concatenate two strings without using library function.
10 Write a program that reads a string and counts occurrences of a given character.
Write a program convert character into Toggle character.
Write a program that checks whether the string is palindrome or not using string library
function.
11 Write a C Program to demonstrate the use of inbuilt string functions.
Write a function power that computes x raised to the power y for integer x and y and
returns double type value.
Write a calculator program (add, subtract, multiply, divide). Prepare user defined function
for each functionality.
12 Write a program to find sum of elements of 1-D Array using Function.
Write a program that use user defined function swap() to interchange the value of two
variable.
Write a program to find factorial of a number using recursion.
Write a program to generate Fibonacci series using recursion.
13 Write a function which takes a two integer array as argument and give sum of these arrays.
Define a structure to enter enrolment number, name of student and marks of the student in
three subjects. Enter data for 5 students. Display grade cards of all students. Display student
who has top rank in the class.
Define a structure called cricket that will describe the following information:
Player name, Team name, Batting average
Declare an array player. Write a program to print name & team of those players
whose batting average is greater than given value.

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14 Write a program to demonstrate the concept of union.
Write a program using pointer and function to determine the length of string.
Write a program to demonstrate the concept of pointer.
Write a program to add elements of array using pointer.
15 Write a program to copy the content one file into another file.
Write a program to demonstrate ftell() and fseek() for file handling.
Write a program that compares two files and returns 0 if they are equal and 1 if they are
not.

Supplementary learning Material:

1 NPTEL course / tutorials
2 Vlabs.iitb.ac.in
3 Open online courses from www.coursera.org, www.udacity.com, etc.

Curriculum Revision:
Version: 1
Drafted on (Month-Year): Apr-20
Last Reviewed on (Month-Year): Jul-20
Next Review on (Month-Year): Apr-22

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