Computer Programming

Introduction, Importance of C, Basic Structure of C Program, Executing a C Program, Character Set, C Tokens, Keywords, Identifiers, Constants and Variables, Data Types, Operators, Basic Input and Output Operations, Expressions and Precedence of Operators, In-built Functions.

Introduction, Decision Making with If Statement, Simple If Statement, Nesting of If...Else Statements, Else If Ladder, ?: Operator, Goto Statement, While Statement, Do Statement, For Statement, Jumps in Loops, Concise Test Expressions.

Introduction to Arrays, One-Dimensional Arrays, Two-Dimensional Arrays, Multi-Dimensional Arrays, Example Programs Using Arrays.

Declaring and Initializing String Variables, Reading Strings from Terminal, Writing Strings to Screen, Arithmetic Operations on Characters, String-handling Functions, Example Programs (with and without using built-in string functions).

Introduction to Functions, Need for User-Defined Functions, Multi-Function Program, Elements of User-Defined Functions, Definition of Functions, Return Values and their Types, Function Calls, Function Declaration, Category of Functions, Recursion. Introduction to Pointers, Declaring Pointer Variables, Initialization of Pointer Variables, Accessing a Variable through its Pointer, Pointer Expressions, Pointer Increments, and Scale Factor.

Defining a Structure, Declaring Structure Variables, Accessing Structure Members, Structure Initialization, Arrays of Structures, Unions and Structures. Introduction to Files, Defining and Opening a File, Closing a File, Input/Output and Error Handling on Files.

E. Balaguruswamy, "Programming in ANSI C", McGraw-Hill.