Course Code: DSC-102: Computer paper-II
Course Title: Programming in ‘C’ Part-I

Unit 1 Planning the Computer Program

• Concept of Problem solving, Problem definition, problem analysis,
Algorithms and flow chart, Debugging, Types of errors in programming,
Documentation,
• Basics of Linux Operating System(Ubuntu) and ‘C’ programming
language
• Introduction to GCC Compiler,
• Data Types, Variable Declaration, Input/output Statement, Built-In
Standard Library, Nitty-Gritty of Program, C Program Structure, Vim
Editor, Whittling the First ‘c’ Program, Compilation and Execution
Program, Format Specifiers, Escape Sequences.
• Branching Statements -Introduction, if statement, if-else statement,
Nested If-else,Switch case statement.

Unit 2 Looping Statements and Array
• Definition of Loop.
• Types of looping statement-(for, while, do—while)
• Difference between while loop and do—while Loop,
• Loop control Statement (break, continue),.
• Infinite Loop.
• Definition and declaration of array.
• Features of Array
• Initialization of array
• Memory representation of array.
• Types of Arrays
• Single Dimensional Array,
• Two Dimensional Array,
• String Functions- Predefined

Reference Books

1. The C Programming Language - By Brian W Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
2. C programming in an open source paradigm:– By R. K. Kamat, K . S. Oza, S.R. Patil
3. The GNU C Programming Tutorial ‐By Mark Burgess
4. Let us C- By Yashwant Kanetkar