Course Code: DSC-202: Computer Paper-IV
Course Title: Programming in ‘C’ Part-II

1 Functions and Pointer

• Definition, declaration, prototype of function
• Local and global variable,
• User defined functions
• Recursion, Storage classes.
• Pointer Definition and Declaration,
• Pointer Initialization,
• Pointer arithmetic.
• Arrays of Pointers,
• Pointers and One andtwo dimensional Arrays,
• Call by value and call by reference
• Dynamic Memory Allocation

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2 Structures, Union and File Handling

• Definition and declaration of structure,
• Nested Structure, Array of structures, structure pointer,
• passing structure to function, self- referential structure,
• sizeof() and typedef Keyword.
• Definition and declaration, of union
• Difference between Structure and Union
• Concept of File,Text and binary mode files, Opening and closing
files-fopen() and fclose(),
• File opening mode- read, write, append ,reading and writing
character and string function( getc(), putc() , getw() , putw()
,gets(),puts()), Formatted input- scanf(), sscanf(), fscanf(), fread(),
Formatted output- printf(),sprintf(), fprintf(), fwrite().
• Functions-fseek(), ftell(), fflush(), fclose(), rewind().

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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