The document outlines the course plan for Programming in C at Punjab College of Technical Education in Ludhiana, including topics to be covered such as fundamentals of C, control statements, functions, arrays, structures, pointers, and file handling, along with assignments, tests, references, and sample programs for students. It provides details on the teacher, course code, number of lectures and assignments, topics, schedule, assessments, references, and sample programs for practice.

1. PUNJAB COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, LUDHIANA
Name of Teacher: Swati Singhal (SSG) Subject Name: Programming in C
Email Id: swati.singhal84@yahoo.com Subject Code: BC-104 (N2)
Assignments: 3 Total Lectures: 40
Tests: 4 Revision Lectures: 4
Max. Marks 100
Internal Assessment 40
External Assessment 60
Instructions for Candidates
Candidates are required to attempt four questions from section B and the entire section A.
Use of non-programmable scientific calculator is allowed.
Fundamentals: Character set, Identifiers & Keywords, Data Types, constants, set,
constants, variables, expressions, statement, symbolic constants. Operations and
expressions: Arithmetic operators, unary operators, relational and logical operators,
assignment and conditional operators, and library functions.
Data input and output: Preliminaries, single character input, single character output,
entering input data, more about the scanf() function, writing output data, more about
printf function, the gets and puts function, interactive programming.
Control statements: Preliminaries, while, do-while and for statements. Nested loops, if
else, switch, break continue statement.
Functions: Brief overview, defining accessing function, passing perimeters to function,
specifying argument data types, function prototype and recursion.
Program structure: Storage classes, automatic, external, and static variables, more
about library functions.
Array: defining and processing an array, passing pointers to a function, pointer and one
dimensional arrays, operations on pointers, passing functions multidimensional arrays of
pointers, passing functions to the other functions, more about pointer declarations.
Structure And Unions: Defining and processing a structure, user defined data types,
structure and Pointers, passing structure to function, self-referential structures, unions.
Data files: Opening, closing, creating, and processing and unformatted data field.

2. C-programming applications: Sorting (Bubble sort, Selection sort), Searching (Binary
search, Linear Search).
REFERENCE:
1. E.Balaguruswamy Programming in ANSI ‘C’ (Tata McGraw
Hill)
2. Byron Gottorfried Schaum’s outline of programming with C (Tata McGraw
Hill)
3. Kerighan & Richie The C programming language (PHI Publication)
4. Lafore R. Object Oriented Programming (Galgotia)
5. Aaron M. Tannen Baum Data structures using C (PHI publication)

3. Punjab College of Technical Education, Ludhiana
Course Plan
Subject Name: Programming in C Subject BC-104(N2)
Code:
Teacher's Code: SSG No. of Tests: 4
No. of 40 No. of 4
Lect. Assignments
Lect. No Topic Assignment Test Status
1 Fundamentals : Computer
Languages, Compiler,
Assembler
2 Problem Solving with
Computers, Algorithms with
examples
3 Flow charts with examples
4 Program structure of a simple
C Program
5 Introduction to Character set,
Identifiers, Keywords, Data
Types
6 Constants, variables,
expressions.
7 Statement, symbolic constants
8 Operations and expressions:
Arithmetic operators, unary
operators, relational and logical
operators
9 Assignment and conditional test1
operators, and library
functions.

4. 10 Data input and output:
Preliminaries (printf,
scanf),Single character output,
entering input data, Writing
output data, gets and puts
function
11 Format Specifiers /Delimiters
and Escape Sequences
12 Interactive programming Assignment
(creating User Friendly 1
Programs)
13 Control statements:
Preliminaries
14 If statements
15 Test 2
if else if, Nested if else, ladder
if else statements
16 while, do-while statements
17 for statements, Nested loops
18 switch case Statement
19 break and continue statement
20 Functions: definition, uses,
types of functions(inbuilt, user
defined)
21 Predefined Functions: string
function, mathematical
functions
22 user defined function: defining,
calling and prototype of
function

5. 23 Passing parameters to function, Assignment
Specifying argument data types 2
24 Recursion
25 Storage classes, automatic,
external, and static variables
26 User defined data types: enum,
typedef
27 Array: Defining and test3
processing an array
28 Types of arrays : one and two
dimensional arrays
29 Array and Function
30 Introduction to pointers
31 Pointer and one dimensional
arrays
32 Pointer Arithmetic
33 Structure :Defining and Assignment
processing structure 3
34 Structure and pointers, passing
structure to function
35 Self-referential structures
36 Union: definition, uses, test4
difference b/w union and
structure
37 Introduction to data files:
Opening and Closing files
38 Creating and processing,
Unformatted data field

6. 39 C-programming
applications: Linear search,
Binary search
40 Bubble sort, Selection sort
Reference:
1 Yashwant Kanetkar “Let us C”
2. E.Balaguruswamy Programming in ANSI ‘C’ (Tata McGraw Hill)
3. Schaum’s series for data structure (Tata McGraw Hill)
Class Exercise

7. Simple calculations:
1. Write a program to print your name on screen.
2. Write a program to print addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
of two numbers.
3. Write a program to find the simple interest.
4. Write a program to print area of circle, rectangle and square.
Conditional:
5. Write a program to check whether a person can vote or not.
6. Program to show the use of conditional operator (Greatest among two
numbers)
7. Write a program to check whether the given number is positive or not.
8. Write a program to check whether a given year is leap or not.
Switch and Strings:
9. Program to use switch statement. Display Monday to Sunday:
10.Write a program for various operations on strings.
Loops:
11.Write a program to print table of tables.
12.Write a Program to print the EVEN numbers out of first 100 numbers.
13.Write a Program to Print the following:
a)
1
1 2
1 2 3
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5
b)
1

8. 2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5
c)
1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
14. Write a program to find the factorial of a number.
15.Accept a three digit number from the user and print it in reverse.
Arrays:
16.Write a program to enter a one dimensional array and print the
elements in reverse order.
17.Write a program to enter ‘n’ elements in one dimensional array and
find the average of all the elements.
18.Write a program to print the sum of the diagonal elements of a matrix.
19.Write a program to enter a two dimensional array and print it in
matrix form.
20.Write a program to find the addition of two matrices.
21.Write a program to print the transpose of a matrix.
Structure:
22. WAP to enter the database of student in structure and print it.
Pointers:
23.Write a program to illustrate the operations performed on pointers.
24.Write a program to swap two numbers by using call by value.
Functions:
25.Write a program to find the factorial of a number.

9. 26.Write a program to find the reverse of a given number.
27.Write a program to print the factorial of a number using recursion.
File Handling:
28.WAP to for file handling.

10. PROGRAMS FOR PRACTICAL FILE
Simple Calculations:
1. Program to convert temperature from degree centigrade to Fahrenheit:
2. Write a program to calculate the Gross salary of an employee.
Conditional :
3. Write a program to check whether the given number is even or odd
(By using conditional operator).
4. Write a program to print the largest of three numbers.
5. Write a Program to calculate the percentage of a student in 5 subjects
and then find his grade accordingly.
Switch and Strings:
6. Program to display arithmetic operator using switch case.
7. Write a program to check whether the entered string is palindrome or
not by using string functions.
Loops:
8. Write a program to find the sum of n natural numbers.
9. Write a Program to print the PRIME numbers out of first 100
numbers.
10.Write a Program to Print the Fibonacci series up to n numbers.
11.Write a program to check whether the entered number is Armstrong
Number or not.
12.Write a program to check whether the entered number is Palindrome
or not.

11. 13.Write a Program to Print the following:
1
1 2 1
1 2 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1
Arrays:
14.Write a program to print the multiplication of two matrices.
15.Write a program to search an element from an array using linear
search.
16. Write a program to search an element from an array using binary
search.
17. Write a program to sort the elements of an array using bubble sort.
18. Write a program to sort the elements of an array using selection sort
Structure:
19.WAP to enter the data of 5 students and print the data of the student
with highest percentage.
Pointers:
20.Write a program to swap two numbers by using call by reference.
Functions:
21.Write a program to print the Fibonacci series using recursion.
22.Write a program to pass the structure into a function and then print the
values.
23. Write a program to pass an array into a function and then print the
elements in reverse order.

12. File handling:
24.Write a program using file handling to read the data from one file and
then copy it to another file.