The document outlines the course plan for the subject Programming in C with the subject code BC-104(N2) at Punjab College of Technical Education, Ludhiana. It includes details like the number of lectures (40), assignments (3), tests (4), topics to be covered such as fundamentals of C, control statements, functions, arrays, structures, unions, file handling, and sorting and searching algorithms. Reference books for the subject are also listed.

1. PUNJAB COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, LUDHIANA
COURSE PLAN
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,

2. structure and Pointers, passing structure to function, self-
referential structures, unions.
Data files: Opening, closing, creating, and processing
and unformatted data field.
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)
Punjab College of Technical Education -
Course Plan
Subject Name: Programming in 'C' Subject Code: BC-
104(N2)
Teacher's Code: SJ No. of Tests: 4
No. of 40 No. of 4
Lect. Assignments
Lect No Topic Assignment Test Date
1 Fundamentals of computer Language,
Compiler, assembler

3. 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 operators, and test1
library functions.
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 (creating User Assignment
Friendly Programs) 1
13 Control statements: Preliminaries
14 If statements
15 If elseif, nested ifelse, ladder ifelse Test 2
statements
16 While, do-while statements
17 For statements, Nested loops
18 Switch Case Statement

4. 19 Break and Continue statement
20 function: 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
23 Passing perimeters to function, Specifying Assignment
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 processing an array test3
28 Types of Array : one and two dimensional
arrays
29 Array and Function
30 Intro to pointers
31 Pointer and one dimensional arrays
32 Pointer Arithmetics
33 Structure :Defining and processing structure Assignment
3
34 Structure and pointers, passing structure to
function
35 Self-referential structures
36 Union: definition, uses,difference b/w union test4
and structure
37 Introduction of files:Opening and Closing
files
38 Creating, and processing,Unformatted data
field

5. 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)
Assignment No. 1
Date of delivery:
Date of submission:
Ques 1: Define the following terms:
a. variable
b. constant
c. keywords
d. difference between ‘+’ and ‘++’ operator
e. difference between ‘&’ and ‘&&’ operator
f. difference between ‘=’ and ‘==’ operator

6. Ques 2: Enumerate the operators available in ‘C’ language and
illustrate the use of conditional, unary minus, increment and &&
operator through a simple program.
Ques 3: What is an expression? What kind of information is
returned by an expression?
Ques 4: What do you understand by structured language? Why
‘C’ is called a structured language and middle level language?
Assignment No. 2
Date of delivery:
Date of submission:
Ques 1: Wap in ‘C’ to input 5 digits number from user and print
this number in reverse order?
Ques 2: Name the three different classes of statements in ‘C’.
describe the composition of each.
Ques 3: What the purpose of break statement? Within which
statements can the break statement can be included?
Ques 4: Write a recursive function to compute fibonacci series
upto 20 terms.
Ques 5: Write a program to print the following
1
121
12321
1234321

7. Ques 6.
What is the difference between while and do-while statement?
Assignment No. 3
Date of delivery:
Date of submission:
Ques 1: Assuming That The Data Consist Of 100 Positive Integers
In The Range Of 0 To 25, Write A Program In C That Prints The
Number Of Times Each Of The Integers Occurs In The Input?
Ques 2: Explain the difference between structure and union?
Ques 3: WAP to sort the elements of an array by using selection
sort and bubble sort.
Ques 4: WAP to search an element from an array by using binary
search.
Ques 5: WAP to multiply two matrices.