1. PUNJAB COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, LUDHIANA
COURSE PLAN
Name of Teacher: Sandeepjit Kaur Subject Name: Programming in ‘C’
Email Id: sandeepjit@pcte.edu.in 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.

2. 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)

3. Punjab College of Technical Education -
Course Plan
Subject Name: Programming in 'C' Subject BC-104(N2)
Code:
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
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 elseif, nested ifelse, ladder
ifelse statements
16 While, do-while statements
17 For statements, Nested loops
18 Switch Case Statement
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

5. 23 Passing perimeters 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 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 Assignment
processing structure 3
34 Structure and pointers, passing
structure to function
35 Self-referential structures
36 Union: definition, test4
uses,difference b/w union and
structure
37 Introduction of 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)

7. 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
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?

8. 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
1 2 1
1 2 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 3 2 1
Ques 6. What is the difference between while and do-while statement?

9. 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.

10. Presentation Topics
1. Algorithms and Flowcharts
2. Fundamentals: Character set, Identifiers & Keywords, Data Types,
constants, set, constants, variables, expressions, statement, symbolic
constants
3. Operations and expressions: Arithmetic operators, unary operators,
relational and logical operators, assignment and conditional operators,
4. Library functions
5. Data input and output: Preliminaries, single character input, single
character output, entering input data, more about the scanf function, writing
output data,
6. String functions
7. If else statements
8. While, do-while and for statements
9. Nested loops
10. Switch,
11. Break continue statement
12. Functions
13. Recursion.
14. Storage classes: automatic, external, and static variables
15. Array: one, two and multi dimensional array.
16. Passing pointers to a function, pointer and one dimensional arrays
17. Passing functions multidimensional arrays of pointers, passing functions to
the other functions
18. Structure And Unions: Defining and processing a structure, user defined
data types, structure and Pointers, passing structure to function, self-
referential structures, unions.
19. Data files: Opening, closing, creating, and processing and unformatted data
field.
20. Sorting (Bubble sort, Selection sort), Searching (Binary search, Linear
Search).