Semester-First BCA 1002

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C  Programming

Fundamentals of C programming and Control Structures

• Introduction of C language - Basic structure  Naming conventions, Character Set, Identifiers, Keywords, ASCI code, Gcc compiler.

• Data types, Types of Data Types, Modifiers, Variables, Constants.

• Operators, Operator precedence.

• Input and Output operation: Single character input and output, formatted input and output

• Control Structures.

• Conditional statement & switch statement.

• Specific keywords goto, continue, break etc. 

• Looping statement - for, while, do & nested for statement.

Arrays and Functions

• Introduction of 1-D, 2-D and multi - Dimensional array.

• Why used and advantages/disadvantages.

• Arrays Declaration and Initialization.

• String manipulation - input/output arrays.

• String operations.

• Functions: Introduction, advantages of functions. 

• Function definition, function call.

• Actual and formal arguments. 

• local and global variables.

• function prototypes, types of functions.

• Recursive functions, arrays and functions.

Searching and Sorting

• Selection sort.

• Bubble sort.

• Insertion sort.

• Quick sort.

• Merge sort.

• Searching: linear and binary search methods.

• Comparison of sorting and searching methods.

Structures and Pointers 

• Introduction to structures, Advantages,

• Creation of Structure. Nested structures. 

• Array of structures.

• Functions and structures.

• Pointers in structures - Introduction, pointer variable, pointer operator, pointer arithmetic.

• Pointers and arrays.

• Pointers in functions & recursions.

• Pointers and Strings, array pointers, dynamic allocation. 

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