C Programming BCA I sem syllabus 

Unit – 1 :

Overview of C: History and importance of C; Structureof a C Program with Examples;

Creating and Executing a C Program; Compilation process in C.

Constants, variables and data types: Character Set; C tokens – keywords and

identifiers, constants, and variables; Data types; Declaration & initialization of

variables.

Input and output with C: Formatted I/O functions - printf and scanf, Unformatted

I/O functions to read and display single character and a string - getchar, putchar,

gets and puts functions.

Unit – 2 :

C Operators & Expressions: Arithmetic operators; Relational operators; Logical

operators; Assignment operators; Increment & Decrement operators; Bitwise

operators; Conditional operator; Special operators; Operator Precedence and

Associatively; Evaluation of arithmetic expressions; Type conversion.

Control Structures: Decision making Statements - Simple if, if_else, nested if_else,

else_if ladder, Switch Case, goto, break & continue statements; decision making and

Looping Statements - Entry controlled and exit controlled statements, while, do-

while, for loops, Nested loops.

Unit – 3

Arrays: One Dimensional arrays - Declaration, Initialization; Two Dimensional

arrays - Declaration, Initialization, Multidimensional array.

Strings: Declaring & Initializing string variables; String handling functions - strlen,

strcmp, strcpy and strcat; Character handling functions - toascii, toupper, tolower,

isalpha, isnumeric etc.

Unit – 4 :

User Defined Functions: Need for user defined functions; elements of user defined

functions – return values and their types; function calls and declaration, category

of function, recursion.

Unit – 5 :

Pointers in C: Understanding pointers - Declaring and initializing pointers,

accessing address and value of variables using pointers; Pointers and Arrays;

Pointer expressions; Advantages and disadvantages of using pointers.

Structures and Unions - Structure Definition, accessing structure members,

Structure members initialization, comparing structure variables, Array of

Structures; Unions - Union definition; difference between Structures and Unions.

Text Books:

1. E. Balaguruswamy: Programming in ANSI C (TMH), 6th edition 2012.

2. C: The Complete Reference, By Herbert Schildt. 4th Edition By Herbert Schildt 2000 |

Published: October 6, 2000.

3. C Programming Language, By Brain W. Kernighan, 2nd Edition AT & T Bell Laboratories

Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Reference Books:

1. P. K. Sinha & Priti Sinha: Computer Fundamentals (BPB)

2. Kamthane: Programming with ANSI and TURBO C (Pearson Education)

3. V. Rajaraman: Programming in C (PHI – EEE)

4. S. Byron Gottfried: Programming with C (TMH)

5. Yashwant Kanitkar: Let us C

6. P.B. Kottur: Programming in C (Sapna Book House)