UNIT I BASICS OF C PROGRAMMING

Introduction to programming paradigms – Applications of C Language - Structure of C program - C programming: Data Types - Constants – Enumeration Constants - Keywords – Operators:Precedence and Associativity - Expressions - Input/Output statements, Assignment statements – Decision making statements - Switch statement - Looping statements – Preprocessor directives - Compilation process

UNIT II ARRAYS AND STRINGS

Introduction to Arrays: Declaration, Initialization – One dimensional array –Two dimensional arrays - String operations: length, compare, concatenate, copy – Selection sort, linear and binary search.

UNIT III FUNCTIONS AND POINTERS

Modular programming - Function prototype, function definition, function call, Built-in functions (string functions, math functions) – Recursion, Binary Search using recursive functions –Pointers – Pointer operators – Pointer arithmetic – Arrays and pointers – Array of pointers – Parameter passing:Pass by value, Pass by reference.

UNIT IV STRUCTURES AND UNION

Structure - Nested structures – Pointer and Structures – Array of structures – Self referential structures – Dynamic memory allocation - Singly linked list – typedef – Union - Storage classes and Visibility.

UNIT V FILE PROCESSING

Files – Types of file processing: Sequential access, Random access – Sequential access file - Random access file - Command line arguments.