Principles of Programming Using C BPOPS103/203

Module 1 Overview

Introduction to C (6 Hours of Pedagogy): Introduction to computers, input and output devices, designing efficient programs. Introduction to C, Structure of C program, Files used in a C program, Compilers, Compiling and executing C programs, variables, constants, Input/output statements in C.

Textbook: Chapter 1.1-1.9, 2.1-2.2, 8.1 - 8.6, 9.1-9.14.

Teaching-Learning Process: Chalk and talk method/PowerPoint Presentation/ Web Content: https://tinyurl.com/4xmrexre

Module 2 Overview

Operators in C (6 Hours of Pedagogy): Type conversion and typecasting. Decision control and Looping statements: Introduction to decision control, Conditional branching statements, iterative statements, nested loops, break and continue statements, goto statement. Textbook: Chapter 9.15-9.16, 10.1-10.6.

Teaching-Learning Process: Chalk and talk method/PowerPoint Presentation

Module 3 Overview

Functions (8 Hours of Pedagogy): Introduction using functions, Function definition, function declaration, function call, return statement, passing parameters to functions, scope of variables, storage classes, recursive functions.

Arrays: Declaration of arrays, accessing the elements of an array, storing values in arrays, Operations on arrays, Passing arrays to functions, two dimensional arrays, operations on two-dimensional arrays, two-dimensional arrays to functions, multidimensional arrays, applications of arrays.

Textbook: Chapter 11.1-11.10, 12.1-12.10, 12.12.

Teaching-Learning Process: Chalk and talk method/PowerPoint Presentation

Module 4 Overview

Strings and Pointers (6 Hours of Pedagogy): Introduction, string taxonomy, operations on strings, Miscellaneous string and character functions, arrays of strings.

Pointers: Introduction to pointers, declaring pointer variables, Types of pointers, Passing arguments to functions using pointers.

Textbook: Chapter 13.1-13.6, 14-14.7.

Teaching-Learning Process: Chalk and talk method/PowerPoint Presentation

Module 5 Overview

Structure, Union, and Enumerated Data Type (6 Hours of Pedagogy): Introduction, structures and functions, Unions, unions inside structures, Enumerated data type. Files: Introduction to files, using files in C, reading and writing data files., Detecting end of file.

Textbook: Chapter 15.1 - 15.10, 16.1-16.5.

Teaching-Learning Process: Chalk and talk method/PowerPoint Presentation