Computer Fundamentals and Programming in C

Characteristics & capabilities; classification; Components of computer system with Block Diagram, CPU, only preliminary concept of Software, Hardware, Low Level Language, High Level Language, Compiler and Interpreter. Operating Systems: Introduction to operating Systems: WINDOWS, UNIX, Linux operating systems.

Basics of C programming, Structure of a simple C program, Simple I/o functions, Data types in C, operators & their precedence, Control Structures: if-else statements, switch statement, loops: while, do-while and for loop.

User-defined functions, returning a value from a function, local & Global variables, automatic, Static Register and External Storage class. Parameters: Type, declaration of a function, functions with more than one parameters, recursion, Arrays: arrays (up to 2 dimensions), Declaration and initialization, the break structured, string and character arrays, operations with arrays, The C preprocessors. String and string functions. Structures: Initializing a structure, Arrays of structures, arrays within structures, structures within structures; Structures and functions, Unions,

Pointers, the concept of pointers, the address and indirection operators, passing pointers as parameters. Dynamic memory allocation, Arrays and pointers, passing by value and reference, Address arithmetic. Basics of Pointer to pointers.

Modes for files, functions used in files (putchar, getchar, getc, putc, fopen, fclose, fscanf, fprint,fseek, ftell, fread and (write), error handling in files.