MCA – 1 SEMESTER

MCA-101   COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

L T P Total                                                                                                       Credits-4

4 0 0 4                                                                        Duration of Exam- Three hours

Programming and problem solving: Basics of Computer organisation, High level and low level languages, Steps involved in computer programming, Developing algorithms and flow charts,

C data types, C operators, Expressions, Order and Precedence of evaluation, Statements in C.

Control Statements, Functions, Arrays, Pre-processor Directives.

Pointers, Pointers and Arrays, String Handling, Functions and pointers, Dynamic Memory Allocation.

User defined data types – Structures and Unions, Bit Fields, Array of Structures, Structures with arrays.

Command line arguments, Input-output operations, File Handling.

Suggested References

1. The C Programming Language, Second Edition, Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, PHI, New Delhi.
2. C++ The Complete Reference, Herbert Schildt, Tata McGrawHill, 2005.
3. Programming with C, Gottfried & J.K. Chhabra, Schaum’s Series, McGraw Hill.
4. E. Balagurusamy, Programming in ANSI C, 2004, McGrawHill, New Delhi