Syllabus

NCS-101/201 : Computer System and Programming in C

(Approved by UPTU, Lucknow)

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Unit1 (10 Lectures)
 

Basics of Computer: Introduction to digital computer, basic operations of computer, functional components of computer, Classification of computers.

Introduction to operating system: [DOS, Windows, Linux and Android] purpose, function, services and types.

Number system: Binary, octal and hexadecimal number systems, their mutual conversions, Binary arithmetic.

Basics of programming: Approaches to Problem Solving, Concept of algorithm and flow charts

Types of computer languages: Machine Language, Assembly Language and High Level Language, Concept of Assembler, Compiler, Loader and Linker.

Unit2 (8 Lectures)

Introduction: Standard I/O in C, Fundamental data types- Character type, integer, short, long, unsigned, single and double floating point, Storage classes- automatic, register, static and external, Operators and expression- using numeric and relational operators, mixed operands, type conversion, logical operators, bit operations, assignment operator, operator precedence and associativity.

Fundamentals of C programming: Structure of C program, writing and executing the first C program, components of C language. Standard I/O in C.

 

Unit3 (10 Lectures)

Conditional program execution: Applying if and switch statements, nesting if and else, use of break and default with switch, program loops and iterations: use of while, do while and for loops, multiple loop variables, use of break and continue statements.

Functions: Introduction, types of functions, functions with array, passing values to functions, recursive functions.

Unit 4 (6 Lectures)

Arrays: Array notation and representation, manipulating array elements, using multi-dimensional arrays.

Structure, union, enumerated data types.

Unit 5 (8 Lectures)
 

Pointers: Introduction, declaration, applications.

File handling, standard C preprocessors, defining and calling macros, conditional compilation, passing values to the compiler.