Basic Programming and Data Structure(c)

Course Title: Basic Programming and Data Structure (C) Credit: 3

Course No: BEDS 101 Number of period per week: 3

Nature of the Course: Theory Total hours: 45

Year: First, Semester: First

Level: B.E. Civil

1. Course Introduction

This course aims to provide introductory understanding of the various IT and programming tools used for

software development. The course will also help the student to enhance their logical and analytical skill ,

since learning to write a program is totally logical and analytical. The course will help them to increase

their problem solving skill. This course is an in-depth course designed to provide the basic concept of

computer programming. The course begins from the basic terminologies used in computer such as

definition of computer, input output devices, computer memories, Computer Programming and so on. The

course is expanded to different aspects of programming languages, such as machine language, Assembly

language, high level language, 4th generation language and so on.

2. Objectives

After successfully completing the course activities, the student will be able to:

Know the functionality (Hardware & software) of computer Know the hardware and software architecture of computer Write algorithm & draw the flowchart for any task and operation Understand the importance of programming in engineering field. Know the functioning of software company Use different techniques to write a program learn to use different control structures (conditional structure, loop control structure etc) Learn the concept of Array, function, string, structure, pointer and file handling. These are the strong

features of c language. Learn the concept and use of different data structures.

3. Specific Objectives and Contents

Specific Objectives Contents

To understand the basic concept and functionalities of a computer system.

Unit I: Computer Fundamentals (2)

Introduction, Characteristics of Computer, Application of

Computer, Basic Organization of Computer System, Input

Unit, Processing Unit, Storage Unit, Output Unit, Computer

Hardware, Computer Software, Types of Computer

Software.,

To develop the skill to solve a problem using different tools.

Understand the use of algorithm, flow chart and pseudo code in programming.

Unit II: Program Designing Tools (2)

Algorithm, Advantages and Limitations of an Algorithm,

Sample Examples,

Flow Chart, Advantages and Limitations of a flowchart,

Symbols used in a flow chart, Sample Examples

Pseudo code, Advantages and Limitations of Pseudo code,

Sample Examples.

To be familiar with various aspects of a programming language such as syntax, semantics, errors etc.

To gain the knowledge of different language translators.

Unit III: Basic Concept of Programming Language (4)

Machine Language, Advantages and Limitation of Machine

Language

Assembly Language, Advantages and Limitations of

Assembly Language

High Level Language, Advantages and Limitations of High

Level Language, Examples of Different High Level

Languages (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, PASCAL, C)

Syntax and Semantics of a Language, Source Program and

Object Program, Language Translators ( Compiler,

Assembler and Interpreter), Testing and Debugging a

Program, Program Design Techniques (Structured

Programming Concept and Modular Programming Concept),

Procedure Oriented Programming System (POPS) and Object

Oriented Programming System (OOPS), Compilation

Process, ASCII

To know the basic and essential parts of C programming

Understand detail of data type operators and statements

Understand to write simple programs

Unit IV: C Fundamentals (6)

Character set of C, Variables, Constants, Identifiers, Rules

for Declaring an Identifier, Key words, Data types,

Enumerated Data type, typedef, typecasting, Delimeters,

Operator in C (Arithmetic, Assignment, Comma, Increment,

Decrement, Relational, Logical, address of, sizeof, ternary

operator), Hierarchy- Precedence and Associatively of

Operators

Statements( Executable and Non- Executable Statements),

Comments

Basic Structure of a C Program, Pre- processor Directive,

Input/ Output Functions, Format Specifiers, Field width

Specifiers, Escape Sequences

Programming Examples

To know the details of decision making statements

Learn to handle the conditional statements

To know the similarities and differences between if and switch statements

Unit V: Decision Control Structure (3)

Introduction, If statement, Nested if statement, if else

statement, nested if else statement, use of logical operators,

switch statements, comparison of if and switch statements,

Programming examples

Understand the details of implementing loop in a program

Understand the different types of Loops

Unit VI: Loop Control Structure (4)

Introduction, Need of Looping, Types of Loop Statements

(for, while, do while), Nesting of Loops, Break and Continue

statement, Finite and infinite loops, Programming examples

Know about handling of arrays and strings

Knowledge to group and handle set of similar data

Know about handling of pointer Know the importance of pointer Know the relation of pointer to

array and string

Know about handling of structures

Learn to group and handle set of dissimilar data in C programming

Unit VII: Arrays and Strings (5)

Introduction, Dimension of Array, 1D Array Declaration, 1D

Array Initialization, 1D Array input, 1D Array output

2D Array Declaration, 2D Array initialization, 2D Array

input/output

String, String initialization String input/output, String

Manipulation, 2D Array of String

Programming Examples

Unit VIII: Pointer (5)

Introduction, void pointer, null pointer, pointer constants,

pointer variable, pointer arithmetic, 1D array& pointer, 2D

array& pointer, pointer& strings, chain of pointer,

application of pointer

Programming examples

Unit IX: Structure and Union (3)

Introduction, Accessing members of structure variable,

Structure input/output, initializing a structure variable, array

of structure, nesting of structure, pointer of structure variable

Introduction to union

Programming examples

Know about handling of user defined function

Learn about components of function

Learn about call by value and call by reference

Learn about recursion Learn importance of file Learn to write data to a file and

read data from a file Learn fundamentals of data

structure

Unit X: Function (5)

Introduction, Components of a function program, function

definition, function call, function proto type, actual

arguments, formal arguments, return types, call by value, call

by reference, passing both value and address, passing 1D and

2D array to a function, passing structure to a function ,

recursion, macro, storage classes, advantages of using a

function

Programming examples

Unit XI: File Input Output (4)

Introduction, File pointer, opening a file, modes of opening

the file, file input/output operations, random access to a file

Programming examples

Unit XII: Introduction to Data Structures (2)

Introduction, need of a data structure, types of data

structures, over view of various data structures: array, stack,

queue, linked lists, tree, graphs

Evaluation System

Undergraduate Programs

External Evaluation

Marks Internal Evaluation

Weight age

Marks Practical Weight age

Mark

End semester examination

60

Assignments 20%

20

Practical Record copy

25%

20

(Details are given in the separate table at the end)

Quizzes 10% Viva 25%

Attendance 20% Practical Exam

50%

Internal Exams

50%

Total External 60 Total Internal 100% 20 100% 20 Full Marks 60+20+20 = 100

External evaluation

1. End semester examination: It is a written examination at the end of the semester. The questions will be asked covering all the

units of the course. The question model, full marks, time and others will be as per the following

grid.

2. External Practical Evaluation: After completing the end semester theoretical examination, practical examination will

be held. External examiner will conduct the practical examination according to the above

mentioned evaluation. There will be an internal examiner to assist the external examiner.

Three hours time will be given for the practical examination. In this examination Students

must demonstrate the knowledge of the subject matter.

Full Marks:

100, Pass Marks: 45, Time: 3 Hrs

Nature of question Total

questions to be asked

Total questions to be answered

Total marks

Weightage Total marks

Group A: multiple choice

20 20 20×1 = 20 20% 12.0

Group B: Short answer type questions

8 6 6×8 = 48 48% 28.8

Group C: Long answer type question/long menu driven programs

3 2 2×16 =32 32% 19.2

100 100%

60.0

3. Internal evaluation

Assignment: Each student must submit the assignment individually. The stipulated time for submission

of the assignment will be seriously taken.

Quizzes: Unannounced and announced quizzes/tests will be taken by the respective subject teachers.

Such quizzes/tests will be conducted twice per semester. The students will be evaluated accordingly.

Attendance in class: Students should regularly attend and participate in class discussion. Eighty percent

class attendance is mandatory for the students to enable them to appear in the end semester examination.

Below 80% attendance in the class will signify NOT QUALIFIED (NQ) to attend the end semester

examination.

Presentation: Students will be divided into groups and each group will be provided with a topic for

presentation. It will be evaluated individually as well as group-wise. Individual students have to make

presentations on the given topics.

Mid-term examination: It is a written examination and the questions will be asked covering all the

topics in the session of the course.

Discussion and participation: Students will be evaluated on the basis of their active participation in the

classroom discussions.

Instructional Techniques: All topics are discussed with emphasis on real-world application. List of instructional techniques is as follows: Lecture and Discussion Group work and Individual work Assignments Presentation by Students Quizzes Guest Lecture Students are advised to attend all the classes and complete all the assignments within the specified time period. If a student does not attend the class(es), it is his/her sole responsibility to cover the topic(s) taught during that period.

Prescribed Text

Programming in C: V Rajaraman, PHI Publication, 2009 Edition

Programming in C: E Balagurusamy, Tata Mc-Graw Hill Publication, 6th Edition A Text Book of C Programming: Karn & Mahato, Bench Mark Publication, 1st Edition

Reference

Data Structure using C: Aaron M. Tenenbaum, Yediclyah Langsam, Augenstein, Pearson Education Publication, 7th Edition 2009

Let us C: Yeswant Kanetkar, BPB Publication Programming with C: Byron S Gottfried, Tata Mc-Graw Hill Publication, 3rd Edition

A book on C: A L Kelley, Ira Pohl, Pearson Education Publication, 4th Edition

Course Title: Basic Programming and Data Structure Practical

Course No: B.Sc.CS CHM Pr.101

Nature of the Course: Practical

Year: First, Semester: First

Level: BE Civil

Objectives:

By the end of the course the student should be able to:

Write simple and complex programs Develop application programs Know the syntax and semantics of C language Identify and eliminate the syntax and semantic errors Effectively use concept of decision control structure Effectively use concept of loop control structure Effectively use concept of arrays and strings Effectively use concept of pointers Effectively use concept of structure Effectively use concept of function Effectively use concept of file I/O

Laboratory Works:

Sufficient programming examples from each of specified chapters

Note:

Student must perform 6 Hours of lab work (2 Hours x 3 times or 3 Hours x 2 times) every week The practical exam will be graded on the basis of the following marking scheme:

In-Semester Evaluation (Note copy) 25% Final Exam Written 50 % Final Exam Oral 25 % Books:

Programming in C: V Rajaraman, PHI Publication Programming in C: E Balagurusamy, Tata Mc-Graw Hill Publication, 6th Edition A Text Book of C Programming: Karn & Mahato, Bench Mark Publication, 1st Edition

Credit: 1

Total hours: 15