Lecture 1: Introduction to C programming: Role of Compiler, Interpreter, Assembler. The Structure of a programming language. Writing and executing a Program. Program Debugging. . Assignments on creating, editing, executing, and debugging simple C programs.

Lecture 2: Data Types, Variables, Operators, Pre-processor Directives Input and Output Operators, Reading/Writing Characters, Formatted input/output Function. Assignments on operators for laboratory practice.

Lecture 3: Control Statement: IF.....ELSE Statement, IF......ELSE ladder, Nesting of IF.....ELSE Statements. Assignment on Control Statement for laboratory practice.

Lecture 4: Looping Control Statements: do-while, while, and for Statements. Branch control statements: Switch case, break, continue, goto statements. Assignment on Looping Control Statements for laboratory practice.

Lecture 5: Introduction to Array: One Dimensional Array, Two-Dimensional Array, Multi Dimensions Arrays. String Handling: Reading String from Terminal, Writing String to Screen. Assignments on array for laboratory practice.

Lecture 6: Pointers in C: Understanding Pointers, Pointer expressions, Pointer and Arrays, Pointers and Character String, Assignments on pointers for laboratory practice.

Lecture 7: Function: String Handling Functions. Function in C: Function Basics, Advantage of Function, Recursion, Variable Storage Classes, Variable arguments Function. Pointers to Functions. Assignments on functions for laboratory practice.

Lecture 8: Defining a Structure, Advantage of Structure, Size of Structure, Arrays of Structures, Structures and Functions, Defining Unions. Assignments on structure and Union for laboratory practice.

Lecture 9: Introduction to Dynamic Memory Allocation, malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), free(). Assignments on Dynamic Memory Allocation for laboratory practice.

Lecture 10: File Management in C: Introduction to File Management, Opening/Closing a File, Input/Output operations on Files, Error Handling During I/O Operations, Command Line Arguments. Pre-processor: Macro Substitution, File Inclusion, Computer Control Directives. Assignments on File Handling for laboratory practice.

To introduce students to the basic knowledge of programming fundamentals of basic programming language. Learn to write, edit, compile, debug, correct, recompile and run a program on a computer.

The concept of algorithm and creating the ability to analyze a problem, develop an algorithm to solve it.

To impart the concepts like operators, looping, array, functions, pointers, structure, union, and file handling.

The program coding techniques for the implementation of various real life problems.

The course aims to provide exposure to problem-solving through programming. It aims to make the student understand the basic concepts of a programming language. After completing this laboratory course, a student will be able to:
CO1: know the steps involved in compiling, linking, and debugging any code written on a specific language.
CO2: understand the basic concepts of any programming language such as keyword, identifiers, header files, and the methods of iteration or looping and branching, etc.
CO3: know the use of pointers and different data-structures like arrays, structures, union, etc.
CO4: understand various library and user-defined functions along with their declaration and definition.
CO5: understand the concepts of file handling and its applications.

Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, Pearson Education India

Herbert Schildt, C: The Complete Reference, McGraw Hill Education

R.Geoff Dromey, How to Solve it by Computer, Prentice-Hall

Byron Gottfried, Schaum's Outline of Programming with C, McGraw-Hill