MCA612-617_Computer Programming

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING (THEORYAND PRACTICAL) MCA616/MCA617 Kiran Gurbani

CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY Institute of Distance and Online Learning Course Development Committee Chairman Prof. (Dr.) R.S. Bawa Vice Chancellor, Chandigarh University, Punjab Advisors Prof. (Dr.) Bharat Bhushan, Director, IGNOU Prof. (Dr.) Majulika Srivastava, Director, CIQA, IGNOU Programme Coordinators & Editing Team Master of Business Administration (MBA) Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Co-ordinator - Prof. Pragya Sharma Co-ordinator - Dr. Rupali Arora Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) Co-ordinator - Dr. Deepti Rani Sindhu Co-ordinator - Dr. Raju Kumar Master of Commerce (M.Com.) Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Co-ordinator - Dr. Shashi Singhal Co-ordinator - Dr. Minakshi Garg Master of Arts (Psychology) Bachelor of Science (Travel & Tourism Co-ordinator - Ms. Nitya Mahajan Management) Master of Arts (English) Co-ordinator - Dr. Shikha Sharma Co-ordinator - Dr. Ashita Chadha Bachelor of Arts (General) Master of Arts (Mass Communication and Co-ordinator - Ms. Neeraj Gohlan Journalism) Bachelor of Arts (Mass Communication and Co-ordinator - Dr. Chanchal Sachdeva Suri Journalism) Co-ordinator - Dr. Kamaljit Kaur Academic and Administrative Management Prof. (Dr.) Pranveer Singh Satvat Prof. (Dr.) S.S. Sehgal Pro VC (Academic) Registrar Prof. (Dr.) H. Nagaraja Udupa Prof. (Dr.) Shiv Kumar Tripathi Director – (IDOL) Executive Director – USB © No part of this publication should be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise without the prior written permission of the author and the publisher. SLM SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR CU IDOL STUDENTS Printed and Published by: Himalaya Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., E-mail: [email protected], Website: www.himpub.com For: CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY Institute of Distance and Online Learning CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

Computer Programming (Theory and Practical) Course Code: MCA616 Credits: 3 Course Objectives:  To develop the problem-solving skills using C language.  To inculcate programming logic, use of programming instructions, syntax and program structure.  To develop foundation for students to learn other complex programming languages like C++, Java, etc. Syllabus Unit 1. Introduction to Computer and Programming: Introduction, basic block diagram and functions of various components of computer, flow charts and algorithms, machines and knowledge about problem solving, steps followed in program development, Importance of discipline in programming. Unit 2. Fundamentals of C: Features of C language, structure of C program, comments, header files, data types, constants and variables. Unit 3. Operators and Expressions: Operators, expressions, evaluation of expressions, type conversion, precedence and associativity, I/O functions. Unit 4. Decision and Loop Control Structure: Decision making statements, nesting of decision control structures, switch statement, simple statements, decision making statements, looping statements, nesting of control structures, break and continue, goto statement. Unit 5. Arrays: Concepts of array, one and two dimensional arrays, declaration and initialization of arrays. Unit 6. Strings: String basics, string storage, built-in-string functions. Unit 7. Functions and Macros: Concepts of user defined functions, prototypes, definition of function, parameters, parameter passing, calling a function, recursive function. CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

Unit 8. Pointers: Basics of pointers, pointer to pointer, pointer and array, pointer to array, array of pointers, functions returning a pointer. Unit 9. Structure: Basics of structure, structure members, accessing structure members, nested structures, array of structures, structure and functions, structures and pointers. Unit 10. Dynamic Memory Allocation: Introduction to Dynamic memory allocation, malloc, calloc. Unit 11. C Preprocessor: Concepts of preprocessor, preprocessor directives, pre-defined macros, parameterized macros. Unit 12. File Management: Introduction to file management and its functions. Text Books: 1. Balaguruswamy (2017),.Programming in ANSI C, New Delhi: McGraw-Hill. 2. Kanetkar, Y. (2014), Programming in C ANSI Standard, New Delhi: BPB Publications. 3. Gottfried (2005), Programming with C, New York: Tata McGraw-Hill. Reference Books: 1. Harrow, K and Jones, J. (1996), Problem Solving with C, London: Pearson Education. 2. Jeri, R. and Hanly, Koffman, E.P. (2000), Problem Solving and Program Design in C, 3rd Edition Boston: Addison Wesley. CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

Computer Programming Practical Course Code: MCA617 Credits: 1 Course Objectives:  To develop programming logic, use of programming instructions, syntax and program structure.  To analyze the foundation of complex programming languages like C++ etc.  To practice the techniques for the development and application of problem-solving skills. Syllabus Unit 1. C Basics and Control Structure: 1. Write a program that reads two numbers from keyboard and gives their addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modulo. 2. The distance between two cities (in KM) is input through keyboard. Write a program to convert and print this distance in meters, feet, inches and centimeters. 3. Write a C program to perform post- and pre-increment, post and pre-decrement operations. 4. Write a program which implements the working of all Bit-wise operators. 5. Write a program to select and print the largest of the three numbers using Nested-If- Else statement. 6. Write a program to perform arithmetic operations using switch case. 7. Write a program to find sum of all integers greater than 100 and less than 200 and are divisible by 5. 8. Write a C program to implement: ex =1+ x + x2 + x3 , ¼ 1! 2! 3! CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

Unit 2. Arrays, Strings, Functions and Structure: 1. Write a program to perform various matrix operations — Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Transpose using switch-case statement. 2. Programs based on string handling 3. Write a program using function to implement Pascal Triangle 4. Write a program that used user defined function Swap ( ) and interchange the value of two variables. 5. Write a function prime that return 1 if its argument is prime and return 0 otherwise. 6. Define a structure type, personal, that would contain person name, date of joining and salary. Using this structure, write a program to read this information for one person from the keyboard and print the same on the screen. 7. Define a structure called cricket that will describe the following information: (a) Player name, (b) Team name and (c) Batting average. Unit 3. Pointers and DMA: 1. Write a program using pointer and function to determine the length of string. 2. Write a program using pointer to compare two strings. 3. Write a program using pointer to concatenate two strings. 4. Write a program using pointer to copy one string to another string. 5. Write a program using pointer to read an array of integer and print element in reverse order. CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

6. Write a program that uses a table of integers whose size will be specified interactively at run time. 7. Write a program to store a character string in block of memory space created by malloc and then modify the same to store a large string. Unit 4.C Preprocessor and File Management: 1. Write a program which reads diameter and height of a cone and calculate its volume using macros. 2. A program to illustrate reading file contents. 3. A program to illustrate the use of fgets( ). 4. A program to illustrate the use of fputc( ) and fputs( ). Text Books: 1. Balaguruswamy (2017), Programming in ANSI C, New Delhi: McGraw-Hill. 2. Kanetkar, Y. (2014), Programming in C ANSI Standard, New Delhi: BPB Publications. 3. Gottfried (2005), Programming with C, New York: Tata McGraw-Hill. Reference Books: 1. Harrow, K. and Jones, J. (1996), Problem Solving with C, London: Pearson Education. 2. Jeri R. Hanly and Koffman, E.P. (2000), Problem Solving and Program Design in C, 3rd Edition, Boston: Addison Wesley. CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

CONTENTS Unit 1: Introduction to Computer and Programming 1 – 28 Unit 2: Fundamentals of C 29 – 60 Unit 3: Operators and Expressions 61 – 98 Unit 4: Decision and Loop Control Structure 99 – 133 Unit 5: Arrays 134 - 144 Unit 6: Strings 145 - 158 Unit 7: Functions 159 - 190 Unit 8: Pointers 191 – 216 Unit 9: Structure 217 – 243 Unit 10: Dynamic Memory Allocation 244 – 258 Unit 11: C Preprocessor 259 – 270 Unit 12: File Management 271 – 301 Practical Unit 1: C Basics and Control Structure 302 – 309 Practical Unit 2: Arrays, Strings, Functions and Structure 310 – 323 Practical Unit 3: Pointers and DMA 324 – 331 Practical Unit 4: C Preprocessor and File Management 332 – 337 CU IDOL SELF LEARNING MATERIAL (SLM)

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