Intro Prog in C Course Page

Introduction to Programming in C, August 2019

Instructor Details

Name: Ajaya Kumar Dash
Email:
Address:
- CB-51, Faculty chambers, IIIT Bhubaneswar

Objective

To provide problem solving skills through programming.
Aims to provide an insight into the famous C-programming language.
To facilitate a hands-on experience about the theoretical concepts using labs.

Learning Outcomes

After the course completion, the students are expected to

identify the task and generate an abstract programming solution to solve it.
represent the programming solution of a task using structure chart, flowchart, pseudocode.
find out the basic requirement of the task.
tactfully decide the optimal data representation formats keeping the requirements of the task in mind.
handle program writing, editing, compiling, debugging and running using a suitable compiler.

Syllabus

Find the syllabus by visiting the link. [ Download Syllabus ]

Course Forum

You need to register into piazza as a student with your email-id at iiit-bh domain. Visit [ here ] to register.

Books

Text Book

T1. Programming in ANSI C (2009), E Balagurusamy,Tata McGraw Hill.
T2. Computer Science: A Structured Programming Approach Using C (2007), B A Forouzan, R F Gilberg, CENGAGE Learning.
T3. Programming with C (2009), B S Gottfried,J K Chhabra, Schaum’s Outline Series,Tata McGraw Hill.

Reference Books

R1. The C Programming Language (2nd Ed.), B W Kernighan, D Ritchie, PHI.
R2. How to solve it by Computer by R J Dromey, Prentice-Hall India.
R3. LetUs C, Y Kanetkar, BPB Publisher.

Evaluation

Homeworks

Homework 1 is Out !!
- Due Date: 20-Sept-2019
- Download the questions [Link]
- Steps to submit your solution:
  - Use the LaTeX typesetting to submit your solution. [Try to learn the basics of LaTeX from internet]
  - Generate a .pdf file of the solution using the LaTeX format provided here. [Link]
  - The solution file must be in .pdf format and the naming convention for the file should be studentid_hw1sol_progC.pdf. [Strictly follow this naming convention.]
  - Submission portal [Link]

Tentative Course Schedule

For the approximate schedule of class progress, visit this [Link].

Course Progress and Resources

Week No	Date	Time	Duration	ReadingList / Resources	Contents Discussed
Week1	13/08/19(ETC) 16/08/19(CSE)	02:15pm 02:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-01 of T2 * Piazza course resources	Introduction to programming languages.
Week2	20/08/19(ETC) 26/08/19(CSE)	02:15pm 02:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-02 of T2 * Piazza course resources	Structure of a Program in C, identifiers, variables, datatypes, constants, examples and discussion.
Week3	27/08/19(ETC) 30/08/19(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-02 of T2 * Piazza course resources	Handling input and output in C, format specifiers and use, examples and discussion.
Week4	03/09/19(ETC) 06/09/19(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-03 of T2 * Piazza course resources	Operators, precedence, associativity and their use, examples and discussion.
Week5	10/09/19(ETC) 13/09/19(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-05 of T2 * Chapter-06 of T2 * Piazza course resources	Logical expressions; Decision making and branching: if-else, switch; Loop: for, while, do-while
Week6	17/09/19(ETC) 20/09/19(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-04 of T2 * Piazza course resources	User defined functions: Declaration, definition, calling, actual and formal parameters, function call by value, examples
Week 7	-	-	-	-	Mid-Semester
Week 8	-	-	-	-	Dussehra holiday
Week 9	15/10/2019(ETC) 18/10/2019(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-04 of T2 * Piazza course resources	Types of functions, recusion: concepts, examples (Fibonacci series, Tower of Hanoi)
Week 10	22/10/2019(ETC) 28/10/2019(CSE)	02:15pm 02:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-07 and 08 of T1 * Piazza course resources	Arrays and Strings: Introduction, 1D, 2D and 3D arrays, array initialization, declaration, internal organisation, character arrays, declaration and initialization of string variables, string handling functions etc.
Week 11	29/10/2019(ETC) 01/11/2019(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-10 of T1 * Piazza course resources	Structures and Unions: Introdcution, define, declare and initialize structure variables, arrays of structures, nested structures, unions, size of structures, bit fields etc..
Week 12	05/11/2019(ETC) 08/11/2019(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-11 of T1 * Piazza course resources	Pointers: Introduction, understanding pointers, declaration, initialization and accessing the pointer variable, chain of pointers, pointer and arrays, pointer and strings, pointer and function, pointer and structure, self-referential structure
Week 13	12/11/2019(ETC) 15/11/2019(CSE)	02:15pm 01:15pm	3hrs	* Chapter-12, 13 of T1 * Piazza course resources	Dynamic Memory Allocation: malloc, calloc, realloc, free; File management: Introduction, File operations: open, close, I/O, error handling, random aceess in a file; Command line arguments