Basics of ‘C’ Language

• History and Features of C, Importance of C, About Procedural Language
• Role of Compiler, Role of Interpreter, The Structure of a C Program.
• Writing C Programs, Building an Executable Version of a C Program
• Types of Errors , Debugging a C Program.

An Overview of ‘C’ And Buzzwords

• Data Types, Variable, Constants , Key words
• Input and Output Operators, Reading/Writing Character
• Formatted input/output Function

Various Types of Operators

• ‘C’ Arithmetic Operators (Remainder Operator ‘%’ etc.)
• Unary, Binary, Ternary Operator (Conditional Operator)
• Logical Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
• Relational Operators (<,>, <=, >= etc.)
• Bitwise Operators

Condition Checking

• The IF…..ELSE Statement, Nesting of IF…..ELSE Statements
• Implementation of Logical operators with IF-Else.
• USE of SWITCH-CASE Statements

Loops (Iterative Statements)

• While
• For
• Do – While
• Implementation of Conditions (If-Else) within Loop
• Use of GOTO, Break and Continue
• Nesting of Loops (Pyramids , Pascal Triangle etc.)

Functions in ‘C’

• Function Basics, Advantage of Function
• Function Returning Values
• Recursion
• Function Calling (Call by Value, Call by Reference, Call by Pointer)
• Designing Your Own Header File
• Function Overloading, Passing Default Arguments to Function

Storage Classes in ‘C’

• Automatic, Register, Static, Global (Extern)
• Application of storage Classes

Preprocessor (Macro)

• Macro Expansion
• Macros with arguments
• Macros vs Functions

Pointers in ‘C’

• Declaring and Initializing Pointers
• Pointer to pointer
• Pointers with Functions (Call By Pointer)
• Pointer Arithmetic

Array in ‘C’

• One Dimension Arrays, Two Dimension Arrays, Multi Dimensions Array
• Pointer and Arrays
• Passing Array to Function
• Sorting Techniques (Bubble Sort, Selection Sort etc.)
• Array Multiplication, Addition Subtraction etc.

String in ‘C’

• Initializing String
• String handling functions (strcpy, strlen, strcmp, strcat, strlwr, strupr etc.)
• Passing string to function
• Sorting Techniques (Bubble Sort, Selection Sort etc.)
• Manipulating String
• Unformatted Functions to work with strings and characters

Structures and Unions

• Defining a Structure, Size (Memory) of Structure, Initialization of Structure
• Array of Structure objects, Structure Pointer, Array in Structure
• Nested Structure (Structure within Structure)
• Passing Structure to Function, Function returning Structure
• Unions
• Structure Vs Unions

ENUM, Typedef, Type Casting

Escape Sequences in ‘C’

Introduction to Link List (Dynamic Memory allocation)

• Dynamic Memory Allocation(Malloc, Calloc, Realloc, Free etc.)
• Concepts of Linked Lists
• Creating a Linked Lists, Inserting/Deleting an item in Linked List
• Applications of Linked Lists

File Handling in ‘C’

• File Management, File Pointers
• Opening/Closing a File , Operations on File (Read, Write, Append etc.)
• Text File and Binary File
• Input/Output operations on Files
• Error Handling During I/O Operations
• Command Line Arguments