JSS MAHAVIDHYAPEETHA

JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
 Constituent College of JSS Science and Technology University
 Approved by A.I.C.T.E
 Governed by the Grant-in-Aid Rules of Government of Karnataka
 Identified as lead Institution for World Bank Assistance under TEQIP Scheme

Course Details:
Academic Year 2020-2021

Title of the course Introduction to Programming

Semester I / II

Teaching Department Computer Science and Engineering / Information Science and Engineering

Branches offered Both circuit and non-circuit branches

Course Scheme:
Subject Code: 20CS110/20CS210 CIE: 50 Marks
Credits (L:T:P): 3:0:0 SEE: 50 Marks
Theory: 03 Hrs.
Hours / Week: Total Hours: 40 Hrs.
Tutorial: NIL

Pre-requisite: NIL
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Students are exposed to:
1. Learn the basic principles and concepts of problem solving.
2. Apply the constructs of C programming language for problems.
3. Acquire design factors and implement simple application programs.

COURSE OUTCOMES
After completing this course, students should be able to:
CO1: Define the basic concepts of problem solving and C programming constructs. Reproduce
algorithmic solutions to problems.
CO2: Illustrate the suitable constructs of C Programming language to solve problems.
CO3: Develop applications using Arrays, Strings, Functions, Pointers and Structures.

CO-PO Mapping (Articulation Matrix):

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
CO1 3 3 3 3 - - - - - 2 1 2
CO2 3 3 3 3 - - - - - 2 1 2
CO3 3 3 3 3 - - - - - 2 1 2
Strength of Mapping: 1 – Low, 2 – Medium, 3 – High
JSS MAHAVIDHYAPEETHA
JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
 Constituent College of JSS Science and Technology University
 Approved by A.I.C.T.E
 Governed by the Grant-in-Aid Rules of Government of Karnataka
 Identified as lead Institution for World Bank Assistance under TEQIP Scheme

SYLLABUS:
Unit No. of
Course Content
No. Hours
1. Problem Solving Concepts: 08
Introduction to Algorithms and Flowcharts, Exchanging the values of Two
Variables, Counting, Summation of a Set of Numbers, Factorial Computation,
Sine Function Computation, Generation of the Fibonacci Sequence.
Overview of C:
Basic structure of a C program, executing a C Program, Character Set, C Tokens,
Keywords and Identifiers, Constants, Variables, data types, Declaration of
variables, Assigning values to variables, Defining Symbolic Constants,
Formatted Input and Formatted Output.
2. Operators: 06
Introduction, Arithmetic Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators,
Assignment Operators, Increment and Decrement Operators, Conditional
Operator, Bitwise Operators, Conditional Operator, Special Operators: Comma
and ‘sizeof’ operator.
Expressions:
Arithmetic Expressions, Evaluation of Expressions, Precedence of Arithmetic
Operators, Type Conversions in Expressions, Operator Precedence and
Associativity.
3. Control statements: 08
Introduction, Decision Making with IF Statement, Simple IF Statement, the
IF...ELSE Statement, Nesting of IF Statements, The ELSE…IF Ladder, The
Switch statement, Use of ‘goto’ statement.
Loops:
The WHILE Statement, The DO – While Statement, the FOR Statement, Nesting
of Loops, Jumps in Loops: break & continue statement. exit statement.
JSS MAHAVIDHYAPEETHA
JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
 Constituent College of JSS Science and Technology University
 Approved by A.I.C.T.E
 Governed by the Grant-in-Aid Rules of Government of Karnataka
 Identified as lead Institution for World Bank Assistance under TEQIP Scheme

4. Arrays: 08
One-dimensional Arrays, Declaration of One-dimensional Arrays, Initialization
of One-dimensional Arrays, Example programs- Linear search, Binary search,
Bubble sort.
Two-dimensional Arrays, Declaration of Two-dimensional Arrays, Initialization
of Two-dimensional Arrays, Example programs – Matrix addition, Transpose of
a matrix.
Strings:
Declaring and Initializing String Variables, String-handling Functions - strlen(),
strcpy(), strcmp(), strcat(), strrev() with examples.
5. Pointers: 10
Introduction, Declaration and Initialization of Pointer variables, accessing a
variable through its Pointer.
Structures:
Structure definition and declaration, Operations on individual members.
User Defined Functions:
Elements of User-defined Functions - Function Declaration, Definition of
Functions, Function Calls. Return Values and their Types. Category of Functions.
Passing Arrays and Structures to Functions, Parameter passing - Pass by Value
and Pass by Reference. Recursive functions.

Text Books:
1. R. G Dromey: “How to solve it by Computer”, Pearson Education India 2015.
2. Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie: “The C Programming Language”, 2 nd Edition, PHI,
2012.
3. E. Balaguruswamy: “Programming with ANSI C”, 8th Edition, 2019, Tata McGraw Hill
Publications.

Reference Books:
1. Jacqueline Jones & Keith Harrow: “Problem Solving with C”, 1st Edition, Pearson 2011.
2. Herbert Schildt: “C: The Complete Reference”, Paperback – 1, 4th Edition, July 2017.

Web Resources:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs42/preview
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs43/preview
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/105/106105171/#
Also visit NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in) for additional information on the course.
JSS MAHAVIDHYAPEETHA
JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
 Constituent College of JSS Science and Technology University
 Approved by A.I.C.T.E
 Governed by the Grant-in-Aid Rules of Government of Karnataka
 Identified as lead Institution for World Bank Assistance under TEQIP Scheme

Evaluation Scheme:
Continuous Internal Evaluation
Event Type Marks Hours
allotted
CIE -1 Written test -1 20 01 Hr.
CIE -2 Event -1 (Assignments / Seminars / Mini 20 One/Two
week
Project / MCQs / Viva)
duration/01 Hr.
CIE -3 Written test -2 20 01 Hr.
CIE -4 Event -2 (Assignments / Seminars / Mini 20 One/Two
week
Project / MCQs / Viva)
duration/01 Hr.
CIE -5 Written test -3 20 01 Hr.

Semester End Examination

Marks
Event Type Hours
allotted
SEE Written Examination 100 03 Hrs.