BCA Syllabus – Introduction to UNIX and C Programming

2.4 Introduction to UNIX and C Programming

First Year          Part III Group A                   Second Semester            Subject Code :   

Unit – 1

Overview of Unix Operating System – Unix file system – working with files, file permissions, file security and directories – vi editor.

Unit – 2

Introduction and C Fundamentals: Introduction to computer – Type of programming languages – Introduction to C – The C character set – Identifiers and Keywords – Data types – constants – Variables – Declarations – Expression – Various types of operators. Data Input, Output and Control Statements: Preliminaries – Single character Input and Output – Entering Input data – Writing output data – The gets and puts functions – Branching Looping – Nested control structures – Switch – Break – Continue – Goto.

Unit – 3

Function :Overview – Defining a function – Accessing a function – function prototypes – passing arguments to a function – Recursion – Library function – Macros – The C processor. Program Structure : Storage classes – Automatic variables – Global variables – static variables – Multiple programming – Bitwise operation.

Unit – 4

Arrays: Defining and processing Array – passing arrays to function – Multidimensional arrays – Arrays and strings. Pointers : Fundamentals – Declaration – passing pointers to function – Usage in one Dimensional and Multi Dimensional arrays – Dynamic memory allocation – operations and pointers – Arrays of pointers – passing functions to other functions.

Unit – 5

Structures and Unions : Defining a structure – Procession a Structure – Structures and pointers – passing structures to functions – self referential structures – Bit fields – unions – enumerations - Opening and closing a Data file – creating a Data file – processing a Data file – unformatted Data file – command line parameters.

TEXT BOOK:

1. Unix Concepts and Applications – S.Das, TMH, II Edition – 1998.

2. E.Balagurusamy, “ Programming in ANSI C ”,  Edition 2.1, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company,  2002.