FPL Notes | Unit 1 – 5 | 2024 Pattern SPPU

FPL subject has a total evaluation of 125 Marks and carries 3 Credits,.

Examination Scheme Breakdown

Component	Assessment Type	Marks
Theory	Comprehensive Continuous Evaluation (CCE)	30
	End-Semester Examination (ESE)	70
Practical	Term Work (TW)	25
Total		125

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Syllabus

Unit I: Introduction to Program Planning & C Programming (06 Hours)

Program Design Tools

• Concept of programming and problem solving
• Art of programming through algorithms
• Flowcharts and their symbols
• Steps involved in program development

Overview of C

• History and importance of C language
• Structure of a C program
• Character set used in C
• C tokens and their types
• Keywords and identifiers

Constants and Variables

• Types of constants
• Variables and naming rules
• Data types in C
• Declaration of variables
• Storage classes
• Assigning values to variables
• Defining symbolic constants
• Declaring a variable as const
• Declaring a variable as volatile

Exemplar / Case Study

• Study of C program compilation process
• Testing and debugging of C programs

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Unit II: Operators and Expressions (06 Hours)

Operators in C

• Arithmetic operators
• Relational operators
• Logical operators
• Assignment operators
• Increment and decrement operators
• Conditional (ternary) operator
• Bitwise operators
• Special operators

Expressions

• Arithmetic expressions
• Evaluation of expressions
• Precedence of arithmetic operators
• Operator precedence and associativity
• Mathematical functions

Exemplar / Case Study

• Study of infix expressions
• Study of prefix expressions
• Study of postfix expressions

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Unit III: Control Flow (06 Hours)

Decision Making and Branching

• Simple if statement
• if–else statement
• else–if ladder
• switch statement
• goto statement

Decision Making and Looping

• while loop
• do–while loop
• for loop
• break statement
• continue statement

Exemplar / Case Study

• Design of a simple calculator
• Generating a calendar

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Unit IV: Arrays (06 Hours)

Arrays

• One-dimensional arrays
• Declaration of one-dimensional arrays
• Initialization of one-dimensional arrays
• Two-dimensional arrays
• Initialization of two-dimensional arrays

Character Arrays and Strings

• Declaration and initialization of string variables
• Reading strings from terminal
• Writing strings to screen
• Concatenation of strings
• Comparison of two strings
• Introduction to string handling functions

Exemplar / Case Study

• Matrix multiplication using arrays

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Unit V: User Defined Functions & Structures (06 Hours)

User Defined Functions

• Need for user-defined functions
• Multi-function programs
• Elements of user-defined functions
• Function definition
• Return values and their types
• Function calls
• Function declaration

Categories of Functions

• No arguments and no return values
• Arguments but no return values
• Arguments with return values
• No arguments but returns a value
• Functions returning multiple values
• Nesting of functions
• Recursion

Structures

• Introduction to structures
• Structure type declarations
• Structure declarations
• Referencing structure members
• Referencing whole structures
• Initialization of structures