BCA Semester-II^nd - C Programming Syllabus

Here you will find the syllabus of first subject in BCA Semester-II^nd, which is C Programming.

Important - The syllabus may vary from college to college.

C Programming Units

This course/subject is divided into total of 6 units as given below:

1. Arrays
2. Pointers
3. Strings
4. Structures
5. Introduction to C Preprocessor
6. File Handling

Now let's expand the above listed units with its syllabus.

Unit-I Syllabus - Arrays

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-I, that is arrays:

• Definition
• Declaration and initialization of one dimensional (1D) array
• Accessing array elements
• Displaying array elements
• Sorting arrays
• Arrays and function
• Two-Dimensional (2D) array
  • Declaration and Initialization
  • Accessing and Displaying
  • Memory representation of array [Row Major, Column Major]
• Multidimensional array

Unit-II Syllabus - Pointers

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-II, that is pointers:

• Definition and declaration
• Initialization
• Indirection operator
• Address of operator
• Pointer arithmetic
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Arrays and pointers
• Function and pointers

Unit-III Syllabus - Strings

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-III, that is strings:

• Definition
• Declaration
• Initialization
• Standard library function
  • strlen()
  • strcpy()
  • strcat()
  • strcmp()
• Implementation without using standard library functions

Unit-IV Syllabus - Structures

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-IV, that is structures:

• Definition
• Declaration
• Variables initialization
• Accessing fields and structure operations
• Nested structures
• Union
  • Definition and declaration
  • Differentiate between Union and structure

Unit-V Syllabus - Introduction to C Preprocessor

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-V, that is introduction to C preprocessor:

• Definition of Preprocessor
• Macro substitution directives
• File inclusion directives
• Conditional compilation
• Bitwise Operators
  • Bitwise operators
  • Shift operators
  • Masks
  • Bit field

Unit-VI Syllabus - File Handling

Here are the list of topics that comes under the syllabus of unit-V, that is file handling:

• Definition of files
• Opening modes of files
• Standard function
  • fopen()
  • fclose()
  • feof()
  • fseek()
  • fewind()
• Using text files
  • fgetc()
  • fputc()
  • fscanf()
• Command line arguments