Programming for Problem Solving

[As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) scheme]

(Effective from the academic year 2022-2023)
SEMESTER – I/II
Subject Code 22PPS15/25 CIE Marks 50
Number of Lecture Hours/Week 3 SEE Marks 50
Total Number of Lecture Hours 40 Exam Hours 3
CREDITS – 03
Course objectives: This course will enable students to
● Understand the concepts of Problem Solving.
● Apply Programming constructs of C language to solve the real-world problems.
● Explore the user defined data structures like arrays, structures, and pointers in implementation
solutions to problems.
● Design and Develop Solutions to problems using modular programming constructs such as
functions and procedures.

Module I Teaching
Hours
Fundamentals of Problem Solving :Problem solving Methodology: Introduction to
Problem solving, Problem definition, Problem Analysis, Design of a Solution,
Algorithms, Flowcharts, Development of Programs(Coding, testing, debugging),
Characteristics of a Good Program, Types of Errors, Approaches to Problem solving 8 Hours
( Top-down, Bottom-up, Modular, Structured)
Overview of C: Basic Structure of C Program, C-tokens, variable and data types,
Operators, and expressions.
Module II
Managing input and output operations. Unformatted and Formatted Input and Output.
Control Statements: Decision Making with if statement, Simple if statement, the if else and
nested if statements, the else if ladder, Switch statement, Unconditional control Statements. 8 Hours
Decision Making and Looping: while statement, do-while statement, for statement, jumps in
loops, Example programs.
Module III
Arrays: One dimensional Array, declaration, Initialization, Two dimensional Arrays
notations and representations, manipulating with arrays, Example programs.
8 Hours
Strings: Declaring and Initializing String Variables, Reading Strings from Terminal,
Writing strings to Screen, String-handling functions, Example programs.
Module IV
Functions: Definition of function, Elements of User Defined Functions, Parameter
Passing techniques, Categories of functions, recursive function, programming
examples. 8 Hours
Pointers: Introduction to pointers, declaring pointer variables, Types of pointers,
Passing arguments to functions using pointers programming examples.
Module V
 Structures and Unions: Initialization. Defining a Structures, Declaration of
Structure variables, Accessing Structure Members, Structure Initialization, Copying
and comparing structure variables, operations on individual members Unions: Union,
8 Hours
Size of Structures, bit fields , Programming examples.
Files: Introduction to files, using files in C, reading and writing data files. , Detecting
end of file
Course Outcomes

After studying this course, students will be able to:

CO 1: Understand the fundamental concepts of problem solving.
CO 2: Identify and use proper decision /control constructs for solving different type of problems.
CO 3: Explore the concepts of arrays and strings in the implementation of solutions to given problems.
CO 4: Apply functions and pointer concepts for a given problem.
CO 5: Create a solutions for real world problem using Structures and file operations
TEXTBOOKS:
1. Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie: The C Programming Language, Prentice Hall of
India.
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2. E. Balaguruswamy: Programming in ANSI C, 7 Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Vikas Gupta: Computer Concepts & C Programming, Dreamtech Press 2013
2. R S Bichkar: Programming with C, University Press, 2012.
3. Perter Norton: Introduction to Computers, by Peter Norton 7th edition.
4. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
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5. Jacqueline Jones and Keith Harrow: Problem Solving with C, 1 Edition, Person 2011.
6. Behrouz A. Forouzan, Richard F. Gilberg: Computer Science - A Structured Approach Using C,
3rd Edition, Cengage Learning, 2007.