Unit 1- Logical Reasoning and Algorithmic Problem Solving .........DURATION (8 hours)

• Skill development – Examples related to Arithmetical Reasoning and Analytical Reasoning.

• Fundamentals of algorithms, flowcharts.

• Algorithmic Problem Solving: Arithmetic and Algebraic problems, Sorting and Searching problems, Games.

• Introduction to Computer Concepts -Introduction to Computer Hardware, Software and its Types.

1. Programming paradigms, Basic structure of C program, Process of compiling and running a C program, Features of C language.
2. Character set, C tokens, Keywords and Identifiers, Constants, Variables, Data types, Pre-processor directives.
3. Handling Input and Output operations- Formatted input/output functions, Unformatted input/output functions with programming examples using all functions.
4. Operators- Introduction to operator set, Arithmetic operators, Relational operators, Logical Operators, Assignment operators, Increment and Decrement operators, Conditional operators, Bit-wise operators, Special operators.
5. Expressions -Arithmetic expressions, evaluation of expressions, Precedence of arithmetic operators, Type conversion in expressions, Operator precedence and associativity

Unit 3- Programming Constructs DURATION 8Hours

1. Decision Making and Branching-Decision making with ‘if’ statement, Simple ‘if’ statement, the ‘if…else’ statement, nesting of ‘if…else’ statements, The ‘else if’ ladder, The ‘switch’ statement, The ‘?:’ operator, The ‘goto’ statement.

2. Decision making and looping- The ‘for’,’while’,’do-while’ statements with examples, Jumps in loops.

3. Arrays- Introduction to Arrays, Types of arrays, Declaration arrays, Initializing dimensional arrays (One Dimensional and Multidimensional Array) with examples.

4. String -Introduction, Declaration and Initializing String Variables using arrays, String operations and functions with examples.

Class Presentations

Unit 4 DURATION 8 Hours

1. Functions- Need for Functions, Types of functions (User Defined and Built –In), working with functions, Definition, declaration and its scope, Category of functions Storage classes (Automatic, Static, Extern, Register).

2. Recursion- Introduction, Example programs(Factorial, Fibonacci Series, Ackerman function merge sort or quick sort and other examples)

3. Pointers -Introduction ,Benefits of using pointers, Declaration and Initialization of pointers, Obtaining a value of a variable, Typecasting of a pointer, Arithmetic Operations using pointers, pointers and arrays, pointers and strings, pointers and functions.

Class Presentations

Unit 5 DURATION 8 Hours

Structures and Unions- Introduction, Structure definition, declaring structure variables, accessing structure members, Structure initialization, Copying and comparing structure variables, Arrays of structure, Arrays within structures, Structure within structures, Structures and functions.

Introduction to Unions: Comparison of Structure and Unions.