Computer Programming and Programming Methodology (CPPM)

Introduction to C language

12 topics

• Concepts of Programming Language: Source Code, Object Code, executable code
• Concepts of Structured Programming Language
• Concepts of Editor, Interpreter and Compiler
• Introduction of C program body structure
• Character Set, concepts of variables and constants
• Identifiers, literals, Keywords
• Data types (signed and unsigned): Numeric (int, short int, long, float, double), Character (char, string), void
• Operators (Arithmetic, Logical, Relational, Bitwise, Assignment, Ternary, sizeof())
• Header files (STDIO, CONIO), pre-compiler directives (#include, #define)
• Input statements: scanf(), getc(), getch(), gets(), getchar()
• Output Statements: printf(), putc(), puts(), putchar()
• Type specifiers (formatting strings): %d, %ld, %f, %c, %s, %lf

Decision Making and Iterative statements

5 topics

• if statements: simple if, if-else, if-else if-else, Nested if
• Switch-case statements: break and default
• Iterative statements: while, do-while, for loop
• Nested while, do-while and for loops
• Jumping statements: goto, break, continue

Concepts of Arrays and Pointer

8 topics

• One dimensional array of numbers and characters: declaration, initialization
• Operations on one dimensional array (bubble sort, selection sort, linear search)
• Two-Dimensional Numeric and character Array: declaration, initialization
• Operations on Two-Dimensional arrays (addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose, search, merge string)
• Concepts of Pointers
• Declaring and initializing int, float, char and void pointers
• Pointer arithmetic
• Pointer to single dimensional numeric array

Functions and Structure

8 topics

• Concept of functions
• Built-in String functions: strlen, strcmp, strcpy, strcat, strrev
• Mathematical functions: abs(), floor(), round(), ceil(), sqrt(), exp(), log(), sin(), cos(), tan(), pow(), trunc()
• User Defined Functions: return type, parameter list, local variables
• Passing arguments: pass by value, pass by reference
• Recursive function
• Concept of Structure and Union: defining, declaring, initializing, accessing
• Difference between structure and union

Previous-year question papers

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• November 2025Major - 104 Computer Programming & Programming Methodology (CPPM) (TH)
• March 2024MAJOR-104-COMPUTER PROGRAMMING & PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY (CPPM)(TH)

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