Introduction to C: Introduction to computers, input and output devices, designing efficient programs. Introduction to C, Structure of C program, Files used in a C program, Compilers, Compiling and executing C programs, variables, constants, Input/output statements in C.

Operators in C, Type conversion and typecasting.

Decision control and Looping statements: Introduction to decision control, Conditional branching statements, iterative statements, nested loops, break and continue statements, goto statement.

Functions: Introduction using functions, Function definition, function declaration, function call, return statement, passing parameters to functions, scope of variables, storage classes, recursive functions.

Arrays: Declaration of arrays, accessing the elements of an array, storing values in arrays, Operations on arrays, Passing arrays to functions.

Two dimensional arrays, operations on two-dimensional arrays, two-dimensional arrays to functions, multidimensional arrays.

Applications of arrays and introduction to strings: Applications of arrays, case study with sorting techinques.

Introduction to strings: Reading strings, writing strings, summary of functions used to read and write characters. Suppressing input using a Scanset.

Strings: String taxonomy, operations on strings, Miscellaneous string and character functions, arrays of strings.

Pointers: Understanding the Computers Memory, Introduction to Pointers, Declaring Pointer.

Variables: Introduction to structures