PROBLEM-SOLVING THROUGH PROGRAMMING 21PSP23/13 VTU Notes 2021 Scheme

PROBLEM-SOLVING THROUGH PROGRAMMING 21PSP23/13

Category	Details	Category	Details
Course Code	21PSP23/13	CIE Marks	50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P:S)	2:2:0:0	SEE Marks	50
Total Hours of Pedagogy	40	Total Marks	100
Credits	03	Exam Hours	03

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2021 Scheme Notes – PROBLEM-SOLVING THROUGH PROGRAMMING (Download👇)

Syllabus copy

21EME15/25 Syllabus

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Module 1

Introduction to Computer Hardware and Software

Introduction to Computer Hardware and Software: Computer generations, computer types, bits, bytes and words, CPU, Primary memory, Secondary memory, ports and connections, input devices, output devices, Computers in a network, Network hardware, Software basics, software types.

Overview of C: Basic structure of C program, executing a C program. Constant, variable and
data types, Operators and expressions.

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Module 2

Managing Input and output operations

Managing Input and output operations. Conditional Branching and Loops. Example programs,
finding roots of a quadratic equation, computation of binomial coefficients, plotting of Pascal’s
triangle.

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Module 3

Arrays

Arrays: Arrays (1-D, 2-D), Character arrays and Strings, Basic Algorithms: Searching and Sorting Algorithms (Linear search, Binary search, Bubble sort and Selection sort).

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Module 4

User Defined Functions and Recursion.

User Defined Functions and Recursion.
Example programs: Finding Factorial of a positive integer, GCD of two numbers and Fibonacci
sequence.

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Module 5

Structures, Unions and Pointers, Pre-processor Directives and Example Programs like Addition of two complex numbers using structures , compute the sum, mean and standard deviation of all elements stored in an array of N real numbers using pointers.

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