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Courses » Introduction to Programming in C

Introduction to Programming in C

ABOUT THE COURSE

This is a course in programming in C. No prior programming experience is assumed; however, mathematical maturity at the level of a second year science or engineering undergraduate is assumed.
We emphasize solving problems using the language, and introduce standard programming techniques like alternation, iteration and recursion. We will briefly glimpse the basics of software engineering practices like modularization, commenting, and naming conventions which help in collaborating and programming in teams. 
Given a problem, we pay attention to the following questions:

  1. What is an algorithmic solution to the problem?
  2. How do we translate the algorithm into C code?
  3. How efficient is the code?
  4. How maintainable is the code?
It is expected that by the end of the course, students will be comfortable in :-
  1. Attempting algorithmic solutions to problems
  2. Designing and coding moderate sized programs running to the order of a few hundred lines of code, and
  3. Reading, understanding and modifying code written by others.

40836 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR


Dr. Satyadev Nandakumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
I.I.T. Kanpur

PREREQUISITES:
No prior programming required; mathematical maturity of a second level UG student in science or engineering.

More details about the course

Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_cs43
Course duration: 08 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 24 July 2017-15 September 2017
Date of exam: 24 September, 2017
Time of exam: Shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course

Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Registration url - Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.


Certificate

E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score.

Final score = 25% assignment score + 75% exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 6 out of 8 assignments 

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.


SYLLABUS OUTLINE

  1. Introduction. Straight-Line Code. Variables, Operators, Expressions and Conditionals.
  2. Loops
  3. Functions
  4. One-Dimensional Arrays and Pointers
  5. Recursion
  6. Multi-dimensional Arrays, Linked Lists.
  7. Operating on Files
  8. Organizing C projects, working with multiple source directories, makefiles.