Course

Unit I

Review of Physical Computing, Understanding Arduino Hardware and Software Architecture – Verifying Hardware and Software – Loading and Running your First Program

Introduction to C – Structure of C programs – Data types – I/O – control structures.

Unit II

Arrays – Functions – Storage Classes and Scope – Recursion – Pointers: Introduction, pointer arithmetic, arrays and pointers, pointer to functions, dynamic memory allocation.

Unit III

Structures, Unions and Data Storage – Strings: fixed length and variable length strings, strings and characters, string manipulation functions – Files and Streams – C Preprocessor – Command line arguments.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the procedural/imperative programming principles to the students through C programming language. The language will be taught in the context of Physical Computing using Arduino.

Course Outcomes

CO1: Understand the typical programming constructs: data (primitive and compound), control, modularity, recursion etc.

thereby to understand a given program.

CO2: Analyse a given program by tracing, identify coding errors and debug them.

CO3: Apply the programming constructs appropriately and effectively while developing computer program.

CO4: Develop computer programs that implement suitable algorithms for problem scenarios and applications.

CO-PO Mapping

Evaluation Pattern: 70:30

Textbook(s) 

Jack Purdum, “Beginning C for Arduino”, Second Edition, APress, 2015.

Reference(s)

Peter Linz and Tony Crawford, “C in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference”, Second Edition, O’Reily Media, 2016.

Jens Gustedt, “Modern C”, Manning Publications, 2019.

Robert C. Seacord, Effective C – “An Introduction to Professional C Programming”, No Starch Press, 2020.

Daniel Gookin, “Tiny C Projects”, Manning Publications, 2022.