Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Technology

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Subject: Programming for Problem Solving (BE01000121), Sem. 2ND
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Assignment: 1 (Unit 1and 2)

Syllabus Content :( Introduction to programming, Basics of C Programming)

Q-1. Explain what is Algorithm and flowchart? Explain both with some suitable example.
Q-2. Categorize the major components of computer system and give their function.
Q-3. Explain the structure of ‘C’ program.
Q-4. Draw all symbols used in flowchart and draw flowchart to find factorial number.
Q-5 Write a program to calculate the sum of the series 1+1/2+...+1/n.
Q-6 Explain the statement: “‘C’ is a middle level language”.
Q-7 What do you mean by constants in C language? Explain types of constants in detail.
Q-8 What is the difference between compiler and interpreter?
Q-9 Explain #define and #include directive with example.
Q-10 What is type conversion? Explain giving example.
Q-11 What is sizeof operator? How it is useful?
Q-12 What is conditional operator? Explain with example.

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Assignment: 2 (Unit 3 & 4)

Syllabus Content :( Control Structures, Functions & Modular Programming)

Q-1. Explain switch statement with example.

Q-2. Explain multiple if…else with example.
Q-3. What is loop? Why the looping structures are needed?
Q-4. Write the syntax of for loop. How it differs from while loop?
Q-5 Give differences between while and do…while loop.
Q-6 Compare break statement with continue statement.
Q-7 What is function? What is user-defined function?
Q-8 What is function prototype?
Q-9 Explain the difference between call by value and call by reference with example
Q-10 What do you mean by recursive function? Explain with example.

Q-11 What do you mean by local and global variables? Compare them.(or Explain scope, visibility
and life time of variables.)

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Assignment: 3 (Unit 5, 6 & 7)

Syllabus Content :( Array & Strings, Pointers, Structures and Unions)

What is an array? Explain one dimensional and two dimensional array declarations and
Q-1.
initialization with suitable example.
Q-2. What is a string? Explain at least 4 built-in string functions with example
Q-3. What is pointer? Explain how pointers are declared and initialized.
Q-4. In pointer arithmetic which operations are not valid?
Q-5. Explain array of pointer with example.
Q-6. Write a program in ‘c’ to add two numbers using pointers.

Q-7. Write a program using pointer to read in an array of integers and print its elements in reverse
order.
Q-8. What is structure? How to access the elements of structure? How the size of a structure can be
determined in ‘C’ program?
Q-9. What is union? How it differs from structures?
Q-10. Explain with suitable example, pointer to structure and use of arrow -> operator.
Q-11. Explain null pointer with example.
Q-12. What is rvalue and lvalue?

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Subject: Programming for Problem Solving (BE01000121), Sem. 2ND
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Assignment: 4 (Unit 8, 9 & 10)

Syllabus Content :( File handling, Dynamic Memory Allocation, Debugging and Testing)

Q-1. What do you mean by File Management?

Q-2. What are the different modes in which a file can be opened?

Q-3. Compare standard I/O functions with File I/O functions.

Q-4. Show the usage of malloc( ) and calloc( ) with syntax.

Q-4. What is difference between static memory allocation and dynamic memory allocation? Give
example.
Q-6. What is test data, and why is it important to use diverse test data?
Q-7. What is unit testing, and why is it important?
Q-8. What is the 'divide and conquer' debugging method?
Q-9. What is the difference between unit testing and integration testing?
Q-10. Explain various file handling operations in ‘C’ giving example.

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