Bangalore University 2007 Certification Computing PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS USING C - Question Paper

I SEMESTER B.C.A DEGREE exam ,NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007
(Y2K7 SCHEME)(2007-08 AND ONWARDS)
COMPUTER SCIENCE
PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS USING C
TIME three HRS
MAX MARKS:80

INSTRUCTION:ALL parts ARE COMPULSORY(MARKS:8*3=24)

SECTION-A

ans ANY 8 ques.

1.WHAT IS AN ALGORITHM?GIVE ITS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
2.EXPLAIN THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF A C PROGRAM
3.LIST THE FORMAT SPECIFIER FOR SCANF () FOR various DATA kind
4.DIFFERENTIATE ranging from SWITCH AND IF-ELSE
5.WHAT ARE NESTED FOR() LOOP?
6.EXPLAIN THE RULES FOR NAMING AND DECLARING AN ARRAY
7.GIVE THE DIFFERENCES ranging from A CHARACTER AND A STRING .ILLUSTRATE WITH AN EXAMPLE
8.WHAT IS RECURSIVE FUNCTION?
9.EXPLAIN STRUCT DATA kind IN C
10.HOW IS A POINTER VARIABLE DECLARED ?EXPLAIN WITH SUITABLE EXAMPLE

SECTION-B

ans ANY 4 QUESTION:(MARKS:4*!4=56)

11
a)EXPLAIN THE various kinds OF CONSTANT AND VARIABLE IN O .ILLUSTRATE WITH AN EXAMPLE.
b)WRITE A C PROGRAM TO obtain WHETHER A provided NUMBER IS APRIME OR NOT.OUTPUT THE NUMBER WITH A SUITABLE MESSAGE

12
a)EXPLAIN THE FUNCTIONS USED TO learn AND WRITE A CHARACTER IN C WITH EXAMPLES
b)WRITE A C PROGRAM TO obtain THE ROOT OF A QUADRATIC formula (USE NESTED IF)

13.
a)DIFFERENTIATE ranging from WHILE AND DO-WHILE LOOPS.ILLUSTATE WITH AN EXANMPLE
b)WRITE A C PROGRAM TO calculate THE subsequent SERIES
1!+2!+3+......................+N!

14
a)GIVE THE SYNTAX OF DECLARING A 2-D ARRAY AND SHOW THE REPRESENTATION OF A 2-D ARRAY IN MEMORY
b)WRITE A PROGRAM TO learn A MATRIX ANFD obtain ITS TRANSPOSE .OUTPUT BOTH THE ORIGINAL MATRIX AND ITS TRANSPOSE

15
a)WHAT ARE FORMAL AND true ARGUMENTS ?EXPLAIN .COMPARE THEM AND ILLUSTRATE WITH AN
EXAMPLE
b)WRITE A FUNCTION TO obtain THE FACTORIAL OF A NUMBER.CALL IT IN THE MAIN PROGRAM
TO calculate THE BINOMIAL CO-EFFICIENT:
nCr=n!/(r!*(n-r)!)

16.
a)DISTINGUISH ranging from A STRUCTURE AND A UNION.GIVE EXAMPLE
b)COMPARE LOCAL AND GLOBAL VARIABLES
c)WRITE A C PROGRAM TO obtain LENGTH OF A STRING WITHOUT USING BUILT-IN FUNCTION

Earning:   Approval pending.