C Language Fundamentals, Arrays and Strings Character set, Identifiers, Keywords, Data Types, Constant and Variables, Statements, Expressions, Operators, Precedence of operators, Input ¿ output Assignments, Control structures, Decision-making and Branching, Decision-making and looping. Declarations. Monolithic vs Modular programs, User defined vs standard functions, formal vs Actual arguments, Functions category, function prototypes, parameter passing, Recursion, Storage Classes: Auto, Extern, Global, Static. Character handling in C. String handling functions. Pointers, Structures, Union and File handling Pointer variable and its importance, Pointer Arithmetic passing parameters, Declaration of structures, pointer to pointer, pointer to structure, pointer to function, unions dynamic memory allocations, unions, file handling in C. Development of Algorithms: Notations and Analysis, Storage structures for arrays-sparse matrices, Stacks and Queues: Applications of Stack: Prefix, Postfix and Infix expressions. Circular queue, Double ended queue.