C Language

C Language

or

Fundamentals of Programming

IMP Questions List

1-3 Marks Short Question

1.  Write difference between algorithm and flowchart.
2. ·        Explain the importance of C language.
3. ·        What is format specifier?
4. ·        What are local and global variable?
5. ·        Define keyword, constant and variable.
6. ·        Write a short note on type casting.
7. ·        What is the difference between strlen() and sizeof() with example?
8. ·        Why do we use header files?
9. ·        Define relational operator.
10. ·        What is an interpreter?
11. ·        What is the purpose of adding comments in a program?
12. ·        Differentiate between comparison and equality operator.
13. ·        What is the syntax of switch statement?
14. ·        Differentiate between expression and statement.
15. ·        Distinguish between unary and binary minus.
16. ·        Write a program in C language to convert the given string in uppercase?
17. ·        What do you mean by formal arguments and the actual arguments?
18. ·        What do you mean by functions?
19. ·        What is parameter passing?
20. ·        Define array and how we can access elements of an array?
21. ·        What is the difference between character and string?
22. ·        Write difference between character and string?
23. ·        What is the purpose of the return statement?
24. ·        What is array overflow?
25. ·        Explain function prototyping.
26. ·        What are pros and cons of goto statement?
27. ·        What is the typedef declaration? Give suitable example.
28. ·        What is the role played by atoi() in string manipulation?
29. ·        Give the syntax and application of extern storage class?
30. ·        Distinguish between run time and logical errors.
31. ·        What is pointer?
32. ·        What are advantages of pointers?
33. ·        Define structure with syntax.
34. ·        Write a C program using pointers to multiply two integers.
35. ·        What are self-referential structures?
36. ·        Differentiate between structure and union.
37. ·        Define text & binary files.
38. ·        What do you mean by data file?
39. ·        What is purpose of library function feof()?
40. ·        What do you mean by enumerated data types?
41. ·        What is the use of fseek() and rewind() function?
42. ·        Define a structure student contain name and marks.
43. ·        Write advantage of union over structure.
44. ·        What do you mean by Dangling pointer?
45. ·        Is the following statement valid? Justify your answer

k= (char*) &m;

m= (float*) &p

5 Marks Question

1. ·        Discuss the structure of a C program. Explain with example.
2. ·        What do you mean by data types? Give examples of data types available in C language.
3. ·        Explain the various control statements used in c language.
4. ·        What is the difference between pre and post increment operator? Explain with the help of an example.
5. ·        What is the difference between break and continue statements? Explain with the help of an example.
6. ·        Write the advantage and disadvantage of for loop over while.
7. ·        Write difference between while and do while with example.
8. ·        What do you mean by ternary operator? Explain with example.
9. ·        What are user define function its advantages and write its different types.
10. ·        What are String functions and write some string function?
11. ·        Explain with example the concept of passing array to function.
12. ·        What is recursion? Write a program to find Fibonacci series till a given number using recursion.
13. ·        Explain with example the relationship of one dimensional array and pointers.
14. ·        Differentiate between pass by Value and pass by reference with the help of example.
15. ·        What is a pointer to an array and an array of pointers?
16. ·        What is the difference between static and dynamic memory allocation?
17. ·        What do you mean by structure? How does a structure differ from an array?
18. ·        Explain with examples the various file handling functions.
19. ·        What different function to handle errors in files?
20. ·        What are command line arguments?
21. ·        Explain by giving suitable example pointers with structures.
22. ·        How can we initialize array and structure?