B-Tech Third Semester- Principals of Programming Languages Guidance

B-Tech Third Semester

Subject: Principals of Programming Languages

• Concepts of structural program development;
•  concept of data types;
•  precedence and associatively of operators;
•  conditional transfer; 
• deterministic and in-deterministic loops; 
• recursions; 
• functions and procedures - call by value, call by reference and their differences; programming for numerical methods; records.
• Data-type handling and various constructs (conditional, loop, functions etc);
•  pointers: concept of pointers and passing parameters using pointers, non-numeric processing, concept of arrays of pointers and pointers to pointers; 
• structures and unions – advantage of using structures, concept of information hiding, pointers to structures; 
• files - basic concept of various types of file access methods: sequential, indexed sequential, random, various statements for file handling