C and Advanced C

History and features of C

Structure of a C program

Compilation and execution process

Setting up IDE (e.g., Code::Blocks, GCC)

Basic data types (int, float, char, etc.)

Variables and constants

Type conversions

Format specifiers

Arithmetic, relational, logical operators

Assignment, increment/decrement, bitwise, and conditional operators

Operator precedence and associativity

• if, if-else, nested if-else
• switch statement
• while, do-while, for loops
• break, continue, and goto

Function declaration and definition

Parameter passing (call by value)

Recursion

Scope and storage classes

One-dimensional and multidimensional arrays

String handling and manipulation

String functions (strlen, strcpy, strcmp, etc.)

Pointer declaration and usage

Pointer arithmetic

Pointers and arrays

Pointers and functions

Defining and using structures

Nested structures

Array of structures

Unions and typedef

File operations (fopen, fclose, fread, fwrite, fprintf, etc.)

File pointers

Binary vs text file operations