B.C.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
First Semester
Computer Applications
PROGRAMMING IN C
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What are qualifiers?
2. State the purpose of including Stdio.h file in a program.
3. What is zero-based addressing?
4. What does the following statement define int emplist

5. What for "returns" is used in
6. Differentiate a structure from an array.
7. What are the operators exclusively used with pointers?
8. When *P1 =12 and P2 evaluate the expression
4 P2/P1 10.
9. Give the general format of a file pointer declaration.
10. Give the two forms of file inclusion.
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Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Explain the structure of a C program.
Or
Explain the if-else structure with an example.
12. How two dimensional arrays are declared and
initialized?
Or
Write a program to choose the largest/nearest to the
largest/smallest/nearest to the smallest of the given
n numbers.
13. State the rules that should be followed while
defining user-defined function.
Or
Compare structure with Union.
14. Explain pointers to functions.
Or
Write a program to reverse the string using
pointers.
15. Explain the functions fread( and fwrite(
Or
Write the advantages of preprocessors.
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Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. "C is rich in operators". Justify this statement.
17. Write a program to remove the duplicate elements in an
array.
18. Develop a structure called date with the members day,
month and year and display the date after reading.
19. Explain pointer to an array using an example.
20. Explain conditional compilation with suitable examples.
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