Sunday, June 9, 2013

data structures syllabus

PART – A
C Language Features

UNIT 1:
1.       Pointers: Concepts, Pointer variables, Accessing variables through pointers, Pointer declaration and definition, Initialization of pointer variables, Pointers and functions, Pointer to pointers, Compatibility, Lvalue and Rvalue, Arrays and pointers, Pointer arithmetic and arrays, Passing an array to a function, Understanding complex declarations, Memory allocation functions, Array of pointers.
7 Hours
UNIT 2:
2.       Strings: String concepts, C strings, String I/O functions, Array of strings, String manipulation function, Memory formatting.
2 Hours
3.       Derived types-Enumerated, Structure, and Union:  The type definition, Enumerated types, Structure, Accessing structures, Complex structures, Array of structures, Structures and functions, Unions
3 Hours
4.       Binary Files:  Classification of Files, Using Binary Files, Standard Library Functions for Files
2 Hours
UNIT 3:
5.       The Stack: Definition and Examples, Representing Stacks in C, An Example – Infix, Postfix, and Prefix
6 Hours

UNIT 4:
6.       Recursion: Recursive Definition and Processes, Recursion in C, Writing Recursive Programs, Simulating Recursion, Efficiency of Recursion
http://improvec.blogspot.in/2011/08/recursive-functions.html
4 Hours

7.       Queues: The Queue and its Sequential Representation
                                                2 Hours


PART – B

UNIT 5:
8.       Lists: Linked Lists, 
http://rajdsinc.blogspot.in/2012/05/linked-list.html
Lists in C, 
An Example – Simulation using Linked Lists                                         
7 Hours

UNIT 6:
9.       Lists contd.: Other List Structures
                                                                                                               

UNIT 7:
10. Trees: Binary trees, Binary Tree Representations                                                                                                                                                           
6 Hours



UNIT 8:
11.    Trees contd.: Representing Lists as Binary Trees, Trees and their applications
                                                                                                                7 Hours

http://rajdsinc.blogspot.in/2012/10/avl-trees_22.html

Record questions
http://rajdsinc.blogspot.in/2012/06/data-structures-record-questions.html
previous question papers
http://rajdsinc.blogspot.in/2011/12/ds-previous-question-papersdiploma.html

Text Books

1.     Computer Science A Structured Programming Approach Using C, Second Edition, Behrouz A. Forouzan and Richard F. Gilberg, , Thomson, 2003
(Chapter 9.1 to 9.9, Chapter 10.1 to 10.6, Chapter 11.1 to 11.6, Chapter 12.1 to 12.8, Chapter 13.1 to 13.3).

2.     Data Structure using C, Aaron M. Tenenbaum, Yedidyah Langsam & Moshe J. Augenstein, Pearson Education/PHI, 2006.
(Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5).



Reference Books

3.     Data Structures A Pseudocode approach with C, Richard F. Gilberg and Behrouz A. Forouzan, Thomson, 2005.
4.     Data Structures & Program Design in C, Robert Kruse & Bruce  Leung, Pearson Education, 2007.







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