C Programming Language :

Syllabus : ( As per old syllabus)

Programming in C; Functions, Recursion, Parameter passing, Scope, Binding .

1 What Books To Read :

Book Name :
1 K N King : 2nd edition
Chapter - 1 to 14 , chapter 17 and 18
chapter 8, 9 , 10, 11, 12 are very important for gate exam purpose .

2 Dennis M Ritchie : 2nd edition

Chapter 1 to 6
Video: NPTEL MOOC IITK CS 101- programming in C

2. Important Topics for that subject to read along with Chapter Subparts
:
Function K N King Chapter - 9 : 9.1, 9.2 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 - 4.1,
4.2
Recursion K N King Chapter - 9.6 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 -4.10
Parameter Passing K N King Chapter - 9.3 , 9.4, 9.5 / Dennis Ritchie : ch
apter 1- 1.8
Scope K N King Chapter - 10: 10.1 to 10.4 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 -4.3
to 4.7
Binding K N King Chapter - 10.5 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 - 4.8 , 4.9
Pointer K N King Chapter - 11: 11.1 to 11.5 , Chapter 17 : 17.1 to 17.8 /
Dennis Ritchie : chapter 5 - 5.1 to 5.5
Array - 1D array chapter 8 - 8.1 , 2 D Array 8.2 , 8.3
Pointers and Arrays K N King Chapter - 12: 12.1 to 12.5 / Dennis Ritchie :
chapter 5 - 5.6 to 5.9

3 . Types of problems from where questions came in previous years :

C programming Questions are logical and mostly based on finding outputs which c
ontain some pointers, static variables, arrays, strings, functions etc.
Important Topics are:
Pointer
Array- 1D and 2D Array
Array- row and column major order
memory location sums
1D, 2D array location sums
moving no of memory locations based on given program
pointers and arrays
switch statement
pass-by-value, pass-by-pointer/ reference
global initialization
typecasting
short circuit rule
array to pointer conversion on function call
Register variable
String literals
Loop inveriant
scope : - static and dynamic scoping,
Binding,
Function ,
Recursion,
parameter passing .

A small NOTE for GATE Exam purpose ---> "C" is included in GATE syllabus as one
language for checking programming compatibility- not to see if a student is mast
er in C. For the same reason, GATE COMMITTEE don't ask questions related to C li
brary functions or anything too specific to C. So, GATE C portions are always fr
om a small subset of C.
The best way to practice C programming question is take questions from previous
year Gate papers and try to solve them and try to do programming on Compiler.
It will increase your skills and accuracy.