Programming Concepts and Database Management

I Introduction to Programming Languages: Overview of programming, logic development techniques (Algorithm, Pseudo codes, flow charts), Programming language classification (Machine language, Assembly language, high level languages), Translators (Assembler, interpreter, compiler).

Introduction to ‘C’ Programming: Introduction to ‘C’ programming, overview of ‘C’ language, Character Set, Variables and Constants. Keywords, Tokens, Literals, Expression and syntaxes, Data types, Operators, Control statements (if, multiple if, if-else, nested if’s, if –else- if ladder), switch-case statement.

Loops & Arrays: Loop in ‘C ‘(while, do-while, for loop), nested loop. Break, continue, exit statement. Introduction to arrays, single dimensional array.

Introduction to Database System: Introduction to database concept, File Processing System Vs DBMS, Advantages and Disadvantages of DBMS, Database Users and Administrators, History of Database Systems, Concept of Keys. Introduction to MS-Access, Difference between Access and large Commercial Databases.

Working with the Database: Database creation in MS-Access, Data Types, creating tables, entering data into table, editing data, viewing records, sorting records. Querying a data base, Creating forms, Generating reports in MS- Access, OLE.