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INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
(Autonomous)
Four Year B.Tech I Semester End Examinations (Regular) November, 2018
Regulation: IARE R18
PROGRAMMING FOR PROBLEM SOLVING
Time: 3 Hours (Common to AE ME) Max Marks: 70
Answer ONE Question from each Unit
All Questions Carry Equal Marks
All parts of the question must be answered in one place only
UNIT I
1. Draw the block diagram and explain in detail the different components of a computer system.

What is an operator? Explain the different types of operators in C Language with a suitable
programming example.
2. What are the steps in creating and running a C program?
Write a C program for calculating the mean and median of numbers.
UNIT II
3. Explain the syntax of a switch statement with an example.
Write a C Program to evaluate simple expressions of the form "number operator number" using
necessary decision making constructs.
4. State the difference between entry and exit controlled loop with an example.
Write a C program to read the age of 15 persons and find out how many of them fall under the
following categories using while loop
Still a baby- age 0 to 5
ii) Attending school age 6 to 17
iii) Adult life-age 18 over
UNIT III
5. What are the different ways of passing parameters to a function? Explain.
Write a C program using the concept of functions to swap the values of variables without using
third variable.
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6. Discuss recursion concept in C with a suitable example.
What is a string? How to declare the strings using array and pointer? Discuss the string handling
functions. Write a C program to count the vowels in the given string.
UNIT IV
7. Explain the different ways of passing each member of a structure object as a separate argument
with suitable example.
Define NULL pointer. List any 4 advantages of using pointers? Write a C program to display
the pointer address before and after incrementing the pointer using arithmetic operation.
8. Explain in detail about array of structures and pointer to a structure with example.
Write a C program to store the following information(fields:bookname,page,price) of 100 books
using array of structures.
UNIT V
9. Explain the various file handling functions with its declarations and write C program to explain
them.
What are command line arguments? Write a program to check if a single argument is supplied
on the command line when the program is invoked.
10. Write a C Program to sort the given array in descending order using Bubble Sort.
With suitable programming example, explain how random read and write operations can be
performed in C Language using the file I/O system.