CS101C: Computer Programming and Lab

Autumn 2025

Mondays (9:30AM - 10:20AM), Wednesdays (10:30AM to 11:20AM), and Fridays (11:30AM to 12:20PM)

Lab: Tuesdays (8:30AM - 11:05AM) / Thursdays (9:50AM to 12:25PM)

About the Course

Description:

This is an introductory course to problem solving with computers using C as the programming language. Topics include:

Developer essentials (tools that enable you to construct programs: editors, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), Unix shell, compiler toolchain, libraries.)
Programming in C: machine represetation, data types, control flow, operators, functions, recursion, pointers, structures, file handling
Application of programming skills learnt to solve selected problems in Engineering, Science, Text processing, and Numerical Computing

Details:

The course overview is here. The course syllabus (coming soon) discusses most of the details of the course, including a tentative schedule of topics, exam dates, and other administrative information. Announcements, assignment links, and discussion will be posted on Moodle/Github. If you have a question about a concept covered in lecture or about a detail of an assignment, check the discussion page first!

Instructor:

Nikhil Hegde and Achyut Mani Tripathi
nikhilh 'at' iitdh 'dot' ac 'dot' in, t 'dot' achyut 'at' iitdh 'dot' ac 'dot' in
Office hour (doubt clearing session): TBD (A1-618).

TAs:

Details will be posted in the discussion forum.

Lecture Schedule and Notes

Week 1 (4/8, 6/8, 8/8): Course Overview, Machine Representation, Basic data types and control flow. Slides