Workshop on C Day -1

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On 1st February 2016, a workshop on “Pointers in C” was conducted for MCA-IV semester students by C- Club of Department of IT in Lab-6 from 2:45pm : 5:00pm. The workshop was an organized with an objective to prepare students for upcoming placement drives. Pointers are an essential component of C programming and novice C programmers find it difficult to understand the concepts of pointers. The workshop was aimed at making students comfortable with Pointers.
The resource persons of workshop were Prof. Rakesh Roshan and Prof. Chandra Mani Sharma. Total 94 students of MCA actively participated in the workshop.

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Feb

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2016

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

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Prof. Chandra Mani Sharma started the workshop with the basic concept of memory architecture and explained nicely various types of pointers including near, far, dandling and huge pointers. Prof. Sharma went on describing the four segments of memory architecture including Data Segment (DS), Code Segment (CS), Stack Segment (SS), and Extra Segment (ES). He further explained & (address of) and * (de-reference) operators related to pointers. He then took various examples related to pointer arithmetic and discussed problems on it. Students had several doubts and questions related to pointers which Prof. Sharma nicely addressed.
Prof. Rakesh Roshan elaborated the applications of pointers with array, string, and functions. He explained that for an integer array A, the name refers to the base address of array. The quantities A[i], *(A+i), *(i+A) and i[A] all refer to the ith element of an array. He illustrated many other advanced concepts with umpteen examples.