In this fast technology driven world the basic knowledge about computers and its programming plays a key role in any field of study. So Basic Computation & Principle of Computer Programming (CS 201) subject of the Mechanical Engineering Department under WBUT gives a platform to the students to enrich the basic computer programming language.

Recommended Books:

1. Introduction To Computing (TMH WBUT Series), E.Balagurusamy, TMH

2. Let us C by Kanetkar Y.

What you can expect in the examination?

This paper includes fundamentals of computer and basic C programming language. Apart from programming questions, short questions on operators, arrays and pointers and structures also comes in this paper. You can also expect some problems related to binary to octal conversion or vice versa or binary to decimal and vice versa etc.

How the paper looks like?

The pattern of the paper is fixed and is divided into 3 sections. The 1st section consists of 10 multiple choice questions of 1 mark each. The 2nd section consist of 4-6 questions of 5 mark each and any 3 of them have to be answered whereas in 3rd section too the number of questions vary from 4 to 6 but are of 15 marks each.

Time Duration

The total time allotted for the exam is 3 hours.