Tamil Nadu Open University was established to impart higher education for the aspirants whose economical condition is weak, working men and women etc. Data Structures through C is based on the C programming language.  

Paper Description:

The basic fundamental of C language and its structure, types and functions are included in the first part of this course. Just next to it the paper deals with the detailed information about arrays and pointers. Different types of sorting, searching and tree are also amongst the important block under this paper. The paper also provides information about the implementation, structure of stack and queue.

Paper Pattern:

The MCA Ist Year-Data Structures through C (MCA 03) Papers is particularly carries a total of two groups. The group ‘A’ part consists of six questions, out of which one should have to answer only four questions. All the four questions in this group hold equal marks. The second and last part carries a maximum of five questions. The appearing candidates are asked to attempt only four questions. Every question is of 10 marks. The first part of the paper is basically of short answer type and the last part holds long and subjective type questions.

Frequently asked questions:

The questions are repeatedly asked in this MCA Ist Year-Data Structures through C (MCA 03) Papers are breath and depth first search, comparison of while and do while loop, various structures of queue, stack etc. There are also few important questions that are altering every year are call by value and call by reference, bubble sort and different kind of searching etc.

Total marks and Time allotted:

The full numbers allotted against the Data Structures through C (MCA 03) Papers is 60 and the time duration adjusted is three hours.

Books Recommended:

• Data Structures Using C Yedidyah Langsam, Moshe J. Augenstein,Aaron M. Tenenbaum, PHI
• Data Structures, Dale and Lilly