The Department of Computer Science organized an academic session titled “Pointers in C” for the students of First Year B.Sc. (Computer Science).
The session was conducted by Mrs.Swati Patil, Assistant Professor, VCACS, Pune. Vice Principal Dr.Anand Buddhikot welcomed and felicitated Dr, Gambhire. HOD Mrs.Chitra Alawani and B.Sc.CS Coordinator Mr.Nilesh Nemade were also present on dias. Mrs.Shilpa Kannade compered the session and presented vote of thanks for the session.
Mrs.Swati Patil started her session with basics of C programming and then she explained the meaning of a pointer and Why pointers are used in C? She also emphasized on the Memory management with variables, address of variables with & operator. She systematically explained about declaration of a pointer with data types along with simple examples. She also emphasized on storing an address in a pointer and way to accessing value using * operator. She mentioned different types of Pointers with examples.
Mrs. Patil explained how pointers work with arrays and the way to access array elements using pointers. She also briefed on Pointers in Functions. With the difference between call by value and call by reference. Understand the concept of pointers and why they are used in C. Students got to know how to declare and initialize pointers correctly, how to use pointers to access and modify variables through addresses. They also got the exact difference between variables, addresses, and pointer variables. They also came to know how and when to apply pointers with arrays to access array elements. These outcomes ensured a strong foundation in pointers for C programming.
