Syllabus for IT Sem I and II 2019 Kumaun University Nainital

Information Technology Department

Semester - I

Paper 1. Fundamentals of I.T.

UNIT – I Information Concepts and Computer Appreciation: Defining I.T., Information Systems, Data and Information, Representation of information, Elements of electronic data processing, Types of Processing, Introduction to Computer h/w and s/w.

UNIT – II Generation and Classification of Computers: Generations of computer, Classification of computer, Home computers and PCs, Characteristics of Portables, Micro, Mini, Mainframe, Super computers.

UNIT – III Computer and Communication: Brief introduction of ports of Pcs : Serial, Parallel, NIC, Power cord, Plug – in, Switches and Bridges, Modem, LAN card, Ethernet card, Cables and its types, Data Transmission, Use of computer network, Sharing of files, printer, device / drive, Brief idea of internet, Common uses of internet : E – mail, Chatting, Surfing.

UNIT – IV I.T. Application: I.T. in Business and industry, I.T. in home and play, I.T. in education and training, I.T. in entertainment and arts, I.T. in Science and Engineering, E- Commerce, E-Organizations, Concept of Multimedia, components of multimedia: Text, Graphics, Animation, Video, multimedia applications, Audio Signal processing, acquiring and storing Audio Signals, Speech analysis and recognition.

Paper 2. Office Automation and Management

UNIT – I: The need and importance of Office automation, Role of computer in Office automation and management, Office automation. CUI, DOS organization, DOS Commands, Concept of GUI, Basic concept of Windows, Control panel, Clipboard, Accessories. Word Processing Software: Creating and Saving documents, Entering, Editing, Moving, Copying and Formatting text, Page formatting, Finding and replacing text, Spell check and Grammar checking, enhancing and Editing in document, Indexing , Columns, Tables and feature, Inserting (Objects, Picture, files etc.), Using graphics, templates and wizard, using Mail Merge, using WordArt, customizing, MS Word. Designing pages with MS Publisher, Inserting and Manipulating Objects, Editing Fills and re – coloring pictures.

UNIT – II : Spread Software: Spreadsheet terminology, organization of the worksheet area, entering information, editing cells using commands and functions, moving copying, inserting and deleting rows and columns, formatting worksheet, printing worksheet, creating charts, modifying and enhancing charts, using date, time and addressing modes, naming range and using statistical, mathematical and financial functions, database in a worksheet, creating, sorting, querying and maintaining the database, multiple worksheets and Macros, working with objects.

UNIT – III : Presentation Software: Anatomy of a PowerPoint Presentation, Creating and viewing a presentation, Managing slide shows, navigation through a presentation, using hyperlinks, advanced navigation with action setting and action buttons, organizing formats with master Slides, applying and modifying designs, adding graphics, multimedia and special effects, creating presentation for the web.

Unit – IV : Office System user interface, Managing security and privacy in the MS Office system, Sharing documents between office system Components and different versions of the office system.

Paper 3. Principles of Programming Language

UNIT – I : Importance of programming languages, Brief history and features, attributes of good programming language, introduction to language translator, binding and binding time. Language translation issues: Formal translation models – BNF grammars, regular grammar, FSA.

UNIT – II: Elementary and structured data types, their specification, representations and implementation of numbers, vectors and arrays, records, character string, variable size data structures, sets, input output files. Type checking and type conversion, type equivalence. Encapsulation and information hiding, sub program.

UNIT – III: Implicit and explicit sequence control, Subprogram sequence control. Recursive sub programs, exception and exception handlers, Co-routines and scheduled subprograms, task and concurrent exceptions.

UNIT – IV : Name and reference environments, static, dynamic and block structures, Local data and local referencing environment, Parameters and their transmission, Task and shared data storage requirement for major runtime elements. Program and system controlled storage management, Static and stack based storage management, fixed size and variable size heap storage management.

II Semester

Paper 1. Computer Organization and Architecture

UNIT – I : Computer Hardware: Concept of hardware and function of different part of computer system, Different parts of computer, Input and Output devices, Driver and Drives in computer.

UNIT – II Computer Software: Introduction to software, System software and its examples, Features of System software, Application software and its examples, features of application software, Role of software in I.T.

UNIT – III Processing Unit: Concept of CPU, Control Unit, Arithmetic and Logic unit, instruction set, Registers, Processor speed, Types of processors, Main Memory: Storage, Capacity and Main Memory Organization.

UNIT – IV Representation of Data: Digital versus analog, Concept of number system, Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal numbers, Conversion from one form to another, fractional numbers, signed numbers, Complements, Arithmetic operations on Binary numbers.

Paper 2. Programming Through ‘C’

UNIT – I C Fundamentals: Scope of C Language, distinction and similarities with other HLLs, special features and application areas, Character set, identifiers and keywords, data types, constants, variables and arrays, declarations, Operators and expressions, Library functions, Statements, Symbolic constants, Preprocessor directives, formatted input, Output, Basic data types, Type conversion, Data type Modifiers, Expressions and operators, Precedence of C operators.

UNIT – II Control Statements: If, If – else, While, do-while, go to, for Statements, nested control structures, switch, break, continue statements, comma operator, types of Loops.

UNIT – III Arrays and Structures: Defining – Processing array, passing array to functions, introduction to multidimensional arrays, arrays and strings, Structures and unions, defining and processing a structure.

UNIT – IV Functions and File Handling: Basic concepts, declaration and prototypes, calling and passing arguments to a function by value, recursion, types of files, file organization, Opening, Reading, Writing and Closing files.

Paper 3. Basics of Computer Networks

UNIT – I Computer Communication: Concept of communication, Data Communication, data transmission, types of signals in communication, Methods and modes of data transfer, simplex, half duplex, full duplex.

UNIT – II Networks: Network components, Network topologies, Switching techniques, three layers of networking components : application Software, network software, network hardware, Ethernet, FDDI, Wireless Services.

UNIT – III Types of Networks: LAN, WAN, MAN, VAN, types of LAN, LAN implementation, LAN topologies, LAN devices: repeater, hub, bridges, routers, gateways, Internetworking: architecture and protocols.

UNIT – IV TCP/IP and Internetworking: Examples of TCP/IP operations, related protocols, IP address structure, major features of IP, IP datagram, major IP services, value of transport layer, TCP, major features of TCP, route discovery protocol, examples of root discovery protocols, IPv6 .

Syllabus for IT Sem I and II 2019 Kumaun University Nainital