Center for Information and Language Engineering (CILE)

Diploma in Computer Application (DCA)

Semester I

DCA 01 Fundamentals of Computers - 4 credits

DCA 02 PC Packages- 4 credits

Semester II

DCA 03 C Programming - 4 Credits

DCA 04 Internet and Web Page Designing- 4 credits

DCA 04 Project and viva – 4 credits

DCA 01 Fundamentals of Computers 4

credits

UNIT–I

Brief History of Development of Computers, Computer System Concepts, Computer System

Characteristics, Capabilities And Limitations, Types of Computers, Basic Components of A
Computer System - Control Unit, ALU, Input/output Functions and Characteristics, Memory
RAM, ROM, EPROM, PROM and other types of Memory

UNIT II

Input/Output & Storage Units-: Keyboard, Mouse, Trackball, Joystick, Digitizing tablet,
canners, Digital Camera, MICR, OCR, OMR, Barcode Reader, Voice Recognition, Light pen,
Touch Screen, Monitors - characteristics and types of monitor -Digital, Analog, Size,
Resolution, Refresh Rate, Interlaced / Non Interlaced, Dot Pitch, Video Standard - VGA,
SVGA, XGA etc

UNIT III

Printers And Its Types -Dot Matrix, Inkjet, Laser, Plotter, Sound Card And Speakers, Storage
Fundamentals - Primary Vs Secondary Data Storage And Retrieval Methods - Sequential,
Direct And Index Sequential, Various Storage Devices - Magnetic Tape, Magnetic Disks,
Hard Disk Drives, Floppy Disks ,Optical Disks, Flash Drives Video Disk, MMC Memory
Cards, Physical Structure of Floppy & Hard Disk, Drive Naming Conventions In PC.
UNIT IV

Use of Communication and IT, Communication Process, Communication Types- Simplex,

Half Duplex, Full Duplex, Serial And Parallel Communication, Types Of Network - LAN, W
AN, MAN ,Internet, Topologies of LAN - Ring, Bus, Star, Mesh And Tree Topologies,
Components of LAN -Media, , World Wide Web and Applications and Internet Services.

Reference and Text Book

Rajaraman, V. (2014). Fundamental of Computer. New Delhi: Prentice Hall India Pvt. Limited.

DCA 2 PC Packages
4 credits

Office Packages:

Office activates and their software requirements, Word-processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation

graphics, Database, introduction and comparison of various office suites like MS-Office, Lotus-
Office, Star-Office, Open-Office etc

MS Word Basics:

Introduction to MS Office, Introduction to MS Word, Features & area of use. Working with MS
Word, Menus & Commands, Toolbars & Buttons, Shortcut Menus, Wizards & Templates,
Creating a New Document, Different Page Views and layouts, Applying various Text
Enhancements, Working with -Styles, Text Attributes, Paragraph and Page Formatting, Text
Editing using various features ; Bullets, Numbering, Auto formatting, Printing & various print
options

UNIT II

Advanced Features of MS-Word: Spell Check, Thesaurus, Find & Replace; Headers &
Footers, Inserting - Page Numbers, Pictures, Files, Autotexts, Symbols etc., Working with
Columns, Tabs & Indents, Creation & Working with Tables including conversion to and from
text, Margins & Space management in Document, Adding References and Graphics, Mail
Merge, Envelops & Mailing Labels. Importing and exporting to and from various formats.

UNIT III

MS Excel: Introduction and area of use, Working with MS Excel, Toolbars, Menus and
Keyboard Shortcuts, concepts of Workbook & Worksheets, Using Wizards, Various Data Types,
Using different features with Data, Cell and Texts, Inserting, Removing & Resizing of Columns
& Rows, Working with Data & Ranges, Different Views of Worksheets, Column Freezing,
Labels, Hiding, Splitting etc., Using different features with Data and Text, Cell Formatting
including Borders & Shading,
UNIT IV

MS PowerPoint: Introduction & area of use, Working with MS PowerPoint, Creating a New
Presentation, Working with Presentation, Using Wizards; Slides & its different views, Inserting,
Deleting and Copying of Slides; Working with Notes, Handouts, Columns & Lists, Adding
Graphics, Sounds and Movies to a Slide; Working with PowerPoint Objects, Designing &
Presentation of a Slide Show, Printing Presentations, Notes, Handouts with print options.

Text and Reference books

Windows XP complete Reference ,BPB Publication

MS OFFICE XP Complete BPB Publication

MS WINDOWS XP Home Edition Compete, BPB Publication.

DCA 03 C Programming
4 credits

UNIT I

History of C, where C stands C character set, tokens, constants, variables, keywords, identifiers,
C operators- arithmetic, logical, assignment, relational, increment and,decrement, conditional, bit
wise, special, operator precedence, C expressions data types.

UNIT II

Problem solving techniques : flowchart and algorithm, Formatted input, formatted output
instructions

UNIT III

Decision making and branching if-statement – if, if-else, else-if ladder, nested if else, switch case
statement, break statement,Decision making

UNIT IV

looping - while, do, do- while statement, for loop, continue statement

Text and Reference books

Programming in C Paperback – 2011 by J.B. Dixit

Programming in ANSI C by Balagurusamy

DCA 04 Internet and Web Page Designing 4 credits

Unit – I

Internet ,Evolution, Protocols, Interface Concepts, Internet Vs Intranet, Growth of Internet, ISP,
Connectivity – Dial-up, Leased line, VSAT etc. URLs, Domain names, Portals, Application.E-
Mail • Concepts, POP and WEB Based E-mail, merits, address, Basic of Sending & Receiving, E-
mail Protocols, Mailing List, and Free E-mail services, FTP.

Unit – II

World Wide Web (WWW) , History, Working, Web Browsers, Its functions, Concept of Search
Engines. Searching the Web, HTTP, URLs, Web Servers, Web Protocols.

Unit – III

Web Publishing Concepts, Domain name Registration, Space on Host Server for Web site,
HTML, Design tools, HTML editors, Image editors, Issues on Web site creations & Maintenance,
FTP software for upload web site.

Unit – IV

HTML Concepts of Hypertext, Versions of HTML, Elements of HTML syntax, Head & Body
Sections, Building HTML documents, Inserting texts, Images, Hyperlinks, Backgrounds and
Colour controls, Different HTML tags, Table layout and presentation, Use of font size &
Attributes, List types and its tags.

DCA 04 Project and viva – 4 credits