Syllabus Class XI Computer

Science(083) (2023-2024)
UT 1
Unit I: Computer Systems and Organisation
● Basic computer organisation: description of a computer
system and mobile system, CPU, memory, hard disk, I/O,
battery.
● Types of software: Application software, System software
and Utility software.
● Memory Units: bit, byte, MB, GB, TB, and PB.
● Boolean logic: NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, NOT, truth
tables and De Morgan’s laws, Logic circuits
● Number System: numbers in base 2, 8, 16 and binary
addition.
● Encoding Schemes : ASCII, ISCII and Unicode
● Features of Python, Python Character Set, Token & Identifiers,
Keywords, Literals, Delimiters, Operators.
● Comments: (Single line & Multiline/ Continuation statements),
Clarity & Simplification of expression
● Introduce the notion of a variable and methods to manipulate it
(concept of Lvalue and R-value even if not taught explicitly).
● Knowledge of data types and operators: accepting input from
the console, assignment statement, expressions, operators and
their precedence.
● Operators & types: Binary operators-Arithmetic, Relational
Operators, Logical Operators, Augmented Assignment Operators.
● Execution of a program, errors- syntax error, run-time error and
logical error.
● Conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif-else; simple programs:
e.g.: absolute value, sort 3 numbers and divisibility of a number.

Mid term:
● Notion of iterative computation and control flow:
for(range(),len()), while, using flowcharts, suggested programs:
calculation of simple and compound interests, finding the
factorial of a positive number etc.
● Strings: Traversal, operations – concatenation, repetition,
membership; functions/methods–len(), capitalize(), title(),
upper(), lower(), count(), find(), index(), isalnum(), islower(),
isupper(), isspace(), isalpha(), isdigit(), split(), partition(), strip(),
lstrip(), rstrip(), replace(); String slicing.
● Lists: Definition, Creation of a list, Traversal of a list. Operations
on a list - concatenation, repetition, membership;
functions/methods–len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(),
count(), index(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(), min(), max(),
sum(); Lists Slicing; Nested lists; finding the maximum, minimum,
mean of numeric values stored in a list; linear search on list of
numbers and counting the frequency of elements in a list.

UT2
● Lists: Definition, Creation of a list, Traversal of a list.
Operations on a list - concatenation, repetition,
membership; functions/methods–len(), list(), append(),
extend(), insert(), count(), index(), remove(), pop(),
reverse(), sort(), min(), max(), sum(); Lists Slicing; Nested
lists; finding the maximum, minimum, mean of numeric
values stored in a list; linear search on list of numbers and
counting the frequency of elements in a list.
 ● Tuples: Definition, Creation of a Tuple, Traversal of a
tuple. Operations on a tuple - concatenation, repetition,
membership; functions/methods – len(), tuple(), count(),
index(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); Nested tuple; Tuple
slicing; finding the minimum, maximum, mean of values
stored in a tuple; linear search on a tuple of numbers,
counting the frequency of elements in a tuple.

Final Term
Syllabus of Mid term , UT2 and
Dictionary: Definition, Creation, Accessing elements of a
dictionary, add an item, modify an item in a
dictionary; Traversal, functions/methods – len(),
dict(), keys(), values(), items(), get(), update(), del(),
del, clear(), fromkeys(), copy(), pop(), popitem(),
setdefault(), max(), min(), count(), sorted() copy();
Suggested programs : count the number of times a
character appears in a given string using a
dictionary, create a dictionary with names of
employees, their salary and access them.
● Introduction to Python modules: Importing math
module (pi, e, sqrt, ceil, floor, pow, fabs, sin, cos,
tan); random module (random, randint, randrange),
statistics module (mean, median, mode). Unit III:
Society, Law and Ethics
● Cyber safety: safely browsing the web, identity
protection, confidentiality, social networks, cyber
trolls and bullying.
 ● Appropriate usage of social networks: spread of
rumours, and common social networking sites
(Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook) and specific
usage rules.
● Safely accessing web sites: adware, malware, viruses,
trojans
● Safely communicating data: secure connections,
eavesdropping, phishing and identity verification. ●
Intellectual property rights, plagiarism, digital rights
management, and licensing (Creative Commons,
GPL and Apache), open source, open data, privacy.
● Privacy laws, fraud; cyber-crime- phishing, illegal
downloads, child pornography, scams; cyber
forensics, IT Act, 2000.
● Technology and society: ● understanding of societal
issues and cultural changes induced by technology.
● E-waste management: proper disposal of used
electronic gadgets.
● Identity theft, unique ids and biometrics.
● Gender and disability issues while teaching and using
computers