MCA 301 Java and Web Programming

Module I
Introduction to object oriented programming-Features of Java – Data types,
variables and arrays – Operators – Control statements – Classes and Methods –
Inheritance.

Module II
Packages and Interfaces –Exception Handling – Multithreaded Programming –
Input/Output – Files – Utility Classes – String Handling. Generics, Generic Class,
Generic methods.

Module III
Java applets- Life cycle of an applet – Adding images to an applet – Adding
sound to an applet. Passing parameters to an applet. Event Handling. Introducing AWT:
Working with Windows Graphics and Text. Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers and
Menus.

Module IV
JDBC Overview – JDBC implementation – Connection class – Statements -
Catching Database Results, handling database Queries.. Networking– InetAddress class
– URL class- TCP sockets - UDP sockets.

Module V
Web page Designing using HTML, Scripting basics-Client side and server side
scripting. Java Script-Object, names, literals, operators and expressions- statements and
features- events- windows- documents- frames- data types- built-in functions- Browser
object model- Verifying forms. Servlet – life cycle of a servlet. The Servlet API,
Handling HTTP Request and Response, using Cookies, Session Tracking. Introduction to
JSP.

References
• Java The Complete Reference , Herbert Schildt 7th Edition. Tata McGraw-
Hill Edition
• Java 6 by Rogers Cadenhead, Laura Lemay, Pearson education
• Java Programming – A Practical Approach – C Xavier, Tata McGraw-Hill Edition
• K. Arnold and J. Gosling, “The JAVA programming language”, Third edition,
Pearson Education, 2000
• Javascript A Beginners Guide, 3rd Edition – John Pollock - Tata McGraw-Hill
Edition
 MCA 302 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Module 1 The Software Process

Software and Software Engineering, Software Development Process Models – The

Waterfall Model, V-Model , Incremental Process Models, Prototyping, the Spiral Model,
Concurrent Models. Software Implementation and Management process- inspection,
Agile Development, Principles that Guide Practice

Module II Modeling and Design

Understanding Requirements, Requirements Modeling: Scenarios, Information, and

Analysis Classes, Requirements Modeling for WebApps, Design Concepts, Software
Architecture : Definition, Importance and Styles, User Interface Design

Module III Quality Management

Quality Concepts, Review Techniques, Software Quality Assurance, Software

Configuration Management, Product Metrics

Module IV Testing

Software Testing Strategies, Testing Conventional Applications, Testing Object-Oriented

Applications, Testing Web Applications

Module V Project Management

Project Management Concepts, Process and Project Metrics, Estimation for Software
Projects, Project Scheduling, Risk Management

References

• Pressman, R.S., Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, MGHISE, 7th

Edition, 2010
• Sommerville, I., Software Engineering, Pearson Education, 7th Ed., 2005.
• Software Engineering principles & Practice- Waman S Jawadekar 2nd Edition,
Tata Mc-Graw Hilll Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Schach, S., Software Engineering, TMH, 7th Ed., 2007
• Kelkar, S.A., Software Engineering: A Concise Study, PHI, 2007
• Humphrey, W.S., Managing the Software Process, Addison Wesley, 1999
• Hughes, B and Cotterel, M., Software Project Management, 3rd Edition, TMH,
2004.
• Brooks, F.P., The Mythical Man-Month, Pearson, 1995
 MCA 303 System Software

Module I
General concepts-Review of assembly and machine language programming, distinction
between system software and application software, Language processors:- Introduction ,
Language processing activities.
Assemblers:- Elements of Assembly language programming, A simple assembly scheme,
Pass structure of assemblers, Design of two pass assemblers

Module II
Macros and macro processors:- Macro definition and call, Macro expansion, Nested
macro calls, advanced macro facilities, design of macro pre processor
Linker-Relocation and linking concepts-self relocating programs.
Loader-Types of loaders
Editor-Types of editors-Components of editor-Debug monitor
Module III
Introduction to compiling:- Compilers, Analysis of a source program, the phases of a
compiler,
Lexical analysis:-The role of the lexical analyzer, Input buffering, specification of tokens
Recognition of tokens, Finite automata, Conversion of an NFA to DFA, From a regular
expression to an NFA

Module IV
Syntax analysis:- the role of the parser, Context free grammars, writing a grammer, Top
dowm parsing Bottom up parsing, syntax directed translation-syntax directed definition, ,
Construction of Syntax Tree, L R parsers-LR parsing algorithm, Constructing SLR
parsing tables, SLR parsing table

Module V
Intermediate code generation-postfix notation, syntax tree, three-address code, basic
blocks and flow graph,the DAG representation of basic blocks, Backpatching,
Code optimization:- The principal sources of optimization, optimization of basic blocks,
loops in flow graphs, Peephole optimization
Code Generations:- Issues in the design of a code generator, simple code generator

References

• System Programming and operating Systems- D.M.Dhamdhere Tata McGraw Hill

(Modules 1& 2)
• Compilers Pinciples, Techniques and Tools- Alfred V Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrry D
Ullman (Modules 3, 4 & 5 )
• Systems programming- John J Donovan
• System Software- Leland L Beck, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
 MCA 304 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
MODULE I

Introduction To Database Systems and E-R Model

Overview, A Historical Perspective, Files System versus DBMS, Advantages of
DBMS, Describing and storing data in a DBMS Transaction management, Structure of a
DBMS, People who work with Databases, Overview of Database Design. Entities,
Attributes and Entity Sets, Relationships and Relationship sets, Additional Features of E-
R Model: Key Constraints. Conceptual Design with the E-R Model Overview of Unified
Modeling Languages Recommended to use a couple of specific ER-Models (Chen Model,
Yourdon Model etc)

MODULE II

Relational Model and Query Languages

Introduction to the Relational Model. Integrity Constraints over Relations :
Primary Key, Foreign Key and General Constraints. E-R Model to Relational Model:
Entity Sets to Tables, Relationship Sets to Tables, Translating, Relationship Sets with
Key Constraints. Translating Relationship Sets with Participation Constraints, Translating
Weak Entity Sets, Translating Class Hierarchies. Translating E-R Diagrams with
Aggregation, Introduction to Query Languages, Relational Algebra: Selection and
Projection Operations. Set Operations, Renaming, Joins, Division

MODULE III

Structured Query Language

Overview of SQL, Basic Queries in SQL, Union, Intersect and Except, Nested
Queries, Aggregate Operators, Null Values, Number, String and Date Functions, Using
user defined functions inside queries, Complex Integrity Constraints in SQL, Triggers
and Views in SQL, Embedded SQL and Cursors

MODULE IV

Relational Database Design

Introduction to Schema Refinement, Functional Dependencies, Properties of
Decomposition, Normal Forms: First Normal Form, Second Normal Form, Third Normal
Form, Boyce Codd Normal Form, Fourth Normal Form,Fifth Normal Form

MODULE V

Transaction Management, Concurrency Control, Distributed System and Database

Administration
The ACID Properties,Transactions and Schedules, Concurrent Execution of
Transactions: Serialisability, Anomalies Due to Interleaved Execution .Schedules
Involving Aborted Transactions, Lock-Based Concurrency Control: 2 PL – Basic & Strict,
Dead Locks, Introduction to Crash Recovery, Concurrency Control:2 PL, Serialisability,
and Recover-ability,: Introduction to Locking Management: Dealing with
Deadlock .Introduction to ARIES, Introduction to Distributed Databases: Advantages &
Disadvantages, Transaction Types – Local & Global Transactions, Distributed DBMS
Architectures, Design of Distributed Databases: Replication, Fragmentation
How to add users, space management of tablespaces and objects

References

• Database Management Systems – Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke,

Third Edition, McGraw Hill, 2003
• Database Systems: Design , Implementaion and Management, Peter Rob,
Thomson Learning, 7Edn.
• Concept of Database Management, Pratt, Thomson Learning, 5Edn.
• Database System Concepts – Silberchatz, Korth and Sudarsan, Fifth Edition,
McGraw Hill, 2006
• The Complete Reference SQL – James R Groff and Paul N Weinberg, Second
Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2003
 MCA 305 Data Communications
Module I
Signals:-Simplified data communications model. Electric signals - continuous and
discrete signals, periodic signals, Fourier Series Representation of Periodic Signals,
Frequency, Spectrum and Bandwidth. Analog and Digital data transmission - data and
signals, analog and digital transmission, their comparison, Digital data rate and band
width. Transmission impairments - Attenuation, Delay distortion, Noise, Channel
Capacity.
Transmission Media :- Guided Transmission Media -Twisted pair wires, Coaxial,
Optical fiber. Wireless Transmission - Terrestrial microwave, satellite microwave, broad
cast Radio, Infrared.

Module II
Digital Transmission:-Digital Data, Digital Signal:-Line coding- characteristics of line
coding, Line coding schemes- Unipolar encoding:- NRZ, RZ, Manchester, Differential
Manchester. Bipolar encoding:- AMI., Block coding Analog Data, Digital Signal:-
Sampling, Sampling theorem, Nyquist rate, Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM), Pulse
Code Modulation (PCM).

Module III
Analog Transmission:-Modulation of Analog signals:- Analog to Analog modulation-
Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation, and Phase Modulation.
Modulation of Digital Data – Bit Rate and Baud Rate, ASK, FSK, PSK,QAM. Modems.
Multiplexing:- FDM, TDM, statistical TDM, WDM. Channnelization:- FDMA,
TDMA,CDMA.

Module IV
Transmission mode:- Parallel transmission, Serial transmission, Asynchronous
transmission, synchronous transmission. Line Configurations, full duplex and half duplex
transmission.
Circuit switching:- Telephone networks-local loops, trunks.
Packet switching :- Datagram, virtual circuit. Effect of packet size on transmission time.
Comparison of circuit switching and packet switching

Module V
High-Speed Digital Access:- DSL Technology-ADSL, xDSL, Spread Spectrum-
Concept, Frequency Hopping, Direct Sequence
Cellular Telephony:- Basic concepts, Frequency–Reuse Principle, Transmitting,
Receiving, Handoff, Roaming. First Generation, Second Generation-GSM, Third
Generation.
References

• William Stallings -Data and Computer communications - Prentice Hall of India

VIIth Edition.
• Behrouz A Forougan, Data Communications and Networking, 4th ed.McGraw
Hill
• Andrews S. Tanenbaum -Computer Networks, Prentice Hall of India, 4th Edition.
 MCA 306 Java Programming LAB

• Program to illustrate class, objects and constructors

• Program to implement overloading, overriding, polymorphism etc

• Program to implement the usage of packages

• Program to create our own exception

• Program for handling file operation

• Implement the concept of thread programming

• Program to implement Generic class and generic methods

• Applet program for passing parameters

• Applet program for running an audio file

• Program for event-driven paradigm in Java

• Event driven program for Graphical Drawing Application

• Program that uses Menu driven Application

• Program to implement JDBC in GUI and Console Application

• Web page design using HTML and client side validation using Javascript

• Programs to implement session Handling and Cookies in Servlets and JSP

• Socket programming to implement communications

• Develop a multi-threaded GUI application of your choice.

 MCA 307 DBMS LAB
Installation and configuration of Oracle Database
1 Table Design- Using foreign key and Normalization
2 Practice SQL Data Definition Language(DDL) commands
a) Table creation and alteration(include integrity constraints such as primary
key, referential integrity constraints, check, unique and null constraints
both column and table level
b) Other database objects such as view, index, cluster, sequence, synonym
etc.
3 Practice SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands
a) Row insertion, deletion and updating
b) Retrieval of data
i) Simple select query
ii) Select with where options (include all relational and logical
operators)
iii) Functions: Numeric, Data, Character, Conversion and Group
functions
with having clause.
iv) Set operators
v) Sorting data
vi) Sub query (returning single row, multiple rows, more than one
column,
correlated sub query)
vii) Joining tables( single join, self join, outer join)

x Data manipulations using date functions

xi User defined functions in a query
xii How to use hints in queries to optimize performance
xiii Manage ODBC/JDBC connections
4 Practice Transaction Control Language (TCL) commands ( Grant, revoke, commit
and save point options)
5 Usage of triggers, functions and procedures using PL/SQL constructs
6 Development of sample applications using Oracle as Back End Sample
applications may include
i) Payroll Information
ii) Student Information System
iii) Bank Transaction
iv) Library Information System etc.

How to take backup and restore using Oracle

How to conduct query optimization in a database