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
