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Format For Instruction Plan [for Courses with Lectures and Labs ]

Course No. CAP104 Course Title: ELEMENTS OF IT L: 3 T: 0 P: 3 Cr: 5

Course Planner :- 12735 :: Sumit Mittu

TextBook

1. Peter Norton, Introduction to Computers, Tata McGraw Hill

Other Specific Books

2. Vikas Gupta, Comdex Linux and OpenOffice Course Kit, DreamTech Press, New Delhi
3. ITL Education Solutions, Introduction To Information Technology, Pearson Education
4. Alexis Leon, Mathews Leon, Fundamentals of Information Technology, Leon TechWorld
5. V Rajaraman, Fundamentals of Computers, Prentice Hall of India
6. Monica D’Souza, Jude D’Souza, Learn Computers Step-by-Step, Pearson Education
7. Vikas Gupta, Comdex Computer Course Kit, DreamTech Press, New Delhi

Other Readings

Sr. No. Jouranls atricles as compulsary readings (specific articles, Complete reference)

8 http://hoowstuffworks.blogspot.com/2010/04/evolution-of-computers.html (Illustrated showcase of Computer Evolution)

9 http://www.livinginternet.com/ (An elegantly organized tour of the Internet Applications)

10 http://www.imsc.res.in/Internet/rahul/services.html (Internet Services from the perspective of implementation)

11 http://freewindowsvistatutorials.com/meetWindowsVista/filesFoldersWindowsExplorer/index.php (Well defined tutorial on Manipulating Files/Folders and MS

Windows Explorer)
12 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742551.aspx (Microsoft TechNet Documentation on Control Panel from Microsoft)

Relevant Websites

Sr. No. Web adress (only if relevant to the courses) Salient Features

13 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5695308245798084102# Video tutorial discussing Windows’ customization using Control Panel

tools.
14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wo-tU9G58E Video Tutorial 1 of 2 on Manipulating Files & Folders in Windows 7

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 15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbMhOWuS53M Video Tutorial 2 of 2 on Manipulating Files & Folders in Windows 7

16 http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/ A home to free tutorials on using OpenOffice.org

17 http://www.learnopenoffice.org/tutorials.htm An index to HTML and Flash based (animated) tutorials on OpenOffice.org

Detailed Plan For Lectures

Pedagogical tool
Chapters/Sections of
Homework to be Demonstration/case
Week No. Lecture No. Topic Textbook/other
Assigned to students study/images/anmation
reference
ctc. planned

Part 1
Week 1 Lecture 1 Computer System Overview: Book :1,Ch-1 (Pg. 2-20) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Introduction to Computers; (01)
Evolution of Computers;
Application areas of Computers.
Lecture 2 Peripheral Components: Book :1,Ch-2 (Pg. 24-32) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Overview of generic I/O, Memory and Storage Devices. (02-03)

Lecture 3 Peripheral Components: Book :1,Ch-1 (Pg. 24-32 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Advanced I/O, Memory and Storage Technologies. 48-80); Ch-3 (Pg. (02-03)
86-103107-117); Ch-5 (Pg.
165-183)

Week 2 Lecture 4 Computer Software: Book :1,Ch-1 (Pg. 2-20); Ch-6 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Types of Computer Software; (Pg. 205-211) (04)
Role & Importance of OS and its types. Book :3,Ch-10 (Pg. 246-254)
Lecture 5 Number Systems: Book :3,Ch-2 (Pg. 42-49) HomeWork 1 Allocation CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Introduction to numbers systems; (05-07) and
Conversion between Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal number Numerical Problems
systems.
Lecture 6 Binary Arithmetic: Book :4,Ch-6 (Pg. 96-110) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Simple Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Binary (05-07) and
values. Numerical Problems

Week 3 Lecture 7 Data Representation Codes: Book :3,Ch-2 (Pg. 49-51) Term Paper 1 Allocation CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Overview of ASCII, EBCDIC & UNICODE character sets; Book :4,Ch-2 (Pg. 27) (05-07)
Introduction to Concept of Parity.
Lecture 8 MS Windows: Book :3,Ch-6 (Pg. 144-160) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Introduction & Evolution of Windows; (08-10) and
Configuring Desktop and Start Menu; Live Demonstration
Using Windows Explorer to manipulate Files/Folders.

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Week 3 Lecture 9 MS Windows: Book :3,Ch-6 (Pg. 161-164) HomeWork 1 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Searching Files and Folders; Submission (08-10) and
Control Panel Applets; Live Demonstration
Configuring Keyboard, Mouse, Display and Folder Options.

Week 4 Lecture 10 MS Windows: Book :7,Ch-1 (Pg. 38) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Add/remove hardware; (08-10) and
Add/remove programs; Live Demonstration
System Properties;
Administrative Tools Overview.
Part 2
Week 4 Lecture 11 Word Processing Package: Book :2,(Pg. 179-201) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Introduction to Office Automation Suites and their components; (11-18) and
Introduction & Features of Word Processing Package; Live Demonstration
Creating, Saving, Opening and Editing a Document.
Lecture 12 Word processing Package: ->Reference :2,(Pg. 206-216 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Selecting & Formatting text in a Document; 241-248 250-252) (11-18) and
Using Bullets and Numbering. Live Demonstration

Week 5 Lecture 13 Word processing Package: ->Reference :2,(Pg. 250-252 HomeWork 2 Allocation CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Find & Replace Text Occurrences in a Document; 258-261 216-223) (11-18) and
Spelling & Grammar-check, Thesaurus and Auto-correct Options Live Demonstration

Lecture 14 Interim Review of Term Paper NA

Lecture 15 Word Processing Package: Book :2,2: (Pg. 261-268) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Inserting Images and other Objects into the document. Book :2,(Pg. 261-268) (11-18) and
Live Demonstration

Week 6 Lecture 16 Word Processing Package: Book :2,(Pg. 273-275) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Creating bookmarks and hyperlinks. (11-18) and
Live Demonstration
Lecture 17 Word Processing Package: Book :2,(Pg. 223-241) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Working with Tables; (11-18) and
Live Demonstration
Lecture 18 Word Processing Package: Book :2,(Pg. 223-241) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Page Setup & Printing a document. (11-18) and
Live Demonstration

Week 7 Lecture 19 Word Processing Package: Book :7,Ch-6 (Pg. 319-339) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Implementing Mail Merge (19) and
Live Demonstration

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Part 2
Week 7 Lecture 20 Spread-sheet Package: Book :2,(Pg. 280-288) HomeWork 2 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Introduction & Features of spread-sheets; Submission (20-28) and
Creating, Editing and Saving workbooks. Live Demonstration

Lecture 21 Spread-sheet Package: Book :2,(Pg. 290-300 306-308 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Operations on Worksheets (Inserting, Deleting, Moving/Copying, 315-317 322-327 331-348) (20-28) and
Renaming); Live Demonstration
Manipulating Rows and Columns.

MID-TERM
Part 3
Week 8 Lecture 22 Spread-sheet Package: Book :2,(Pg. 329-330 302-302 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Fill Series; 309-312 319-330) (20-28) and
Cell Naming & Referencing (Absolute and Relative References). Live Demonstration

Lecture 23 Spread-sheet Package: Book :3,Ch-12 (Pg. 322-323) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Basic built-in Mathematical Functions; (20-28) and
Basic built-in Logical Functions. Live Demonstration

Lecture 24 Spread-sheet Package: Book :3,Ch-12 (Pg. 323-324) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Basic built-in Date/Time Functions; (20-28) and
Basic built-in Statistical Functions; Live Demonstration
Basic built-in String/Text Functions.

Week 9 Lecture 25 Spread-sheet Package: Book :3,Ch-12 (Pg. 333-336) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Page-setup & Printing Worksheets; (20-28) and
Cell Formatting Live Demonstration

Lecture 26 Spread-sheet Package: Book :3,Ch-12 (Pg. 333-336) HomeWork 3 Allocation CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Conditional Formatting; (20-28) and
Data Validation; Live Demonstration

Lecture 27 Spread-sheet Package: Book :2,(Pg. 359-360) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Data Sorting; (20-28) and
Data Filtering; Live Demonstration
Using Macros (without programming aspect).

Week 10 Lecture 28 Spread-sheet Package: Book :2,(Pg. 349-354 356-359) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Adding Graphs & Charts; (20-28) and
Protecting Spread-sheets. Live Demonstration

Lecture 29 Presentation Package: Book :2,(Pg. 366-369 379-381 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Introduction & Features of Presentation Package; 384-389) (29-34) and
Creating, Saving and Opening a Presentation. Live Demonstration
Part 4

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Part 4
Week 10 Lecture 30 Presentation Package: Book :2,(Pg. 370-373 376-378) HomeWork 3 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Inserting, Deleting & ordering slides in a presentation; Submission (29-34) and
Using Auto-content (Auto-Pilot) Wizard. Live Demonstration

Week 11 Lecture 31 Presentation Package: Book :2,(Pg.373-376) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Different Views of a presentation; (29-34) and
Using Slide-Master. Live Demonstration

Lecture 32 Presentation Package: Book :2,(Pg. 399-411) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Inserting Graphs, Tables, Images, Auto-shapes and Audio/Video clips (29-34) and
into slides. Live Demonstration

Lecture 33 Presentation Package: Book :2,(Pg. 414-420) Term Paper 1 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Custom Animation & Slide Transition Effects. Submission (29-34) and
Live Demonstration

Week 12 Lecture 34 Presentation Package: Book :2,(Pg. 421 426) HomeWork 4 Allocation CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Rehearse Timings & Record Narration; (29-34) and
Printing Slides & Hand-outs. Live Demonstration

Lecture 35 Program Development Tools: Book :1,Ch-12 (Pg. 439-451) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Problem Solving Concepts & Tools; (35-36) and
Using Algorithms/Pseudo-codes and Flowcharts. Live Demonstration

Lecture 36 Program Development Tools: Book :1,Ch-12 (Pg. 439-451) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

Using Decision Tables and Decision Trees for Structured Analysis (35-36) and
Live Demonstration

Week 13 Lecture 37 Internet & Its Applications: Book :1,Ch-8 (Pg. 285-299) CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Introduction to Internet and its services; (37-39)
Basic Internet Terms: Webpage, Home-page, Website,
Hypertext/Hypermedia, Web Server, Protocol, URL, and ISP;
Web Browser Architecture.
Lecture 38 Internet & Its Applications: Book :1,Ch-8 (Pg. 312-317 HomeWork 4 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
WWW, Email, IRC, Internet Telephony and Videoconferencing. 320-321) Submission (37-39)
Book :2,(Pg. 446-468)
Lecture 39 Internet & Its Applications: Book :1,Ch-8 (Pg. 299-307 CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
Search Engines, Newsgroups, Telnet, FTP, Remote Desktop 317-320 321-323) (37-39) and
Connection. Book :2,(Pg. 441-446) Live Demonstration

Spill Over
Week 14 Lecture 40 Biometrics CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
(40)

Lecture 41 Bluetooth Technology CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

(41)

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 Spill Over
Week 14 Lecture 42 Windows Speech Recognition CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.
(42) and
Live Demonstration

Week 15 Lecture 43 Ergonomics for Computer Users CAP\Regular\CAP104\Sr.

(43)

Details of homework and case studies plan

Nature of homework
Homework No. Topic of the Homework (group/individuals/field work

Homework 1 Fundamental Concepts of IT & Data Representation Individual

Homework 2 MS Windows and Word Processing Package Individual

Homework 3 Spread-sheet Package Individual

Homework 4 Presentation Package & Problem Solving Tools Individual

*Normally all the homeworks shall be submitted online but in special courses where homeworks cannot be submited online , the insructor can edit the mode of submission while
entering the IP Details

Scheme for CA:out of 100*

Component Frequency Out of (If any) Marks for each Total Marks

Homework 3 4 15 45

Term Paper 1 25 25

Lab Assesment 1 30 30

Total :- 100

* In ENG courses wherever the total exceeds 100, consider x best out of y components of CA, as explained in teacher's guide available on the UMS

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 List of suggested topics for term paper[at least 15] (Student to spend about 15 hrs on any one specified term paper)
Sr. No. Topic
1 Computers can think now! But… Artificially
2 Comparative Analysis & Specifications of Image File Formats
3 Comparative Analysis of USB, Firewire, PS/2 Port Interfaces
4 Plastic Memory Technologies
5 Buying a new computer system
6 Case Study: Chrome OS (from Google)
7 MS Windows Tweaks for Performance Boost
8 Analysis of various Remote Desktop Connection Tools available in market
9 Case Study: PARAM supercomputer series
10 Case Study: Yahoo! as a website for one and all
11 Comparative Study of Google, Yahoo, and Bing Search Engines
12 Analysing various Desktop Search Utilities
13 Computers in Daily Life
14 Computers at Home v/s Computers in Office
15 Ensuring a secure computer
16 Exploring the Power of 5th Generation of Computing
17 Computer Viruses: Evolution & Safeguards against them
18 Computers for Education & Training
19 Hard Disk performance enhancements
20 Case Study: Intel Microprocessors
21 Exploring IT Job options
22 Internet as a cost-effective means of communication
23 Misuse of Computers and IT
24 Recent Developments in the field of IT
25 Portable Systems: PDAs, Notebooks and Netbooks
26 Software Copyright & Use
27 Science of Ergonomics & Computers
28 The Science of Biometrics
29 Search Engines and Enhancing Search to get precise results
30 Unleashing the power of Internet
31 Comparative Analysis of MS Office and OpenOffice.org suites
32 IT and your Institution Campus

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*Each experiment of the lab will be evaluated using following relative scheme:

Component % of Marks

J/E 50

WR 20

VIVA 30

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 List of experiments :-

Expt. No Title Equipment Used Reference of Lab manual

Before Mid-Term

1 Introducing various peripheral PC

components and their interfacing
with computer.
2 Exploring the Operating Systems PC with MS Windows and DOS
and other basic software in
computer;
Introduction to GUI (MS
Windows) and CUI (DOS)
operating Systems.
3 General DOS Commands: date, PC with DOS
time, vol, ver, dir.
4 General DOS Commands: cd, md, PC with DOS
rd, ren, copy, move, del.
5 Browsing & Manipulating Files & PC with MS Windows and Windows
Folders using Windows Explorer; Calculator
Searching for Files & Folders;
Using Windows Calculator for
Number System Conversions.
6 MS Windows Control Panel: PC with MS Windows
Configuring Start Menu/Taskbar,
Display, Mouse, Keyboard
options and System properties
7 MS Windows Control Panel: PC with MS Windows
Configuring Folder Options,
Administrative Tools,
Add/Remove Hardware,
Add/Remove Programs.
8 Introduction to Word Processing PC with an Office suite
Package and its environment.
9 Creating, Saving and Opening PC with an Office suite
Documents;
Selecting and Formatting Text in a
Document.

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 10 Find and Replace text PC with an Office suite
occurrences;
Using Spell-Check, Grammar,
Thesaurus & Auto-correct
options.
11 Bullets & Numbering. PC with an Office suite

12 Inserting Images & other objects PC with an Office suite

in a document.
13 Working with tables in a PC with an Office suite
document.
14 Page Setup and Printing a PC with an Office suite
document
15 Implementing Mail Merge. PC with an Office suite

16 Introduction to Spread-sheet PC with an Office suite

Package and its environment.
17 Creating, Saving, Opening and PC with an Office suite
Editing Workbooks;
Worksheet Operations: Inserting,
Deleting, Moving/Copying,
Renaming;
18 Manipulating Rows and PC with an Office suite
Columns;
Using Fill Series.
After Mid-Term

19 Cell Naming & Referencing PC with an Office suite

(Absolute & Relative
Addressing);
Basic built-in Mathematical
Functions.
20 Basic built-in Logical and PC with an Office suite
Date/Time Functions.
21 Basic built-in String and PC with an Office suite
Statistical Functions.
22 Page Setup and Printing PC with an Office suite
Worksheets.

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 23 Formatting Cells & Conditional PC with an Office suite
Formatting;
Data Validation.
24 Data Sorting & Filtering. PC with an Office suite

25 Using Macros (without details on PC with an Office suite

coding aspects);
Protecting Worksheets and cells.
26 Introduction to Presentation PC with an Office suite
Package and its environment.
27 Creating, Saving, Opening and PC with an Office suite
editing a presentation;
Inserting, Removing and ordering
slides in a presentation.
28 Using Auto-content Wizard; PC with an Office suite
Different views of Presentation;
Using Slide Master.
29 Inserting Graphs/Charts, Images, PC with an Office suite
Auto-Shapes and audio/video
clips in slides.
30 Custom Animation & Slide PC with an Office suite
Transitions.
31 Rehearse Timings & Record PC with an Office suite
Narration;
Printing Slides & hand-outs.
32 Designing & Executing PC with an Office suite
Flowcharts using RAPTOR
33 Internet Applications: Using PC with an Office suite
browsers to surf the internet and
WWW;
Using e-Mail, Search Engines,
Chat;
Setup and use Remote Desktop
Connection.

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