Paper-I(MCA-101)IntroductiontoInformationTechnology.docVIP

Paper-I (MCA-101) : Introduction to Information Technology (Note : Only introductory concepts to be taught in the course.) UNIT- I Information Concepts and Processing: Definition, Need, Qualities, value of information. Categories of information in business organization, levels of information, data concepts, logical and physical concepts, data processing, Introduction to office automation. Number systems: Binary numbers, octal numbers, hexadecimal numbers, Radix- decimal, octal, hexadecimal, conversion from one form to another-Examples, Representation of decimal, octal, hexadecimal numbers: fractional numbers and signed numbers, 1s and 2s complement forms, Binary arithmetic-addition, subtraction ,multiplication and division-Examples. Codes-Various types- ASCII and 8 bit EBCDIC UNIT- II An overview of a computer system: components of a computer system, various I/O and auxiliary storage devices System software (Only Introductory level): Introduction to system software, Distinction between systems software and Application software. Introductory ideas of loaders and linkers High level language (Only Introductory level): Different languages, introduction to Assemblers, Compilers and Interpreters, relative merits of compilers v/s interpreters UNIT- III Operating systems (Only introductory level): Evolution, introduction to OS , functions and facilities, single tasking and multitasking OS , single user and multi-user OS, characteristics of MS-DOS and Unix operating systems , DOS and UNIX commands for file and process management. UNIT- IV Text editors: overview of editing process Graphical User Interfaces- Introduction to Windows, Word processing software packages and features, spread sheet packages and features Database : Introduction to database and database packages. Desktop Publishing: Introduction to desktop publishing and desk top publishing packages. UNIT- V Computer Communications (Only Introductory level) : Computer to computer communication through networkin