BCA Syllabus – Computer Fundamentals & PC Software

1.3  Computer Fundamentals & PC Software

First Year          Part III Group A                   First Semester                             Subject Code :   

Unit – 1

Introduction – Introduction to computers – Evolution – Generation of Computers – Computers Hierarchy – Applications of Computers – Number System – Binary, Hexa, Octal, BCD System - Boolean Algebra – laws – logic gates – simplification of Boolean expression – k-map – sum of products – product of sums..

Unit – 2

Windows Basics – Introduction to word – Editing a document  - Move and Copy text  - Formatting text & Paragraph – Enhancing document – Columns, Tables and Other features.

Unit – 3

Introduction to worksheet and shell – getting started with Excel – Editing cell & using Commands and functions – Moving & Copying , Inserting & Deleting Rows & Columns -  Printing work sheet.

Unit – 4

Creating charts – Naming ranges and using statistical, math and financial functions, database in a worksheet – Additional formatting commands and drawing toolbar – other commands & functions – multiple worksheet and macros.

Unit – 5

Overview of Power point – presenting shows for corporate and commercial using Power point – Introduction to Desktop publishing – Computer viruses – Introduction to Internet – Web features.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Computer Fundamentals – Raja Raman – Prentice Hall of India 2004.

Chapters – 1,2

      2.   PC Software for Windows 98’ made simple – R.K.Taxali – Tata McGraw Hill

      Publishers, 2005.

REFERENCE BOOK:

Digital Circuits & Design – S.Salivahanan, S.Arivazhagan – Vikas Publishing             House Pvt Ltd, 2002.