University of Lucknow Courses

B.C.A.

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Duration: 3 Years

Eligibility: 10+2 or Equivalent

Course Duration: Three Year (Semester System)

Course Eligibility : 10+2 in any stream with atleast 50% marks or equivalent CGPA.

Admission Criteria: Merit in qualifying examination, subject to eligibility criteria.

Entrance/Eligibility Test: As per University Rules

Programme Mode: Regular

Course Syllabus

Semester - I

Course Code	Course Title
BCA101	Computer Fundamentals
BCA102	Foundation Course In English
BCA103	Software Application Skills (Windows + Office)
BCA104	Fondation Course In Humanities And Social Sciences
BCA105	Operating System Concepts With DOS

 

Semester – II

BCA201	Programming In C
BCA202	Foundation Course In Mathematics For Computing
BCA203	Introduction to DBMS—SQL
BCA204	Foundation Course in Science and Technology
BCA205	Digital Electronics
Practicals

 

Semester – III

BCA301	Programming & Problem Solving Through Visual Basic
BCA302	Data Structure Using C
BCA303	Elements of System Analysis and Design
BCA304	Computer Organization and Architecture
BCA305	Introduction To CAD

 

Semester – IV

BCA401	C++ and Object Oriented Programming
BCA402	Computer Networking
BCA403	Management Information Systems
BCA404	Computer Oriented Numerical Methods
BCA405	Multimedia Concepts & Application

 

Semester – V

BCA501	Introduction To Software Engineering
BCA502	TCP/IP Programming
BCA503	Web Designing Concepts- Html, MS Frontpage
BCA504	RDBMS Concept Oracle
BCA505	Computer Graphics and Animation

 

Semester – VI

BCA601	Introduction To Artifical Intelligence
BCA602	Introduction To Internet Programming (Java, Active-X)
BCA603	Project Work

 

Course Detail

Semester-I

BCA101     Computer Fundamentals

Unit I

Introduction to Computer, What is a Computer; Application of Computers; Historical evolution of Computers; Generation of Computers; Classification of computers; characteristics of Computers; Limitations of Computers; Data; Process, Information; Hard ware; software; Firmware; Elements & Block diagram of computer.

Unit II

Computer Organization, Input, Process, Output, Input output organization, Bit, Nibble Byte, Word, Memory size, Input Devices like Keyboard Mouse and their working, Output Devices like Printer, Plotter etc. working of DMP, Inkjet & Laser printer

Unit III

Memory concepts, Basic Memory element; Primary Memory; concept of RAM; ROM; PROM; EPROM; EAPROM; static RAM; Dynamic RAM; SDRAM/RDRAM; Secondary storage Devices; Magnetic Tape, Magnetic Disk, Floppy Disk, Video/optical disk (CD ROM)

Unit IV

Types of software, System & Application software, Operating system Definition; storage and Retrieval software, Translators, Interpreters, compilers; Generation of Languages; high Level languages, Low Level Language; Disk Organization, Disk storage capacity, Diskette compatibility, Physical file system; system area; Data area; Physical storage and Retrieval mechanism; Disk Partitioning. Computer virus

 

BCA102   Foundation Course In English

Unit I

Reading comprehension, Questions based on comprehension, True and False statements, Contextual reference, Statements, Grammar and Usage, Vocabulary: Word meaning, Word having multiple meanings, Suffixes and Prefixes, one word substitution, Word formation, Word stress, Synonyms, antonyms

Unit II

Grammar- Tenses, Articles, The Passive voice and Active voice, Non finite verbal, Gerunds, Participles, Conversation, Pronunciation, Letters and Sounds, English vowels, English consonant, prepositional phrases, Participial phrases, Phrasal verbs, Relative clauses, Conjunction, Adjectival clauses, Development of paragraphs, Writing a composition, Note taking, Techniques of summarizing

Unit III

Principles of letter writing, Courtesy and consideration, Directness and conciseness, Structures And Layout Of Letters, Elements of structure, Forms of layout, Styles of presentation, Planning A Letter, Importance of planning, steps to planning, Writing letters, Job Application Letter, Importance and function, Drafting, the application, Preparing the resume, Sales Letter, Qualities of a sales letter, Writing a sales letter, Claims And Adjustment Letter, Making claims, Offering adjustments, Social Correspondence, Formal letters, Informal letters.

Unit IV

Characteristics of Reports, Importance of Reports, Types of Reports, Report writing, Structure Of Reports, Front matter, Main body, Preparatory Steps To Writing Report, Collecting data, Organizing materials, Writing the report, Rough draft, Procedure of writing checklist for Reports Reading skills, What is a précis, steps to précis writing, How to abridge sentence, Passage for précis.

 

BCA103  Software Application Skills (Windows + Office)

Unit I

Windows Basics, Introduction to graphical user Interface; Overview of Different versions of Windows, The Desktop, the taskbar, the start button, the title bar, control panel, wizards, find feature properties, Quick view, Right clicking, Font Management, Entertainment, Fax, Games, System tools, Calculator, calendar, card file, character Map, Imaging, Notepad, Pain WordPad.

Unit II

Windows Features, My computer Icon, Info-center, Explorer, Mobile computing, Plug & play, folders, shortcuts, Long file names Accessibility, High Performance Multimedia, Improved web features, Internet Connection Wizard, Active Desktop channels, Email, Net meeting, front page express, Web browsers, communications.

Unit III

Word Basic, Introduction to Word Processing, Beating, Saving, Printing, Exiting a word document, Opening, typing in a documents selecting text, Editing text, Inserting, Replacing Proofing document spell check grammar check Auto correct auto text auto complete, paragraph alignment, spacing Borders, Shading, Bullets & Numbering Header & Footer.

Unit IV

Wizards and templates creating, Attaching; copying Deleting a template Inserting Pictures, graphics Drawing in Word, Mail Merge creating envelops and Mailing List, Working with tables & charts creating a HTML Document.

 

BCA104   Fondation Course In Humanities And Social Sciences

Unit I

Social Development of Man, Evolution of Human Kind, Social change and Evolution, Stages of Social Evolution, Domestication of animals and Origins of Agriculture, Indus Valley Civilization, Feudal Societies, Renaissance and  Reformation Agriculture, Industrial Revolution,

Unit II

Indian National Movement-I, Indian National Movement-II, Values of the Indian National Movement, Emergence of Independent India, National Integration

Unit III

Characteristic of Indian Economy, Problems of Economic Development, Development: Goals and Issues, Need for Planned Economic Development, Planning Strategies-I, Planning Strategies-II, Population and Development, Problems of National Unity: Colonial Heritage Problems of National Unity: Case and Tribe, Problems of National Unity: Regional Imbalances, Multi Religious Society: The Secular Principle, Political System, The sprit of Indian constitution, Center-state relations: the federal principle, Devaluation of power

Unit IV

Democracy and the underprivileged in India, social transformation, Social and cultural transformation, People's participation in the development process, Place of women in Indian society, Education and social change, India and the world, the struggle for freedom against colonialism, the struggle of freedom against contemporary forms of domination, Problems of peace in nuclear world

 

BCA105   Operating System Concepts With DOS

Unit I

Operating System, Introduction to OS; Functions of OS-Process Management Device Management, Memory Management, Information Management; Types of an Operating System Introduction to MS DOS; Booting, Components of MS DOS, MS DOS Internal & External commands, Different versions of MS DOS

Unit II

DOS Commands, Directory commands : Working with Directory, Dir, md, cd, rd, Tree, Path. File Management in DOS – Introduction to files, File Management commands : Copy, Del, Rename, Xcopy, Attrib, Backup, Restore General Commands – Type date Time Prompt. Disk Management Commands – Format, Sys, Chkdsk, Diskcopy, Label, Vol.

Unit III

Dos Utility Commands – Move, Deltree, Scandisk, Setver, Undelete, Unformat. Introduction to batch files; running and stopping batch files, Batch file commands Echo, Pause, and REM, Configuring the system: Config.sys, Autoexec.bat files. System Configuration commands: Files, buffer, country

Unit IV

Problem Solving Methods, Problem Analysis, Flow charts, symbols, Decision tables, Pseudo codes and Algorithm with examples, Different files like com, exe, sys, bin, txt, & their uses.

 

Semester-II

BCA201  Programming In C

Unit I

Fundamentals of C programming, Programming Techniques and concepts, Overview of C, History and structure, C Character set, Identifiers and Keywords, Data-types, Data Types declarations, Constants and variables, expressions and statements and symbolic constants, Basic I/O, Preprocessor command: #include, define, preparing and running a complete C program.

Unit II

Operator and expressions: Arithmetic, unary, logical, bit-wise, assignment, and conditional operators, library functions, Construction of loops and implementation, control statements: While, Do-while, for statements nested loops. If-else, switch, break, continue and go-to statements, comma operator.

Unit III

Functions, function prototypes, Recursion, storage classes, automatic, external and static variables, Pointer: Declarations, Passing to a function, Operations on Pointers

Unit IV

Arrays two dimensional and multidimensional arrays, Arrays of Pointers, Unions: Declarations, File handling: Open, Close, Create, Process, unformatted data file.

 

BCA202  Foundation Course In Mathematics For Computing

Unit I

Matrix: Operations on Matrices like Addition, subtraction, Multiplication, Adjoint and inverse of Matrix, Application in Solution Of Linear equations, Determinants

Unit II

Calculus: Differentiations of important real valued functions of real valued functions of real variable, product rule, and quotient rule, Differentiations of inverse trigonometric function, Implicit Function, Second order derivatives.

Unit III

Integration, nth derivative, Integration by substitution, Integration through partial fraction, Integration by parts, Definite Integration as limit of sum and its Properties

Unit IV

Differential Equations, Solutions with separation variable, homogenous equation and first order linear differential equation with constant coefficient

 

BCA203  Introduction to DBMS—SQL

Unit I

Data, Information and Knowledge, Introducing Databases and Different kinds of database users, Concept Of A Database, Interacting With A Database, Architecture Of A Database, Using Relational Databases, Basics Of Relational Databases, Using Relational Databases, Identifiers For Relations, characteristics of database, database system concepts and Data Independence, Content of Data Dictionary, Data administration function, DBMS, Concurrency control, Database security, Database recovery

Unit II

Traditional Data Model – ANSI/SPRC 3-level Architecture, Overview of three Traditional models—Hierarchical, Network and Relational Models, Comparison of these models UNIT III File organization technique—Random file organization technique, Multi key file organization technique, Entity relationship Model, ER Model

Unit IV

Structured Query Language- Introduction, Data definition, views and queries in SQL, Specifying constraints and indexes in SQL, Data Manipulation, Data maintenance, Multiple Table Operations, Transaction integrity facilities,

 

BCA204  Foundation Course in Science and Technology

Unit I

Science and Man, Science as a Human Endeavor, Science in Ancient World, Iron age, Science in Ancient India, Science in Medieval Times, Science in Modern India, The method of Science and Nature of Scientific Knowledge.

Unit II

Universe, Universe as a system, Solar System, Origin of Species, Evolution of Man, Earth,  Environment, Components of Environment, Changing Environment, Factor effecting environment, and Natural resources available on earth, Resource Utilization.

Unit III

Scientific Possibilities and Social Realties in the field of, Food and Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Health and disease, Role of Science in Solving these Problems

Unit IV

Developments in Science and Technology, Effects of current developments of Science and Technology on Humans, Science and Technology in Industry, Perceptions and Aspirations, Science and Society

 

BCA205  Digital Electronics

Unit I

Digital Electronics, Number systems, Logic gates: Inverter, AND, OR, NOR, XOR, XNOR, NAND, De Morgan’s Theorems, Karnaugh Map, Boolean Algebra, Combinational and sequential Circuits.

Unit II

Half Adder, full Adder, Binary Adder, Signed Binary numbers, 1’s and 2’s complement, 2’s complement Adder Subtractor Parity generator, Comparators, Encoder, Decoder, Multiplexer, Demultiplexer

Unit III

Flip Flops, RS latches, D-Flip Flop, T-Flip Flop, JK-Flip Flop, JK Master Slave Flip Flop, Edge triggered and Pulse triggered Flip Flops, Registers, shift registers.

Unit IV

Binary Counters, Modulus of a Counter, design of different MOD counter, Random Access Memory, Read Only Memory, Multivibrators- Astable, Monostable, Bistable, Schmitt Trigger, Timer

Practicals:

• To verify Different Logic Gates.
• To verify different Flip-Flops.
• To study Different types of Multivirators.
• To study Timer – 555

 

Semester – III

BCA301  Programming & Problem Solving Through Visual Basic

Unit I

Basics of Visual Basic Language, Requirements for VB 6.0, Tool bars, Menu bars- file, edit, view, project, format, tools, Add- Ins menu, Project explorer, Properties Window, code, form, debug Windows, Immediate debug window, local debug window, watch debug window, tool box window, Adding removing custom control to toolbox, creating and saving a project, Visual Development and event driven Programming, OOPS, Object and classes, Properties, Methods and events

Unit II

Operators, control flow statements, decision making statements, select case statement, iterations: for loop structure, do-loops: do---Until Loops, do ----while, while---wend, With–End With statements, arrays : accessing array elements, double dimensional or multidimensional arrays, dynamic arrays, redimensioning an array Lbound and Ubound statements, option base statements, collections. Procedures and sub procedures.

Interacting with the basic controls: Forms, forms collection, controlling one form within another- MDI forms, command buttons, label controls, text box controls, capturing the key strokes, list box controls, combo box controls, lab assignments More controls: Radio buttons, scrollbars, example program, timer control, running lights application, image control, drive list box, searching a drive, the directory list box, file list box copying a file, deleting a file , renaming a file, moving a file, lab assignments.

Unit II

Creating menu based applications: Menus and the menu editor, designing menus, programming menu commands, manipulating menus at runtime, creating a menu’s control array, dialog boxes: message box; visual basic constants for the message box; using the input box. Procedures and functions: Introduction to procedures, types procedures: sub procedure general procedures event procedures function procedures, creating new procedures, selecting existing procedures, calling sub procedures, calling function procedures, calling procedures in other modules, passing arguments to procedures, passing arguments by value; passing arguments by reference, using optional arguments, using an indefinite number of arguments.

Unit IV

Using new ActiveX controls: Rich text box control, key state control, status bar control, common dialog control, File dialog box, color dialog box, font dialog box, print dialog box, List view control, tree view control, example program, outline control, flat scrollbars, month view, tabbed dialog control, Date Time Picker control.

 

BCA302  Data Structure Using C

Unit I

Structure, definition, and application, Lists, Basic Terminology, Static Implementation of Lists, Pointer Implementation of Lists, Insertion in a List, Deletion from a List, Storage ofSparse, Arrays using Linked List, Doubly Linked Lists, Circular Linked List

Unit II

Defining Stack and Queue, Stack Operations and Implementation, Array Implementation, Pointer Implementation, Stack Applications, Convert Number Bases by Using Stacks, Infix to Postfix Conversion, Queues: Operations and Implementation, Queue Application, Priority Queues

Unit III

Defining Graph, Basic Terminology, Graph Representation, Graph Traversal, Depth First Search (DFS), Breadth First Search (BFS), Shortest Path Problem, Minimal Spanning Tree, inary Trees, In order Traversal, Post order Traversal, Preorder Traversal, Binary Search Trees, Operations on a BST, Insertion in Binary Search Tree, Deletion of a node in BST, Search for a key in BST, Height Balanced Tree.

Unit IV

Searching and Sorting techniques, Sequential Search, Binary Search, Internal Sort, Insertion Sort, Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, 2-way Merge Sort, Heap Sort

 

BCA303  Elements of System Analysis and Design

Unit I

System concept, Definition, System study, system analysis, System approach, Characteristics and Types of system, Elements of system analysis, System models and types of models, system environment and boundaries, system analyst, role of system analyst, qualification and responsibilities, System analyst as an agent of change.

Unit II

System Development Life Cycle and its various phases, Preliminary investigation, Determination of system requirements, Development of software, System testing, Implementation, evaluation and maintenance, system documentation and consideration

Unit III

System Planning, Feasibility study and its report and importance, various tools and technique, Software Crisis: From programmer’s point of view, from users point of view.

Unit IV

System design and modeling, state of system design, process modeling, logical and physical design, system flow chart and structured charts, data flow diagrams, file organization and data base design, system testing and quantity assurance implementation and software maintenance.

 

BCA304  Computer Organization and Architecture

Unit I

Principles of computer design: Software and Hardware, Interaction layers of computer architecture, CPU organization, Architecture of a Microprocessor (ex. 8086)

Unit II

Assembly language programming, Bus architecture, Basic structure of the CPU, An Advanced Structure, Register Organization, Programmer Visible Registers, Status and Control Registers, Micro-Operations, Register transfer Micro-operations, Arithmetic Micro-operation, Logic Microoperations, Shift Micro- operations, Implementation of a Simple Arithmetic, Logic and Shift Unit, Instruction Execution and Micro-operations, ALU Organization

Unit III

A simple ALU Organization, Floating point ALU, Arithmetic Processors, Control Unit Organization, Functional Requirements of a Control Unit, Structure of Control Unit, An Illustration of Control, Hardwired Control Unit, Instruction Format Design, Instruction Length, Allocation of Bits, Variable Length of Instructions, Example of Instruction Set, memory system, storage technology, memory array organization, cache virtual memory

Unit IV

Addressing Schemes, Immediate Addressing, Direct Addressing, Indirect addressing, Register Addressing, Register Indirect Addressing, Displacement Addressing, Stack Addressing Scheme, data transfer techniques

 

BCA305   Introduction To CAD

Unit I

Introduction to Computer Aided Design, AutoCAD, Settings In AutoCAD: User Defined Settings, Default settings; Limit, Scale, Tile Mode, Blip Mode, Background Color, Grid settings, Measurement Units Decimal, Engineering Scale, File menu preferences, Ortho, Object Snap, Snap, 2D Drawing tool, Line, Arc, Circle, P line, Ellipse, Polygon, Point, Dynamic Text

Unit II

General Tools: Redraw, Regenerate, Undo Zoom, Break, Cancel, Hatch, Solid, Offset, Erase, Rotate, Change property; 3D Drawing Tools: Predefined 3D Objects, 3D Box, Pyramid, Wedge, Dome, Sphere, Cone, Mesh and Dish; Converting 2D Drawing into 3D; Ruled Surface; surface of revolution; Tabulated surface; UCS control; Changing Dimension for an object, Drawing Object in Different dimension

Unit III

3D face; changing properties of objects (elevation, Thickness) In perception of 3D; Grip, Rotate, Move, Scale; 3D polyline; Viewpoints; Dview- Setting camera and Target; Difference between Dview and viewport, Difference between paper space and Model space.

Unit IV

Render; Lights- point, distant, Subtraction of one 2D Object from another- sol sub; Layer controlcreation of new layer; Management of existing layer; transferring objects from one to another layer; Layer commands- thaw, freeze, lock, unlock etc.; Analysis features of AutoCAD; Inquiry: List Objects, status, area, mass property, area calculation; Designing of Housing Complex – Outline Plan ( walls roofs and floors); - Inside Plan (Apartment Boundaries, Doors, Windows, Elevator, Gallery, Stairs); - Interior Design (Apartment plan)

 

Semester – IV

BCA401  C++ and Object Oriented Programming

Unit I

OOP concept, Procedural vs OOP programming, OOP terminology and features, Tokens, Character set, Keywords, Data-types, Data Types declarations, Constants and variables, expressions, Standard Library and header files. Operator and Expressions: Arithmetic Operator, Increment/Decrement Operator, Relational Operator, Logical Operator and conditional operators, library functions, Logical Expressions, C++ shorthand,

Unit II

Flow of control statements: Selection statements, Iteration statement, Jump statement, Construction of loops and implementation, While, Do-while, For statements nested loops. If-else, switch, break, continue and Goto statements. Classes and Objects: Need for Classes, Declaration of Classes, referencing class Members, Scope of class and its members Nested Classes, Functions in a class: Inline Functions, Constant Member functions, Nesting of Member Functions, friend function, Memory allocation of objects, Arrays of objects, Static Class Member

Unit III

Functions, function definition, Default arguments, Constant arguments, Call by value, Call by reference, Calling functions with arrays, returning from a function, storage class specifier and variables, storage class specifier and Functions automatic, external and static variables, Pointer: Declarations, Passing to a function, Operations on Pointers

Unit IV

Arrays two dimensional and multidimensional arrays, Arrays of Pointers, Pointers and functions, Constructors and Destructor: Declaration, Definition and characteristics, Function Overloading, Inheritance: Need, Different forms, Single Inheritance, Multilevel Inheritance, C++ Memory Map: Dynamic and Static Allocation of Memory, Stacks Queues and Linked Lists, Declarations, File handling: Open, Close, Create, Process, Detecting EOF.

 

BCA402    Computer Networking

Unit I

Computer networks, Network Hardware—Local Area networks, Metropolitan Area networks,, Wide Area networks, Wireless networks, Internetworks, Network Software: Protocol Hierarchies, Design and Issue for layers, Interfaces and services, Connection oriented and Connection less Services

Unit II

Reference Models, and OSI Reference Model, Networks Layers: The Physical layer: Maximum data rate of a channel, Transmission Media: Magnetic Media, Twisted Pair, Baseband and broadband Coaxial cable, Wire less transmission, Structure of telephone system, Switching, Multiplexing, ISDN Services and interface, Satellite communication,

Unit III

Data Link Layer, Error control, Flow control, Sliding Window Protocol, Channel Allocation Problem, Multiple Access Protocol: ALOHA, CSMA protocol, Collision Free protocol, Polling, FDM, TDM, Network layer: Routing Algorithm, Congestion Control Algorithm, IP Protocol, IP Addresses, subnets

Unit IV

Transport layer: Addressing, Establishing and releasing a connection, Multiplexing, Crash Recovery; TCP service Model, TCP protocol, The Application Layer: Network Security, Domain Name System, Email: Architecture and Services, Message formats, Message transfer

 

BCA403    Management Information Systems

Unit I

Introduction, Meaning and role of MIS, Definition of MIS, and System approach to MIS, MIS Organization, Development of Organizational Theory, Management and Organizational Behavior.

Unit II

Evolution of Information system/ Basic Information Systems/ Decision Making and MIS, MIS as a technique for making Programmed Decisions, Appropriate MIS response, MIS planning, General Business planning, Derivation of MIS plan, Prioritization and development strategies.

Unit III

Conceptual design of MIS, Definition of problem, System Objective and constraints, Analysis of info source, alternate system deigns and selection, conceptual system design and document.

Unit IV

Detailed system design and implementation, application of basic system design concept to MIS, Involvement of ND user and role of MIS department and system analyst, role of top management during design and implementation, system evaluation, review and update, Pit falls in MIS development

 

BCA404     Computer Oriented Numerical Methods

Unit I

Numerical system and error and types of error, Floating point Arithmetic, source of error, Zeros of transcendental equations and polynomials, system of non linear equations, Solution of Algebraic and Transcendental functions- Bisection Method, Iteration Method, Method of false position, Newton Raphson method, Generalized Newton’s method.

Unit II

Solution of system of linear equation, Guassian elimination method, Guass Jordon method, pivoting, iterative methods of Jacobi and Guass Seidel Methods, Matrix Inversion method, Method of factorization.

Unit III

Interpolation, Errors in Polynomial Interpolation, Finite Differences, Forward Differences, Backward Differences, Central Differences, Newton’s formula for Interpolation, Guass’s central difference formula, Stirling’s Formula, Bessel’s formula, Lagrange’s Interpolation Formula, Error in Lagrange’s Interpolation Formula.

Unit IV

Numerical Differentiation, Errors in Numerical Differentiation, Cubic Spline method, Numerical Integration: Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s 1/3 rule, Simpson’s 3/8 rule, Romberg’s Interpolation, Numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations: Solution by Taylor’s series, Euler’s Method, Runge- Kutta Methods.

 

BCA405   Multimedia Concepts & Application

Unit I

Multimedia concepts, Introduction to basic techniques of multimedia development and delivery, Process of multimedia Production, Hardware/Software requirement for multimedia, Components of multimedia: Textual information, images, Animation, Digital Audio, Digital Video, Planning and Design of Multimedia, Production of multimedia, Distribution of Multimedia

Unit II

Multimedia development Tools, Features of Software required for Multimedia: Integrating Multimedia Elements, Script Language Programs, Icon based programs, DLL, Hypertext, Cross Platform Capability, Runtime player for distribution, Authoring  tools: author ware, Everest Authoring System, Icon author, Image Q, QuickTime

Unit III

Elements of Hypertext: Nodes, Links, Annotations, Buttons, Editors, Browsers, Trails; Application of Hypertext: Business Applications, Computer Applications, Educational Applications, Entertainment and Leisure Applications; Planning Multimedia Program/Application: Goal, Outlining, Logic Flowchart, Program Story board, Creation of Building blocks, Copyright issue and management

Unit IV

Developing multimedia building blocks: Text, Graphics, Sound and Video in multimedia applications, Application areas of Multimedia: Entertainment, Edutainment, Business Communications, Public Access, Knowledge transfer; Multimedia- an interactive system for Teaching and Learning: Simulations, Composition; Multimedia- as a technological challenge for developers.

 

Semester – V

BCA501    Introduction To Software Engineering

Unit I

The Evolution of software, Software Crisis, Software Engineering Paradigms The Changing Nature of Software Development, The Role of the Software Engineer, The software life cycle, The relationship of software engineering to other areas of computer science, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Database, The evolving role of software, An Industry Perspective, Some Initial Solutions

Unit II

Requirements Analysis, Analysis Tasks, The Analyst, Problems in Requirements Analysis, Communication Techniques, Analysis Principles, Requirements Analysis Methods, Data Structure Oriented Methods, Formal Specification techniques, Automated Techniques for Requirement Analysis, Important qualities of software product and process, Correctness, Reliability, Robustness, User Friendliness, Verifiability, Maintainability, Reusability, Portability, Data Abstraction, Modularity, Principles of software engineering

Unit III

Structured Methodologies, Major Influencing factors, Evolution of End-User Computing, Emergence of CASE Tools, Use of Prototyping 4GL Tools, Relational Databases, Using the methodology, Choosing the Right Methodology, Implementing a Methodology, Current generations of software Development tools, Fourth Generation, Fifth Generation, Fourth Generation Languages, End -user computing, Prototyping, Non-procedural, Considerations in applications development, Problem in Applications Development, Limitation Of 4GLS, Impact OF 4GLS, Why study systems investigations?, The life cycle of an information system , Phase of Systems investigation, The people involved in a system investigation, Problems in System Investigations, General Principles of Systems Investigations

Unit IV

Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT), Methodology and standards, Expression of a Need, Perception of a Problem, Defining the problem, Relating the Problem to the domain of the Computer, Formalizing the Need, Stages in the Systems development life cycle, Specification Of Requirements, System Design, Programming, System Testing, Implementation, System Review, What is wrong with current development methods? Software and its increasing cost, Software errors and their impact, An Engineering Approach to Software, Case Tools, Generation of CASE Tools, Categories of CASE Tools, Selecting Case Tools, Deft Case Tools, Factors Affecting Software Development 

 

BCA502  TCP/IP Programming

Unit I

Overview of TCP/IP Components, Tel net, File Transfer Protocol, Simple Mail, Transfer Protocol, Domain Name System, Simple Network Management Protocol, Transmission Control Protocol, User Datagram Protocol, Internet Protocol, TCP/IP History, The Internet: The Structure of the Internet, The Internet  Layers, Internet work

Unit II

The Internet Protocol (IP), The Internet Protocol Datagram Header, Version Number, Header Length, Type of Service, Datagram Length (or Packet Length), Identification, Flags, Fragment Offset, Time to Live (TTL), Transport Protocol, Header Checksum, Sending Address and Destination Address, 128-Bit IP Addresses

Unit III

TCP and UDP, What Is TCP?, Following a Message, Ports and Sockets, TCP communications with the Upper Layers, Passive and Active Ports, TCP Timers Transmission Control Blocks and Flow Control, TCP Protocol Data Units, TCP and Connections, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Gateways, Gateways, Bridges and Routers, Gateway Protocols, Routing Daemons, Routing, The IGP and EGP Gateway Protocols, Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol (GGP), The External Gateway Protocol (EGP), Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP), , Telnet and FTP, Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Unit IV

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), The Berkeley Utilities, TCP/IP Configuration & Domain Name service, TCP/IP Configuration, Configuration Files, Setting the Host Name, The Loopback Driver, Managing ARP, Using ipconfig, The inetd Daemon, The netstat Command, The ping Utility, Tracing a Connection, Domain Name Service, DNS Structure, The Name Server, Resource Records, IN-ADDR-ARPA, Messages, The Name Resolver, BOOTP Protocol

 

BCA503  Web Designing Concepts- Html, MS Frontpage

Unit I

Internet, Evolution of Internet, Internet Applications, Internet Technologies, Clients and Servers, Hosts and Nodes, Internet Services, Getting connected, different types of connections; Dialup, Leased, VSAT, Internet Service Providers, Choosing an ISP, Address in internet: DNS system, IP addresses, connecting to dial-up internet accounts, Intranets. E-Mail: Basics, E-mail networks, mail protocols: SMTP, POP, IMAP, MIME, S/MIME, Accessing the mail system, E-mail working, understanding internet e-mail address, Format of an E-mail message, e-mail software, Abbreviations, Basic E –mail functions, E-mail clients Netscape Navigator, Outlook 98 and Outlook Express, E-mail Security, Mailing lists

Unit II

The components of HTML, A short history of World Wide Web, Keeping up with HTML standards extensions, and Difference, HTML Document Life Cycle: Developing Documents, Publishing Documents, Testing Published documents, Maintaining documents. Creating First HTML Document: Understanding basics of HTML Tools, Entering tags and attributes, Applying Structures tags, Linking documents, URL Anatomy, Types of URL's, Constructing Link Anchors, Inserting E-Mail, Links, Using Style Sheets, Implementing Style Sheets, Including Images, Developing images, Adding images, Using images as links, Creating Image maps, Using background images, Developing tables, Creating basic tables, Spanning  rows & columns, Adding captions, Formatting tables, Adding and formatting, borders

Unit III

HTML forms, Developing HTML forms, Determining form content, Creating Forms, Processing forms, Creating frames, Understanding frames, deciding to use frames, Creating frames, Accommodating  Nonframed browsers, Enabling effective navigation, Adding Java Script, What is Java script, Adding Java script to your Document, Adding Event Handlers, Tracking visitors Using Cookies, Bringing Pages to life with DHTML, What is DHTML?, Creating a collapsible Document, Converting Document to HTML

Unit IV

Generating HTML from a database, why generate HTML from a datable, Deciding to use a database, Choosing software, Generating static HTML from Database, Maintaining pages generating from database, making your Web site Searchable, Enabling visitors to search within your site, Finding and implementing search engines, Features of Ms-front page, utility of it using over HTML, Designing a site, Understanding and using Web ServersAn overview.

 

BCA504    RDBMS Concept Oracle

Unit I

Relational model concept, constraints, properties, relational algebra, CODD’s 12 rule or equivalent, concept of keys, tuple relation calculus, simple and complex queries using relational algebra.

Unit II

Interpreting Data, Entities And Relationships, Using E/R Diagrams, Reducing E/R Diagrams, Reducing E/R Diagrams To Relations, Normal form (1NF to 3NF and BCNF), lossless join dependencies, Client server database and knowledge based database, Domain Key, Normal Key.

Unit III

Functional dependencies, Multivated and Join dependencies and denormalization, acid properties of transaction, Storing & Retrieving Data, Language Support For An RDBMS, Organizing A Database, Interacting With A Database, End User's View Of A Database, Restricting Access To A Database

Unit IV

Ensuring Integrity Of Data And Database Architecture, The Concept Of Data Integrity, Grouping Commands Related to A Task, Controlling Concurrent Data Access, Oracle, Architecture, Oracle As A RDBMS, Architecture of Oracle

 

BCA505   Computer Graphics and Animation

Unit I

Application and introduction to various DTP packages, Graphics devices, Drawing geometry- mathematics for computer graphics, line drawing

Unit II

2D transformation, various line algos, curve and circle, clipping, panning, dragging, Filling, Character generation, Generation of Bar and Pie chart

Unit III

3D graphics transformation, Parallel projection, perspective projection, Hidden surface removal algorithm, back face removal algorithm, floating horizon technique.

Unit IV

Animation, Tweeking, morphing, Introduction to GKS primitive, Multimedia application

 

Semester – VI

BCA601  Introduction To Artifical Intelligence

Unit I

Introduction, General issue in A.I. problem solving, Production system, control strategies, various research

Unit II

Strategies of AND/OR graphs, Heuristics function, Minimax search approach

Unit III

First order predicate calculus, skolemisation, resolution principle, Unification

Unit IV

Sementic networks, frame system, value inheritance scripts, introduction to PROLOG

 

BCA602   Introduction To Internet Programming (Java, Active-X)

Unit I

Java programming language overview, Referring to applets and applications, The first step in writing Java application, Basic Java application, Primary application components, Class code block, Data (variables), Method code block (main in example program), Using semicolons and braces, Compiling and running a program, Requirement for your source file, Compiling, Running the program

Unit II

Java Primitive Types and Reference Types: Integral primitive types, Floating point primitive types, Textual primitive types: char, Logical primitive types: Boolean, Variable identifier conventions and rules, Picking a variable identify, Variable identifier naming rules, Variable identifier naming conventions, Using variables in a program, Constants, How primitives and constants are stores in memory, Using the string class as a data type, Using string and the new modifier, Using string without the new modifier, Values you can assign to string, How string are stores in memory, Using string reference variables, Using the main method

Unit III

Object References, Declaring an Object Reference, Creating Objects, Using Object Reference, Strings, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Using Inheritance, Containment Classes Abstract classes and Inheritance, Java2 Platform Class Library packages, Grouping classes in packages, Coding structure, Source file layout, Filenames, Java Methods & Object Interaction, Java Methods, Declaring methods, Invoking Methods, Types of methods, Passing Arguments, Method overloading, Constructors, Writing constructor, Object Interaction, Association, Composition, Composition and lifetime, Association and lifetime, Custody of an object, Typecasting, Promotion of expressions, Logical operations Arithmetic Conceptions, Arithmetic operators, Operators precedence, Increment and decrement operators, The if construct, The while loop, The for loop, while versus for, Th e do loop, The switch construct, The break statement, The continue statement, Java keywords

Unit IV

Graphical user interface development, The Java. AWT Package Class Hierarchy, GUI Project, Frame, Adding a button, Creating panels and complex lay out, ActiveX Technologies & Implementation, ActiveX-based architecture, ActiveX controls, ActiveX documents, ActiveX code components, Implementing Client-Side Solutions, Introduction to scripting, Client-side scripting, Implementing ActiveX controls, Implementing Server-side Solutions, Introducing server-side scripting, Authoring active server pages (ASP), Reading a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, Creating an HTTP response, Saving user information, Using ActiveX server components, Using ActiveX design-time controls, Programming Interfaces, Other application programming interfaces (APIs), Messaging API (MAPI), Systems network architecture (SNA') APIs, Crypto API, Telephony API, License Service API, Speech API

 

BCA603   Project Work