PGDCA (Advanced Diploma in Computer Application)

Advanced Diploma in Computer Application(ADCA)Duration-1 year

Sem -1

Paper - 1

Computer Application

• What Is A Computer
• Characteristics Of A Computer
• Generations Of Computer
• Introduction To The Binary System
• Components Of a Computer
• Input Units
• Output Units
• Processing Unit
• Storage
• Classification Of Computers
• Networking
• Software
• Operating  Systems
• Computer Languages
• Plug Ins
• Applications Of Computer
• Miscellaneous Terms

Using MS-DOS

• What Is A Disk Operating System
• How Is Ms-DosOrganised
• Different Versions Of Dos
• Directory Commands
• General Commands
• Disk Management Commands
• Dos Utility Commands
• Using Copy Con Command To Build File
• Introduction to Simple Batch File
• Batch File Command

Windows 7/8.1 or 10

• Introduction
• About Windows 7/8.1 or 10
• Starting Windows 7/8.1 or 10
• Components Of Windows Screen
• Taskbar
• Shutting Down Windows 7/8.1 or 10
• Windows Programs/Applications
• Using Windows Help
• File Management
• Window Explorer
• the control panel & settings
• icons in the control panel
• mouse & keyboards
• disk management
• new look of windows 7/8.1 or 10
• more built-in utilities
• improved security
• networking features
• multimedia Capabilities of Windows 7/8.1 or 10
• File and Folder Features
• Internet Features
• Features of Windows 7/8.1 or 10 Professional
• Features of Linux

Introductions   MS-Word

• Word Processing : An Introduction
• MS-Word –An Introduction
• Document Enhancement
• Automated Features in MS-Word
• Editing and Proofing Tools
• Drawing , Tables,Borders,and Shading Tools

• Creating a Table
• Sorting
• Find & Replace
• Spell Checking Confirm
• Autocorrect
• Mail Merge
• Templates
• Using Wizards
• Graphics with Word

 Introductions to MS-Excel

• Spreadsheet : An Introduction
• MS-Excel Introduction
• Formulas
• Functions
• Formatting and Printing
• Printing a work book
• Working format in excel
• Macros

 

Introductions MS- PowerPoint

• Presentation : An Introduction
• The PowerPoint Window
• Commands
• Creating Presentation
• Drawing in MS-PowerPoint
• Objects
• Clip Art

• Overview
• Inserting a chart
• Outlines and tables
• Tables From MS- Word
• Masters, Templates & Wizards
• Templates
• Wizards
• Slide Shows
• Printing your Presentation
• Running a Slide show
• Saving a Presentation as a Slide show

System Tools & Virus

• Scan Disk
• Disk Defragmenter
• Backup
• System Monitor
• What is Virus
• Norton Antivirus

 Internet & E-Commerce

• What is Internet
• Who manages the Internet
• Internet Protocols
• The IP Address
• Uniform Resource Locator(URL)
• Routing Packets over the Internets
• Internet Service provider(ISP)
• Type of Internet Connections
• Services over the Internet
• The World Wide Web
• Using Internet Explorer
• E-Commerce
• E-Convergence
• Security on the Internet
• IT Enables Services (ITES)

Outlooks Express

• Getting Started with Outlook Express
• Folders
• Using Outlook Express
• Using the Address Book
• Utilities
• Managing Newsgroups

Dreamweaver

• Components of  a Web Page
• Getting Started with Front Page
• Creating Lists
• Creating Tables
• Inserting Forms
• Editing HTML
• Adding Script
• Introduction to Frames
• Introduction to a Web
• Other Utilities

MS-Access

• Introduction to Database
• Introduction to RDBMS
• Introduction to MS Access
• Tables
• Forms
• Queries
• Reports

ISM

• Malayalam Typing

 

 

Paper- 2

System Analysis &Development(SAD)

Overview of System Analysis And Design

• Rely-Life Business System
• Type Of Information System
• Basic Principles Of Successful System

System Development Life Cycle

• Life Cycle Models
• System Documentation Considerations

The System Analyst

• Skills, Qualifications And Responsibilities
• Character And Ethics

System Planning And Analysis

• Various Feasibility Studies
• Cost Benefit Analysis

Tool And Techniques For Modelling

• Decision tree
• System flowchart

System Design AndModelling

• File access and organization
• Database design

Input And Output Design Control

• Forms
• Input design

Modular and structured design

• Specifications

System Development, Implementation And Maintenance

• System Implementation
• Maintenance

System audit and security

• Risk analysis
• Control measures
• Firewall

Object Oriented Analysis and Modelling

• The Features Of Oops
• Models Of Oops
• Relationship Among Model

Management Information System

• Different systems

 

Fundamentals Of C Language

• Characters in c
• Identifier
• keywords
• tokens
• variables
• constant

Operators And Expressions

• Arithmetic Operators
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• Increment And Decrement Operators(++  And  --)
• Assignment Operators
• Conditional Operator (? :)
• Bitwise Operator

Input /Output Functions And Statements

• Formatted Input/output functions
• Character Input/output Function

Control Statements in C

• If-else statement
• Nested if – else statement
• else-if ladder
• Switch statement
• go to statement
• continue statement
• exit function

 

Loop Control Structures in C

• for loop
• while loop
• do-while loop

Arrays and Subscripted Variables

• one-dimensional array
• two-dimensional array

String Manipulations in C

• String handling functions in c
• Reading/writing strings
• Additional string handling functions
• operations with characters

Functions in C

• user-defined functions
• function declaration
• calling function
• actual or formal arguments
• function prototypes
• recursion
• void function
• Storage class in c

Structures and Unions

• Structure variables and arrays
• Structure as a function arguments
• size of() of a structure
• enum Data Type

Pointers

• pointers as function arguments
• pointer with arrays
• dynamic memory allocation
• pointer with string
• pointer with structures
• pointers to functions

 

 

Files

• Types of files
• File declaration
• File processing

Visual Basic Programming Language(VB)

The Integrated Development Environment

• Visual Basic Programming Language
• Visual Basic Development Environment
• Creating A VB Application

Managing projects

• Creating An Interface
• Setting Properties
• Coding
• Running The Application
• Creating An Executable File
• Customizing The Environment
• Object Browser

Introduction To Visual Basic Language

• Data Type
• Variables
• Constants
• Operators
• Arrays
• Objects
• Procedures
• Decision Structures

Forms And Menus

• Form Object
• Menus
• Using Dialog Boxes

Controls

• Control Categories
• Commonly Used Intrinsic Controls
• Commonly Used ActiveX Controls
• file system controls
• custom controls

Concepts Of Objects And Classes

• The Visual Basic Class
• Creating Vb Classes
• Class Module Vs Standard Module
• Building Classes With The Class Builder
• Object Linking And Embedding
• OLE Container Control

Visual Basic and Windows API

• The windows API and Visual Basic
• Using The API Text Viewer Application
• Dynamic-Link Libraries(DLL)
• Decaling a DLL procedure
• Manipulating graphics

Graphics with Visual Basic

• Displaying Text On Form and Picture Box
• Adding Pictures to the application
• The Drawing Method
• Working with color

Event Driven Programing

• Event Handler
• Some Common Events

Multiple Document Interface (MDI)

• Creating an MDI Application
• The MDI Notepad Application
• Parent And Child Application

Data Manager and Data Controls

• Visual Basic Database Architecture
• Data Manager
• Data Control

 

Data Controls

• Data Access Object Model
• Opening Database
• Manipulating Records

Sem - 2

Paper -1

HTML & Web Page Designing

• Introduction to HTML
• Understanding the Basic Tags
• Tags that affect the appearance of text
• Indenting and Creating spaces with &nbsp and Creating lists
• Creating Links
• Images
• Tables
• Frames
• Forms
• Text formatting

C++ Program Structure

• Pre-Processor Directives And Header File
•  Header File
• User Defined Data Type
• Difference Between C And C++
• Literals

Control Statements

• The If  Else Statement
• The Switch Statement
• Break Statement
• Continue Statement
• Goto Statement

Looping Statements

• The For Loop Statements
• While Statement
• Do-While Statements

Additional Operators In C++

• Dummy Block({})
• The Scope Resolution Operator (::)
• Global Variable Accessing
• Reference Operator

Macro

• Non Argument Macro
• Argument Macro

 

Arrays

• Single- Dimension Arrays
• Two- Dimension Arrays

Class And Objects

• Accessing the class elements
• normal class
• nested class
• class object as an array
• class object as a pointer

Dynamic memory allocation

• Memory allocation for 1D-Array
• Memory allocation for 2D-Array

Constructors and destructors

• Void constructor
• Single constructor
• multiple constructor
• copy constructor
• default constructor

Inheritance

• Single inheritance
• Multiple inheritance
• Hierarchical inheritance
• Multilevel inheritance
• Hybrid inheritance
• Multi Path inheritance

Polymorphism

Compile time polymorphism

• Function Overloading
• Function Overriding
• Void Pointer
• Operator overloading
• Base class object receiving derived class object’s value
• Base class pointer holding derived class object’s address

Virtual Function

Friend Function

Friend Class

Abstract class

Generic Functions

• Template functions
• Templates with different arguments
• Templates function with other data types
• Objects declaration using templates class
• Template using base class and derived class
• Template with friend function

Exception handling

• Try
• Throw
• Catch

File Handling in C++

DBMS –(Database Management System)

• Introduction of Database and DBMS
•  Advantages and Disadvantages of DBMS
• Components of DBMS
• Levels of Architecture
• Instance and Schemes
• DBMS facilities
• Database Users
• Data dictionaries
• Entity Relationship models
• Attributes
• Mapping  constraints
• Aggregation
• Mapping cardinalities
• Entity sets and Relationship sets
• Traditional Data Models
• Relational Model
• Relations
• Normalization
• Relational Algebra
• Tuple Oriented Relational Calculus
• Relational Database Design
• Demoralization
• Overview of Advanced DBMS

Basics of Java

 

• Java - What, Where and Why? 
• History and Features of Java 
• Internals of Java Program
• Difference between JDK,JRE and JVM 
• Internal Details of JVM 
• Variable and Data Type
• Control Statements
• Looping Statements
• Array

 

OOPS Concepts

 

• Advantage of OOPs
• Object and Class
• Method Overloading
• Constructor
• static variable, method and block 
• this keyword
• Inheritance (IS-A)
• Method Overriding
• Covariant Return Type
• super keyword
• final keyword
• Runtime Polymorphism
• static and Dynamic binding
• Abstract class and Interface
• Package and Access Modifiers
• Encapsulation
• Object class 

String Handling

• String: What and Why?
• Immutable String 
• String Functions
• String Comparison
• String Concatenation 
• Substring
• Methods of String class
• String Buffer class

Exception Handling

• Exception Handling: What and Why? 
• try and catch block
• Multiple catch block 
• Nested try 
• finally block 
• throw keyword 
• Exception Propagation
• throws keyword 
• Exception Handling with Method Overriding
   

Multithreading

 

• Multithreading: What and Why?
• Life Cycle of a Thread 
• Creating Thread
• Thread Scheduler
• Sleeping a thread
• Joining a thread 
• Thread Priority
• Garbage Collection
• Runnable class 
   

Input and output

 

• FileOutputStream&FileInputStream 
• ByteArrayOutputStream 
• SequenceInputStream
• BufferedOutputStream&BufferedInputStream 
• FileWriter&FileReader
• CharArrayWriter 
• Input from keyboard by InputStreamReader
• Input from keyboard by Scanner 

 

AWT Controls and Swing Controls

 

• Layout Managers
• Event Handling
• The Action Listener interface
• Panels
• Classes for various controls

• JButton class
• JRadioButton class 
• JTextArea class 
• JComboBox class
• JTable class
• JTree
• Open Dialog Box 
• Creating Notepad
• Creating applications

 

DBMS –(Database Management System)

• Introduction of Database and DBMS
• Advantages and Disadvantages of DBMS
• Components of DBMS
• Levels of Architecture
• Instance and Schemes
• DBMS facilities
• Database Users
• Data dictionaries
• Entity Relationship models
• Attributes
• Mapping  constraints
• Aggregation
• Mapping cardinalities
• Entity sets and Relationship sets
• Traditional Data Models
• Relational Model
• Relations
• Normalization
• Relational Algebra
• Tuple Oriented Relational Calculus
• Relational Database Design
• Demoralization
• Overview of Advanced DBMS

 

C-part 2

• Arrays
• Stacks
• Queues
• Linked List
• Binary Search Tree
• Sorting
• Searching

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