Alagappa University B.Sc IT Syllabus

Can you provide me the syllabus of B.Sc IT course offered by Alagappa University as I have lost my syllabus and now exams are near so needed it for the preparation of the exam?

[Kiran Chandar]

The syllabus of B.Sc IT course offered by Alagappa University as you have lost your syllabus and now exams are near so needed it for the preparation of the exam is as follow:

I YEAR – I SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 4BIT1C1

CORE COURSE I – PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND OS

Unit I
An overview of Revolution in computers and communications: From the analog to the digital age: The “New Story” of computers and communications – The six elements of a computer and communication system – Communication: Development in Computer Technology, Developments in communication technology – Computer and communications Technology combined: Connectivity and interactivity The Ethics of information technology.

Storage and Databases: Foundations for interactivity, Multimedia and knowledge Storage Capacity– Compression and Decompression – Criteria for rating Secondary Storage Devices– Diskettes – Hard Disks – Optical Disks – Magnetic Tapes – Organizing Data in Secondary storage: Databases, Data Storage – Hierarchy and concept of the key field – File management: Basic Concepts – File Management systems – Data management systems – Types of database organization.

Unit II
Application software: Tools for thinking and working – Ethics and intellectual property Rights: The four types of application software – The user interface and other basic user features – Word Processing – Spreadsheets – Database Software – Presentation Graphics Software – Communications Software – Desktop accessories and personal information managers integrated software and studies – Groupware – Internet WEB browsers – Specialized Software.

Unit III
Communications: Stating along with the information highway: The Practical uses of communications and connectivity – Telephone related communication services – Video/Voice communication: Video conferencing and picture phones – online information services – The internet – Shared Resources: Workgroup Computing, Electronic Data Interchange and intranets: Telecomputing and virtual offices – Using a microcomputer to communicate: Analog and Digital Signals – Modems and Datacomm Software, ISDN Lines and Cable Modems – Communications Channels: communications networks – Local Networks

Unit IV
Introduction: Operating System – Batch System – Time Sharing – Personal Computer System– Parallel Systems – Real Time Systems – Distributed Systems – Computer System Operation – I/O Structure –– Hardware Protection – General System Architecture – System Components Operating System Services – System calls – System programs – System structure – Virtual machines.

Unit V
Process Management: Process Concept – Process scheduling – operations on processes – cooperating processes – Inter process communication – Threads overview – benefits – user and kernel threads – Multithreading models – CPU scheduling concepts – Scheduling criteria– Scheduling Algorithms.

CORE COURSE III – PROGRAMMING IN C AND DATA STRUCTURES

Unit I
Introduction to C – Character set – Identifiers and keywords – Data types – constants – Variables – declarations – Operator and Expressions – Data input, output and control statements: Preliminaries – single character input and output – Entering input data – Writing output data – gets and puts functions – Branching and looping – Nested control structures – Switch – Break – Continue and Goto – Function: defining a function – Accessing a function – Passing arguments to a function – Recursion – Library function – Macros – C preprocessor – Program structure: Storage classes – Automatic variables – Global variables – Static variables– Multiple programming – Bitwise operation.

Unit II
Arrays: defining and processing an array – Passing on array to functions – Multidimensional arrays – arrays and strings.
Pointers: Fundamentals – declarations – passing pointers to functions – usage in single dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays – Dynamic memory allocation – operations on pointers – arrays of pointers – passing functions to other functions.

Unit III
Structures and Unions: defining a structure – Processing a structure – Structures and pointers– Passing structures to functions – Self referential structures – Bit fields – Unions – Enumerations.
Data file: Opening and Closing a data file – Creating a data file – Processing a data file – Unformatted data file – Command line parameters.

Unit IV
Stack: Definition and Examples – Representing stacks in C – An example: Infix, Postfix and Prefix. Queues and Lists: The queues and Sequential representation – Linked lists –Lists in C.

Unit V
Trees: Binary trees – Binary tree Representations – Representing Lists and Binary Trees – trees and their applications.


(Alagappa University B.Sc IT Syllabus)