Basic Computer Course And Web Designing

INTRODUCTION

The Basic Computer Course and Web Designing programme of Asutosh College has been introduced with an idea of imparting basic level of computer literacy to the students, thereby enabling them to disseminate knowledge on all aspects of Information, Electronics & Communication Technology in different walks of life. The curriculum of the programme is designed in equivalence to Course on Computer Concept (CCC), offered by National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (erstwhile DOEACC Society), where the students acquire knowledge on using the computer for basic purposes of preparing personnel/business letters, viewing information on internet (the web), receiving and sending mails, preparing presentations, creation and maintenance of small databases, designing of web pages etc. Hence, this course helps the students to develop their IT skills towards appropriate ends.

THE BEGINNING

The Unit has been set up in 01/07/2019, under the leadership of Sri Arnab Kumar Ghoshal, Assistant Professor in Computer Science.

OBJECTIVES

• To provide job oriented education & training.
• To provide opportunity for the study of modern methods of information processing and its applications.
• To acquaint students with the knowledge of computer systems with emphasis on their uses and limitation.
• To develop among students the programming techniques and the problem solving skills through programming.

DURATION

6 Months (One Semester)

CURRICULUM

MODULE 1 (BASIC COMPUTER COURSE)
A. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER:     (5 Hours)

• Introduction.
• Objectives.
• What is Computer?                                                            
• History, Characteristics, Basic Applications.
• Concept of Hardware and Software.
• Applications of IECT, e-governance , Multimedia and Entertainment.

B. INTRODUCTION TO GUI BASED OS:   (5Hours)

• Introduction
• Objectives.
• Basics of popular OS (LINUX , WINDOWS).
• The user interface (Task Bar, Icons, start Menu, Running an Application).
• OS Simple Setting (changing system date and time, changing Display properties, to add / Remove a windows component, changing mouse properties etc.).
• Files and directory Management.
• Types of files.

C. MS –WORD:(5Hours)

• Introduction.
• Objectives.
• Word Processing Basic.
• Opening and Closing docs(opening documents, save, save as, page setup, selecting text, editing text, find & replace).
• Text Creation and Manipulation.
• Formatting the text (Paragraph Indenting, bullets and Numbering, changing case) .
• Table Manipulation (draw table, changing cell width and height, Alignment of text in a cell, delete/ insertion of  rows  & column ,border and shading).
• Proofing Tools (checking and correcting spellings, handling  graphics , document).

D. MS – EXCEL :    (5Hours)

• Concepts.
• Elements Of Excel (opening of spreadsheet, addressing of  Cells, printing of spread sheets, saving workbooks).
• Manipulation of cells (Inserting, deleting worksheets, entering data in a cell / formula coping and moving from selected cells, handling operators in  Formulas, functions, basic mathematical functions).
• Formatting a Worksheet: Formatting cells-(changing data alignment, changing date,number, character of currency  format changing font, adding borders/colors).
• Charts & Graphs: creating, previewing & modifying charts.

E. MS-  POWER POINT:     (5 Hours)

• Basics :
  • Opening and saving presentation.
  • Adding and formatting slides.
  • Designing Slide Shows.
  • Running and controlling a slide show.
  • Printing presentations.

F. DATABASE OPERATION: (5 Hours)

• Data Manipulation (concept: database relational database, integrity. Operations : Creating, dropping, manipulating).
• Table Structure: manipulation of data: (query, data entry, form, reports).

 

MODULE 2  (INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND WEB DESIGN)

A. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET:   (2 Hours)

• Internet, Growth of Internet, Owners of the internet, Anatomy of the Internet, ARPA net and Internet history of the world wide web, basic internet  terminologies, Netiquette.
• Internet applications- Commerce on the internet, Impact of the Internet on the society-Crime through the Internet.

B. TCP/IP – INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND PROTOCOL:   ( 5 Hours)

• Packet switching technology.
• Internet Protocols: TCP/IP, Router.
• Internet addressing scheme: Machine addressing scheme, e-mail addresses, resource addresses.

C. INTERNET CONNECTIVITY:     (5 Hours)

• Connectivity types: level one, level two and level three connectivity.
• Setting up a connection: hardware requirement, selection of a modem, software requirement, modem configuration internet accounts by ISP: telephone line options – dialup connections through the telephone system ,dedicated connections through the telephone system , ISDN.
• Protocol options- shell, SLIP, PPP.
• Service options – E-mail, WWW, news firewall etc.

D. INTERNET NETWORK :     (3 Hours)

• Network definition.
• Common terminologies: LAN, WAN, Node. Host, workstation, bandwidth, interoperability, Network administrator Network, security.
• Network Components: servers, clients  communication media.
• Types of network :peer to peer, clients server.
• Addressing in internet: DNS, domain name and their organization, understanding the internet protocol address.
• Network topologies: bust, star and ring, Ethernet FDDI, ATM and internet.

E.  SERVICES ON INTERNET (DEFINITION AND FUNCTIONS):  (4 Hours)

• E-mail, WWW, Telnet, FTP, IRC and search engine.

F. ELECTRONIC MAIL:   ( 8 Hours)

• Email networks and server.
• Email protocols- SMTP, POP3, IMAp4 ,  MIME6.
• Structure of an Email – Email address, Email header, body and  attachments.
• Email clients: Netscape mail Clients , outlook express , Web based E-mail.
• E-mail encryption –address book, signature file.

G. CURRENT TRENDS ON INTERNET :  (3 Hours)

• Languages.
• Internet phone.
• Internet video.
• Collaborative computing.
• E-commerce.

H. WEB PUBLISHING AND BROWSING:      (5 Hours)

• Overview.
• SGML.
• Web hosting.
• HTML.
• CGL.
• Documents interchange standards.
• Components of Web publishing, document management, Web page design consideration and principles.
• Search and meta search engines, WWW, browser, HTTP, publishing tools.

I. BASICS OF HTML:  (10 Hours)

• HTML page structure.
• HTML text.
• HTML links.
• HTML document tables.
• HTML frames.
• HTML images.
• Multimedia.

J. INTERNET SECURITY MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS, INFORMATION PRIVACY AND COPY RIGHT ISSUES:  ( 5 Hours)

• Overview of Internet security.
• Firewalls.
• Internet security.
• Management concepts and information privacy and copyright Issues.
• Basics of asymmetric cryptosystems.

STUDENTS DATABASE

PRESENT MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME (2019 ONWARDS)

ACTIVITIES (2019 ONWARDS)

This unit has conducted all of its classes and examinations using Google Meet platform during Covid-19 Pandemic.

For the academic session 2020-2021, all the students have enrolled themselves in the course via Google Form which was designed by the Unit Coordinator Sri Arnab Kumar Ghoshal, Assistant Professor in Computer Science. And it is evident from the student database that an overwhelming response has been received from the students for this course.