Section I: Grammar

Expressing in Style; Words often confused; One-word substitution; Phrases; Idioms.

Section II: Advanced Reading

Paraphrasing; Interpreting visual information: Tables, Graphs, Charts; Speed Reading. Comprehension and Analysis of the book, “Who Moved My Cheese.”

Section III: Effective Writing

Business Correspondences: Fax, Email; Taking Notes; Making Inquiries; Placing Orders; Asking & Giving Information; Registering Complaints; Handling Complaints; Drafting Notices; Job Applications; Expository Composition; Argumentative Composition; Techniques of Argument; Logical Presentation; Descriptive Composition; Narrative Composition; Summary Writing, Proposal; Abstract, Agenda, Minutes.

Section IV: Speaking

Business Etiquettes; Impromptu Speech; Debate; Role Play; Presentations.

Section IV: Listening

Business-related Conversation Exercises.

Errors in Numerical Calculations: Numbers and their accuracy, Errors and their Computations- Absolute, Relative and Percentage, General Error Formula. Solution of Algebraic and Transcendental Equations: Introduction, Bisection method, Iteration method, Method of False Position, Newton- Raphson method

Interpolation: Introduction, Errors in Polynomial Interpolation, Finite Differences – Forward, Backward and Central, Detection of errors using Difference tables, Differences of a Polynomial, Newton’s formulae for Interpolation, Central Difference Interpolation.

Formulae: Gauss’s Central Difference Formula, Interpolation with unevenly spaced points, Lagrange’s Interpolation Formula, Divided Differences and their properties- Newton’s General Interpolation Formula

Numerical Differentiation and Integration: Introduction, Numerical Differentiation and Errors, Numerical Integration – Trapezoidal Rule, Simpson’s 1/3 Rule, Simpson’s 3/8 Rule. Numerical Solution of Linear System of Equations: Direct Methods- Gauss-Jordan Method, Gauss Elimination Method, Method of Factorization, Ill- conditioned Linear System, Iterative Method- Gauss- Jacobi Method, Gauss-Seidel Method

Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations: Solution by Taylor’s Series, Euler’s method, Modified Euler’s method, Runge-Kutta method of 2nd and 4th order

Introduction to SAD

Fundamentals of System, Important Terms related to Systems, Classification of Systems, Real Life Business Subsystems, Real Time Systems, Distributed Systems, Development of a successful System, Various Approaches for development of Information Systems. Structured Analysis and Design Approach, Prototype, Joint Application Development.

Systems Analyst-A Profession

Why do Businesses need Systems Analysts? Users, Analysts in various functional areas, Role of a Systems Analyst Duties of a Systems Analyst, Qualifications of a Systems Analyst, Analytical Skills, Technical Skills, Management Skills, Interpersonal Skills.

Process of System Development

Systems Development Life Cycle, Phases of SDLC, Project Identification and Selection, Project Initiation and planning, Analysis, Logical Design, Physical Design, Implementation, Maintenance, Product of SDLC Phases, Approaches to Development, Prototyping, Joint Application Design, Participatory Design, Case Study.

Fundamentals of C: Identifier and keywords - data types - constants - Variables - Declarations - Expressions - Statements - Arithmetic, Unary, Relational and logical , Assignment and Conditional Operators - Library functions. Simple C programs - Flow of control - if, if-else, while, do-while, for loop, Nested control structures - Switch, break and continue, go to statements - Comma operator. Functions -Definition - prototypes - Passing arguments – Recursion- Storage Classes - Automatic, External, Static, Register Variables .

Arrays - Defining and Processing - Passing arrays to functions - Multi-dimension arrays - Arrays and Strings.

Structures and unions - User defined data types - Passing structures to functions - Self-referential structures - Unions - Bit wise operations.

Pointers - Declarations - Passing pointers to Functions - Operation on Pointers - Pointer and Arrays - Arrays of Pointers - Structures and Pointers - Files: Creating, Processing ,Opening and Closing a data file.

The C Preprocessor :

# define to Implement Constants, # define to Create Functional Macros, Reading from Other Files using # include ,Conditional Selection of Code using #ifdef, Using #ifdef for different computer types.

Using #ifdef to temporarily remove program statements, Other Preprocessor Commands, Predefined Names Defined by Preprocessor, Macros Vs Functions.

Introduction: Introduction to Operating Systems, Operating system services, multiprogramming, time-sharing system, storage structures, system calls, multiprocessor system. Basic concepts of CPU scheduling, Scheduling criteria, Scheduling algorithms,algorithm evaluation, multiple processor scheduling, real time scheduling I/0 devices organization, I/0 devices organization, I/0 devices organization, I/0 buffering.

Process Management: Process concept, process scheduling, operations on processes, threads, inter-process communication, precedence graphs, critical section problem, semaphores, classical problems of synchronization. Deadlock problem, deadlock prevention, avoidance, recovery .

Memory Management: Concepts of memory management, logical and physical address space, swapping, contiguous and non-contiguous allocation, paging, segmentation, and paging combined with segmentation. Virtual memory, demand paging, page replacement algorithms, allocation of frames, thrashing, demand segmentation. Security threads protection intruders-Viruses-trusted system.

Introduction: Introduction to Open Source technology, Files System hierarchy, Logging in, Simple commands like ls, cp, mv, wc, sort, tsort, cat, cut, grep, dd, head, tail, uniq, diff, echo, touch, which, whereis, whatis, type, who, whoami, finger, w (option and variations included), tty, ,uname, printf, ps, pwd , history, exec, kill, pkill, clear, lpstate, cancel, compress, uncompress, exit. Directory commands like: Brief introduction to file system, mkdir, dir, cd, df, dfspace, du, ll, dirname, rmdir, dir access permission, changing access permission for files and directories like: chmod, chgrp, chown, hard & soft links. Environments and path setting. I/O redirection & piping commands

Introduction to programming paradigms : Concept of object, class, objects as variables of class data type, difference in structures and class in terms of access to members, private and public members of a class, data & function members. Characteristics of OOP- Data hiding, Encapsulation, data security.

Basics of C++: Structure of C++ programs, introduction to defining member functions within and outside a class, keyword using, declaring class, creating objects, constructors & destructor functions, Initializing member values with and without use of constructors, simple programs to access & manipulate data members, cin and cout functions. Dangers of returning reference to a private data member, constant objects and members function, composition of classes, friend functions and classes, using this pointer, creating and destroying objects dynamically using new and delete operators. Static class members, container classes and iterators, proxy classes.

Internet Basics: Basic concepts, Communication on the Internet, Internet Domains, Internet Server Identities, Establishing Connectivity on the Internet, Client IP Address, A brief overview of TCP/IP and its Services, Transmission Control Protocol, Web Server, Web Client, Domain Registration.

Introduction to HTML: HTML, HTML Tags, Commonly Used HTML Commands, Title and Footers, Text Formatting, Text Style, Lists, Adding Graphics to HTML Documents, Tables, Linking Documents, Frames.

Java Script : Java Script in Web Pages, Advantages of Java Script, Advantages of JavaScript, Data Types and Literals, Type Casting , Java Script Array, Operators and Expression, Conditional Checking , Function, User Defined Function. Understanding XML: SGML, XML, XML and HTML

Java Evolution and Overview of Java Language: How Java differs from C and C++,Java and Internet, Java and World Wide Web, Introduction, Simple Java Program, More of Java, An Application with Two Classes, Java Program Structure, Java Tokens, Java Statements, Implementing a Java Program, Java Virtual Machine, Command Line Arguments, Programming Style. Constants, Variables, and Data Types: Introduction, Constants, Variables, Data Types,Declaration of Variables, Giving Values of Variables, Scope of Variables, Symbolic Constants, Type Casting, Getting Values of Variables, Standard Default Values.

Operators and Expressions: Introduction, Arithmetic Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators, Assignment Operators, Increment and Decrement Operators, ConditionalOperators, Bitwise Operators, Special Operators, Arithmetic Expressions, Evolution of Expressions, Precedence of Arithmetic Operators, Type Conversion in Expressions, Operator Precedence and Associativity, Mathematical Functions.

Introduction to Software Engineering: Characteristics, Emergence of Software Engineering, Software Metrics & Models, Process & Product Metrics. Software Life Cycle Models: Waterfall, Prototype and Spiral Models and their Comparison.

Software Project Management: Size Estimation- LOC and FP Metrics, Cost Estimation-Delphi and Basic COCOMO, Introduction to Halstead’s Software Science, Staffing Level Estimation- Putnam’s Model. Software Requirements Specification: SRS Documents, their Characteristics and Organization.

Software Design: Classification, Software Design Approaches, Function Oriented Software Design, Structured Analysis- Data flow Diagrams and Structured Design, Introduction to Object Oriented Design.

INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE SYSTEMS: Overview and History of DBMS. File System vs DBMS .Advantage of DBMS Describing and Storing Data in a DBMS. Queries in DBMS. Transaction management and Structure of a DBMS, Components of DBMS; The 3 level architecture of DBMS – Hierarchical, Network, and Relational Model; Distributed Database; KBDBMS; OODBMS (Basic Concepts).

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL: Overview of Data Design Entities, Attributes and Entity Sets, Relationship and Relationship Sets. Features of the ER Model-Key Constraints, Participation Constraints, Weak Entities, Class Hierarchies,Aggregation, Conceptual Data Base, Design with ER Model-Entity vs Attribute, Entity vs Relationship Binary vs Ternary Relationship and Aggregation vs ternary Relationship Conceptual Design for a Large Enterprise. RELATIONSHIP ALGEBRA AND CALCULUS: Relationship Algebra Selection and Projection, Set Operations Renaming, Joint, Division, Relation Calculus, Expressive Power of Algebra and Calculus.

SQL QUERIES PROGRAMMING AND TRIGGERS: The Forms of a Basic SQL Query, Union, Intersection and Exception,Nested Queries ,Correlated Nested Queries, Set-Comparison Operations, Aggregate Operators, Null Values and Embedded SQL, Dynamic SQL, ODBC and JDBC, Triggers and Active Databases.

Introduction to Digital Circuits: The Basic Computer; The Von-Neumann Architecture, Instruction Execution: An Example, Instruction Cycle Interrupts, Interrupts and Instruction Cycle, Computers: Then and Now, The Beginning, First Generation Computers, Second Generation Computers, Third Generation Computers, Later Generations.

The Data Representation: Data Representation, Number Systems, Decimal Representation in Computers, Alphanumeric Representation, Data Representation for Computation, Error Detection and Correction Codes.

Introduction to Data Structure and Application of Data Structure

Algorithms and Analysis of Algorithms: Definition, Structure and Properties of Algorithms, Development of an Algorithm, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structure – Definition and Classification, Efficiency of Algorithms, Apriory Analysis, Asymptotic Notations, Time Complexity of an Algorithm using O Notation, Polynomial Vs Exponential Algorithms, Average, Best and Worst case Complexities, Analyzing Recursive Programs, Open source software development process.

Linked List, Linked Stacks and Linked Queues: Singly Linked Lists, Circularly Linked Lists, Doubly Linked Lists, Multiply Linked Lists, Applications of Linked Lists, Introduction to Linked Stack and Linked Queues, Operations on Linked Stacks and Linked Queues, Dynamic Memory Management and Linked Stack, Implementations of Linked Representations, Applications of Linked Stacks and Linked Queues.

UNIT-I

COMBINATORICS: Permutation and Combination, Repetition and Constrained Repetition, Binomial Coefficients, Binomial Theorem.

UNIT-II

Frequency distributions, Histograms and frequency polygons, Measures of central tendency: Mean, Mode, Median, Dispersion, Mean deviation and standard deviation. Moments, Skewness, kurtosis,

UNIT–III

Elementary probability theory: Definition, conditional probability, Probability distribution, mathematical expectation'

Theoretical distribution: Binomial , poisson and Normal distribution, Relation between the binomial, poisoned Normal distribution.

UNIT-IV

Correlation and Regression: Linear Correlation, Measure of Correlation, Least Square Regression lines.

UNIT-V

Basic of sampling theory: Sample mean and variance, students t-test, test of Hypotheses and significance, degree of freedom, Z-test, small and large sampling, Introduction to Monte Carlo method.

Introduction to .Net Technology

Why .Net?, The .Net Framework Class Library, Working with the .Net FCL, Namespaces, Types of a .Net Namespace.

The Visual Basic.Net Language

VB.Net Data types, Operators, Decision Statements- If..then, If..then..else, Select.. Case, Loop Statements- While, Do .. Loop, For .. Next, For Each ..Next, Arrays.

OOP using VB.Net

Object Oriented features- Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance, Declaring Classes, Implementing Typecasting, Procedures and Functions, Optional arguments, Error handling in Procedures, Properties, Public and Private variables, Types of Properties, Polymorphism, Inheritance, Method Overriding.

Computer Graphics: Picture analysis, Overview of programmer’s model of interactive graphics, Fundamental problems in geometry. Scan Conversion: point, line, circle, ellipse polygon, Aliasing, and introduction to Anti Aliasing (No antialiasing algorithm).

2D & 3D Co-ordinate system: Homogeneous Co-ordinates, Translation, Rotation, Scaling, Reflection, Inverse transformation, Composite transformation. Polygon Representation, Flood Filling, Boundary filling. Point Clipping, Cohen-Sutherland Line Clipping Algorithm, Polygon Clipping algorithms.

Hidden Lines & Surfaces: Image and Object space, Depth Buffer Methods, Hidden Facets removal, Scan line algorithm, Area based algorithms. Curves and Splines & Rendering: Parametric and Non parametric Representations, Bezier curve, BSpline, Basic illumination model, diffuse reflection, specular reflection, shading, Ground shading, ray tracing, color models like RGB, YIQ, CMY, HSV

Data Transmission Basic Concepts and Terminology: Data Communication Model, Communication Tasks, Parallel & Serial Transmission, Transmission Models, Transmission Channel, Data Rate, Bandwidth Signal Encoding Schemes, Data Compression, Transmission Impairments, Layering and Design Issues, OSI Model, Services and Standards. Computer Network: Network Topology, Performance of Network, Network Classification, Advantages & Disadvantages of Network, Transmission Media (guided and unguided), Network Architecture, OSI Reference Model, TCP/IP, SNA and DNA.

Data Line Devices: Modems, DSL, ADSL, Multiplexer and Different Multiplexing Techniques: (FDM, TDM).

Accounting Fundamentals: Basic Concepts of Accounting,The Accounting Process; Cash Book and Bank Reconciliation; Other Subsidiary Books Bills of Exchange; Final Accounts.

Concepts Relating to Final Accounts: Final Accounts – I; Final Accounts – II; Errors and their Rectification.

Consignment and Joint Ventures: Consignments Accounts – I; Consignments Accounts – II; Consignments Accounts – III; Joint Venture Accounts.

Web2.0 and XHTML

What Is Web 2.0? Introduction to Web 2.0 terms:Search, Content Networks, Blogging, Social Networking, Social Media, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Web Services, Introduction to XHTML, Syntactic Differences between HTML and XHTML, Standard XHTML Document Structure, An example of XHTML covering Basic Syntax, Images, Hypertext Links, Lists and Tables, Creation of an XHTML Form, Internal Linking and MetaElements.

Introduction to XML

XML Basics, XML Document Structure, XML Name-spaces, Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, Displaying XML Documents, XSL and CSS.

Introduction to E-commerce: E-commerce: The revolution is just beginning, The visions and forces behind E-commerce, Understanding E-commerce.

E-commerce business models and concepts: E-commerce business models, Major business-toconsumer (B2C) business models, Major business-to-business (B2B) business models, Business models in emerging E-commerce areas, How the internet and the Web change business.

The objective of the BCA project work is to develop a quality software solution by following the software engineering principles and practices. During the development of the project the students should involve in all the stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC). The main objective of this project course is to provide learners a platform to demonstrate their practical and theoretical skills gained during five semesters of study in BCA Programme. During project development students are expected to define a project problem, do requirements analysis, systems design, software development, apply testing strategies and do documentation with an overall emphasis on the development of a robust, efficient and reliable software systems. The project development process has to be consistent and should follow standard.. For example database tables designed in the system should match with the E-R Diagram. SRS documents to be created as per IEEE standards.

Accounting Fundamentals: Basic Concepts of Accounting,The Accounting Process; Cash Book and Bank Reconciliation; Other Subsidiary Books Bills of Exchange; Final Accounts.

Concepts Relating to Final Accounts: Final Accounts – I; Final Accounts – II; Errors and their Rectification.

Consignment and Joint Ventures: Consignments Accounts – I; Consignments Accounts – II; Consignments Accounts – III; Joint Venture Accounts.