Fundamentals of Computer Science (Code-17010103)

Functions of the Different Units; Input unit, Output unit, Memory unit, CPU (ALU+CU). Input & Output Devices, Input Devices: Keyboard, Point and draw devices mouse, joystick, track ball, light pen, Data Scanning devices, image scanner, OCR, OMR, MICR, Bar code reader, card reader) Voice Recognition Device Digitizers Output Devices: Monitor Printer laser printer, dot-matrix printer, ink jet printer

Project, pendrive. Memories [Memory hierarchy] Registers ; [Types of Registers] Cache Memory. Primary Memory RAM,DRAM and SRAM ROMROM BIOS/ Firmware Types of ROM Secondary Memories Hard disk Structure of a hard disk, how data is stored in a hard disk,  sectors, clusters, cylinders formatting of hard disk (low level formatting and high level formatting)

Floopy [data storage mechanism]CD [data storage mechanism, Software, System Software

Operating System Functions of O/S. Types of O/S. Program Language Translator,s Assembler, Compiler Interpreter Utility Programs Communication Software Performance Monitoring Software, Application Software,, Languages Machine language, Assembly language ,High level language

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MS Office

i) MIcrosoft Word

ii) Microsoft Excel

iii) Microsoft Powerpoint

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1.Peter Nortons. 2001. Introduction to Computers – Fourth Edition. Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.

2. P.K. Sinha 2009. Computer Fundamentals-Third Edition. BPB publication

3. Capron.H.L. 1996. Computers – Tools for an information age – Fourth Edition. The Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., New York