Asansol Girls' College
Department of Computer Science and Application
Certificate Course on Trending Computer Technologies
Course Type: Certificate Course
Certificate Issuing Authority: Asansol Girls' College, Asansol, West Bengal.
Course Organizer: Department of Computer Science and Application, Asansol Girls' College, Asansol, Under the Aegis of IQAC, Asansol Girls' College, Asansol
Course Overview
- Target Audience: UG level students of Asansol Girls' College.
- Pre-Requisites: Basic reading, writing, speaking ability.
- Duration: 12 Weeks
- Course Exams: Regular assignments and final exam at the end of the course.
- Course Instructors: Dr Pradip Ghanty, Subhasis Ghosh, Sunita Kundu, Paromita Ray, Subhadip Gangopadhyay and the Faculty members of BCA and Computer Science departments, Asansol Girls' College, Asansol, West Bengal.
- Course Outcome: The course aims to create awareness on the basics of computer technologies especially to the students who do not have computers as a paper in their UG curriculum. Since the present era is an era of artificial intelligence, the fundamental idea of artificial intelligence in this course will make them aware of the modern technological trends and will grow their interest in this field which will help them to acquire further knowledge in the future. After completing the course students will have the preliminary idea of designing a web page.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Computer System
Duration: 3 hours (3T + 0L)
- 1.1. Basic Concept
- 1.2. Computer organization
- 1.3. I/O devices
2. Introduction to Software
Duration: 5 hours (3T + 2L)
- 2.1. Definition and classification
- 2.2. Basic concepts of Operating System
- 2.3. Windows OS
3. Google Office
Duration: 6 hours (3T + 3L)
- 3.1. Google Word Processor: Docs
- 3.2. Google Spreadsheet: Sheets
- 3.3. Google Presentation: Slides
4. Basic Concept of Artificial Intelligence
Duration: 2 hours (2T + 0L)
- 4.1. Introduction to AI
- 4.2. Applications of AI
5. Basic Concept of Web Page Designing Using HTML
Duration: 8 hours (4T + 4L)
- 5.1. Basic structure of web page
- 5.2. Text formatting
- 5.3. Lists, images, tables
- 5.4. Designing forms
6. Project work and Viva-voce
Duration: 6 hours
Detailed Syllabus
Unit I: Introduction to Computer System
- Computer definition - Characteristics of Computers, evolution, classification.
- Basic computer organization: Input, Output, Storage units, CPU, Computer System.
- Cache, Primary memory, RAM, ROM.
- Secondary Storage Devices: Floppy and Hard Disks, Optical Disks CD-ROM, DVD, Mass Storage Devices: USB thumb drive.
- Input Devices - Keyboard, Mouse, joystick, Scanner, web cam.
- Output Devices- Monitors, Printers – Dot matrix, inkjet, laser.
Unit II: Introduction to Software
- Definition of software, Classification of software, Operating System, Different types of OS, The User Interface.
- Introduction of windows OS, The My Computer, The Recycle Bin, Status Bar, Start and Menu & Menu-selection, Running an Application, Windows Explorer, Viewing of File, Folders and Directories, Creating and Renaming of files and folders, Opening and closing of different Windows.
Unit III: Google Office
Docs:
- Creating Documents, opening and uploading existing documents, Document interface overview, cut, copy, paste concepts, page setup, saving documents, text formatting, paragraph formatting, using the ruler, working with tabs and indents, working with lists, headers and footers, importing images, adding hyperlinks, working with drawings, inserting and customizing table properties, spelling checker, find and replace, AutoCorrect, printing.
Sheets:
- Spreadsheet Concepts, Creating, Saving and Editing a Workbook, Inserting, Deleting Work Sheets, entering data in a cell, formatting data. Working with formulas and functions, conditional formatting and data validation. Working with charts, sorting and filtering data, pivot table, print options.
Slides:
- Creating, Opening and Saving Presentations, Working in Different Views, Working with Slides, Adding and Formatting Text, Formatting Paragraphs, Drawing and Working with Objects, Shapes, Grouping / Aligning Objects, Slide Backgrounds, Inserting a YouTube Video, Designing Slide Shows, Slide Transitions, Animating Text, Shapes and Images, Making Notes Pages and Handouts, Printing, Presenting the Presentation.
Unit IV: Basic Concept of Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction–Definition –– Characteristics of Intelligent Agents–Typical Intelligent Agents – Problem Solving Approach to Typical AI problems, Future of Artificial Intelligence.
- Applications of AI – Language Models – Information Retrieval- Information Extraction – Natural Language Processing – Machine Translation – Speech Recognition – Robot – Hardware –Perception – Planning – Moving.
Unit V: Basic Concept of Web Page Designing Using HTML
- Acquaintance with elements, Tags and basic structure of HTML files. Practicing basic and advanced text formatting.
- Practicing use of multimedia components (Image, Video & Sound) in HTML document.
- Designing of webpage-Document Layout.
- Designing of webpage-Working with List.
- Designing of webpage-Working with Tables.
- Practicing Hyper linking of webpages.
- Designing of webpage-Working with Frames.
- Designing of webpage-Working with Forms and Controls.
Reference Materials
Recommended Books:
- Fundamentals of Computers – U. Rajaraman
- Computers Fundamentals – P. K. Sinha and Preeti Sinha
- Intro. To A.I. & E.S. by D.W.Patterson, PHI
- Principle of A.I. by N.J.Nilson, Narosa
- Learn HTML for Beginners, by Jo Foster, Elluminet Press