FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 
SYLLABUS

UNIT I:
A Simple Computer System: Central processing unit, the further need of secondary storage, Types of memory, Hardware, Software and people.
Peripheral Devices: Input, Output and storage, Data Preparation, Factors affecting input, Input devices, Output devices, Secondary devices, Communication between the CPU and Input/ Output devices. (Text Book 1)
UNIT II:
Problem Solving and Programming: Algorithm development, Flowcharts, Looping, some programming features, Pseudo code, the one-zero game, some structured programming concepts, documents.
Programming Languages: Machine Language and assembly language, high -level and low level languages, Assemblers, Compilers, and Interpreters (Text Book 1)
UNIT III:
Computer Networks : Introduction to computer Networks, Network topologies-Bus topology, star topology, Ring topology, Mesh topology, Hybrid topology, Types of Networks: Local area Network, Wide Area Networks, Metropolitan Networks, Campus/ Corporate Area Network, Personal Area Network, Network Devices- Hub, Repeater, Switch, Bridge, Router, Gateway, Network interface Card, Open System Inter connection Model (Text Book 2)
Operating systems: Introduction, Evolution of operating systems, Process Management- Process control block, Process operations, Process scheduling, Command Interpreter, Popular operating systems- Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux. (Text Book 2)
UNIT IV:
Database Systems: File-Oriented Approach, Database-oriented Approach-Components of Database system, Advantages & Disadvantages of Database approach, Applications of Database systems, Database views, Three-schema architecture, Database models-Hierarchical model, Network Model, relational Model, Object-oriented Data Model, Components of database management systems, Retrieving Data through Queries (Text Book 2)
Computer Systems and Development: Investigation, Analysis, Design, system processing and general program design, Presentation to management and users, Implementation, Documents. (Text Book 1)
UNIT V:
Emerging Computer Technologies: Distributed Networking, Peer-to-peer Computing, Categorization of Peer-to-peer system Applications of Peer-to-peer networks, Grid Computing-components of Grid computing, Applications of Grid computing,, Cloud Computing-characteristics of cloud computing systems, cloud computing services, cloud computing architecture, cloud computing applications, Cloud computing concerns
Wireless Networks: Wireless network operations, Types of wireless networks, security in wireless Networks, Limitations of wireless Networks, Bluetooth – Bluetooth Piconets, Avoiding Interference in Bluetooth Devices, Bluetooth Security, Differences between Bluetooth and Wireless Networks. (Text Book 2)
TEXT BOOKS:
1. An Introduction to Computer studies –Noel Kalicharan-Cambridge
2. Fundamentals of Computers –Reema Thareja-Oxford higher education
REFERENCES:
1. Introduction to Information Technology – ITL education Solution Limited, Pearson
2. Computer Science and overview-J. Glenn Brookshear, Dennis Brylow-Pearson