MCA Curriculum

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Regulations and Curriculum (Effective from the Batch Admitted in the Academic Year 2008-2009)

PG DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

SACRED HEART COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), TIRUPATTUR

VELLORE DT, TAMILNADU.

MCA Curriculum 2008 CBCS Batch 2nd Revision Page 1

1. Programme Objectives

The broad objective of MCA programme is to prepare graduate students for productive careers in

software industry and academia by providing an outstanding environment for teaching and research in

the core and selected areas of the discipline. The programme aims to prepare the students for the

industry by imparting the required technical and soft skills along with knowledge in fundamentals of

computing and applications. Special thrust is given to industrial experience by exposing the students to

industrial practices with real-time software projects.

The first semester aims at imparting basics of computing with proficiency in a programming language.

From the second semester, the students are asked to select an area of specialization and develop their

technical expertise along with software engineering practices. Technical knowledge and skills are

imparted by participating in project works, paper works, field works and workshops along with regular

lecture, tutorial and practical sessions.

2. Eligibility for Admission

Candidates who have passed the under mentioned degree examinations in any recognized institution or

as equivalent thereto, provided they have undergone the programmes under 10+2+3 pattern.

a. B.C.A/B.E.S./B.Sc. in Computer Science /Mathematics/Physics/Statistics/Applied Sciences with

Mathematics as one of the subjects at the Higher Secondary level (i.e., in +2 level of the 10+2 pattern)

OR

b. B.Com. /Bachelor of Bank Management / B.B.A. / B.L.M. / B.A. Corporate Secretaryship / B.A.

Economics / Any other Bachelor‘s Degree in any discipline with Business Mathematics and Statistics or

Mathematics / Statistics in main/allied level OR

c. B.E./B.Tech or M.B.A

3. Duration of the Programme

To fulfill the requirements for acquiring MCA, a student may clear all the courses in a minimum of three

years and a maximum of 6 years.

4. Medium of Instruction

The medium of instruction is only in English.

5. Credit System

The College follows the ‗Credit System‘ for its programmes. Each credit is worth 30 hours of student

study time, comprising all learning activities. Thus, a four-credit course involves 120 study hours. This

helps the student to understand the academic effort one has to put into successfully complete a course.

6. Recognition

The program is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and

affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The University has granted autonomy to

Sacred Heart College to frame the curriculum, conduct the courses and evaluate the students as per the

need of the industries.


7. Program Structure

Sem Code Subject L T P O CA SEM MKS CD

1

MCA110T Problem Solving and Algorithms 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA111T Structured and Object Oriented Programming

3 2 - - 25 75 100 4

MCA112T Computer Organization 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA113T Business Processes 3 - 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA114T Numerical and Statistical Methods for Computing

3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA115P Programming Lab - - 8 - 40 60 100 4

MCA116W Communication Skills - - - 4 100 - 100 2

MCA117L Information Literacy I - - - 2 100 - 100 1

15 5 10 6 800 24

2

MCA210T Data Structures and its Applications 3 1 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA211T Internet Concepts and Web Design 3 1 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA212I Software Processes 2 - 2 2 25 75 100 4

MCA213T Mathematics for Computing 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA214# Technology Elective I 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA215P Technology Lab I - - 6 - 40 60 100 3

MCA216W Software Documentation - - - 4 100 - 100 2

MCA217L Information Literacy II - - - 2 100 - 100 1

14 4 12 8 800 24

3

MCA310T Operating Systems 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA311T Computer Networks 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA312T Data Base Systems 3 1 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA313T Software Engineering 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA314# Technology Elective II 3 1 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA315J Software Project I - - 6 - 40 60 100 4

MCA316W Quantitative Aptitude Development - - - 4 100 - 100 2

MCA317L Information Literacy III - - - 2 100 - 100 1

15 5 10 6 800 24

4

VE1001 Human Rights 2 - - - 25 75 100 2

MCA410T Object-Oriented Analysis and Design 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA411T Advanced Database Systems 3 1 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA412T Microprocessor and its Applications 3 - 2 - 25 75 100 3

MCA413# Technology Elective III 3 - 2 - 25 75 100 3

MCA455? Domain Elective I 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA414J Software Project II - - 4 - 40 60 100 4

MCA415W Industry Interface - - - 4 100 - 100 2

17 3 10 4 800 24

5

MCA510T Design and Analysis of Algorithms 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA511T Open Source Technologies 3 - 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA512T Computer Graphics 3 - 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA513# Technology Elective IV 3 1 2 - 25 75 100 4

MCA553? Domain Elective II 3 1 - - 25 75 100 3

MCA514J Software Project-III - - 6 2 40 60 100 4

MCA515W Soft Skills Development - - - 2 100 - 100 1

MCA516L Information Literacy V - - - 4 100 - 100 1

15 3 12 4 - - 800 24

6 MCA602J Software Project IV - - 30 - - 100 100 15

Total 76 20 84 28 4100 135


TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVES (#)

(Choose Stream A or B. 3 Listed Courses of the Stream will be dealt in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5thSemesters)

STREAM A :: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES

MCA214A Visual Programming using Visual Basic

MCA314A Window Applications using .NET

MCA413A Web Applications Using .NET

MCA513A Enterprise Applications using .NET

STREAM B :: JAVA TECHNOLOGIES

MCA214B Object Oriented Programming using Java

MCA314B Enterprise Java Programming

MCA413B Advanced Enterprise Java Programming

MCA513B Java Frameworks

DOMAIN ELECTIVE (?)

(Choose Stream A,B or C. One Course each will be conducted in 4th

and 5th

Semesters from the list below)

STREAM A :: SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN

MCA455A Linux and Network Programming

MCA553A Mobile Computing

STREAM B :: BUSINESS DOMAIN

MCA455B Accounting and Financial Management

MCA553B Electronic Commerce

STREAM C :: RESEARCH DOMAIN

MCA455C Research Domain–I

MCA553C Research Domain – II

7.1 CODING SCHEME

*Course Type : T–Theory, P–Practical, W–Workshop, J–Project, F–Field Work, L- Library

Work, I- Integrated Theory/Practical, A to E – Electives.

Note:

Courses based on Workshops and Fieldworks are organized by the Placement Cell and Consultancy

Cell during weekends and holidays.

For the courses, which are of the nature Field Work, Library Work or Workshop, grading shall be given

in each semester, instead of marking. However, the score sheet for each semester shall contain only

marks, computed by converting Grades.

The paper Software Process in II Semester is considered as an integrated paper of Theory cum

Practical with a practical examination at the end of the semester. Two continuous assessment tests are

conducted during the semester, along with the submission of mandatory reports

All Practical sessions shall have programming exercises in the first 6 weeks, for the remaining weeks

students shall be assigned a single project-based activity covering various techniques of the Technology

stream to which the student belongs.

MCA X XX X

Programme Code Semester Number 1-6

Course Serial Number

01-50 for Core Papers

51-99 for Domain Electives

Course Type*


MCA110T PROBLEM SOLVING AND ALGORITHMS 3-1-0-0:100

1. PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES

Steps Involved in Computer Programming – Problem Definition – Outlining The Solution – Flow Chart

– Developing Algorithms – Efficiency of Algorithms.

2. FUNDAMENTAL ALGORITHMS

Exchanging the Values – Counting – Summation of Set of Number – Factorial Computation – Sine

Computation – Fibonacci Sequence – Reversing the Digits of an Integer – Base Conversion – Character

to Number Conversion.

3. FACTORING METHODS

Finding the Square Root of a Number – Smallest Divisor of an Integer – GCD of Two Integers –

Generating Prime Numbers – Computing the Prime Factors of an Integer – Generation of Pseudo-

Random Numbers – Raising a Number to a Large Power – Computing the Nth Fibonacci Number.

4. ARRAY TECHNIQUES

Array Order Reversal – Array Counting Or Histogramming – Finding The Maximum Number In A Set

– Removal of Duplicates from an Ordered Array – Partitioning an Array – Finding The kth

Smallest

Element – Longest Monotone Subsequence.

5. MERGING, SORTING AND SEARCHING

Two-Way Merge - Sorting by Selection, Exchange, Insertion, Partitioning and Binary Search – Hash

Searching.

TEXTBOOKS

Unit I Ravi L, ―Lecture Notes: Programming Techniques‖, School of Computing, Sacred Heart College,

Tirupattur, 2007

Unit II -V Dromey R G, ―How to Solve it by Computer ‖, Prentice Hall of India, 1997

REFERENCES

Michael Schneider, Steven W. Weingart, David M. Perlman, ―An Introduction to Programming and

Problem Solving with Pascal‖, Wiley Eastern Limited, New Delhi, 1982.

Note : Every algorithm discussed in this course shall be implemented using structured paradigm of C++

programming language which is taught in the course MCA111T.


MCA111T STRUCTURED AND OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING` 3-2-0-0:100

1. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING – I

Programming Languages – Programming Paradigms - Background of C++ - First Program in C++ -

Structure of C++ Program - Data Types - Basic Data Types – User Defined Data Types– Expressions –

Tokens, Keywords and Identifiers – Constants and Variables - Operators– Statements – Assignment -

Input Output Objects – Manipulators -Control Structures – Selection Statement – Iteration Statements –

Arrays and Strings.

2. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING - II

Structures, Unions and Enumerations – Functions – Function Prototyping – Call by Value, Call by

Reference- Inline Functions- Recursion - Pointers - Default Arguments - Passing arrays to Functions –

Passing Structures to Functions – Function Overloading – Using Pointers as Function Arguments and

Parameters - File I/O – File Classes – File Operations – Random Access

3. CLASSES AND OBJECTS

Characteristics of Object Orient Programming - Classes and Objects – Data Members - Member

Functions - Constructors and Destructors – Friend Functions – Friend Classes – Static Class Members –

Object Pointers.

4. INHERITANCES AND POLYMORPHISM

Operator Overloading – Inheritance – Protected Members – Inheriting Multiple Base Classes – Virtual

Base Classes – Polymorphism – Virtual Functions – Virtual Base Classes – Dynamic versus Static

Binding.

5. TEMPLATES AND EXCEPTION HANDLING

Templates – Generic Functions – Applying Generic Functions – Generic Classes - Exception handling –

Standard Template Library – Container Classes – Lists – Maps – Algorithms – String.

TEXTBOOK

Balagurusamy E, ―Object Oriented Programming with C++‖, Tata McGraw Hill, 2006.

REFERENCES

Andrew C. Staugaard JR, ―Structured and Object-Oriented Problem Solving Using C++‖, Third Edition,

Prentice Hall, 2002

Herbert Schildt, ―C++: The Complete Reference‖, Third Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 1999

Yashavant Kanethkar, ―Let us C++‖, BPB Publications, 1999.

Bruce Eckel, ―Thinking in C++‖, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2001.


MCA112T COMPUTER ORGANIZATION 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL DESIGN

Data Representation – Data Types – Complements – Representations - Fixed Point, Integer, Floating

Point, Decimal Point – Arithmetic Addition, Subtraction - Binary Codes- Logic Gates, Boolean Algebra,

Map Simplification – Combinational Circuits: Half-Adder, Full Adder- Flip Flops - Sequential Circuits.

2. DIGITAL COMPONENTS - REGISTER TRANSFER & MICRO OPERATIONS

ICs – Decoders – Multiplexers – Registers – Shift Registers – Binary Counters – Memory Unit –

Register Transfer Language – Register Transfer – Bus and Memory Transfers – Arithmetic, Logic and

Shift Micro Operations- Arithmetic Logic Shift Unit.

3. COMPUTER ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMMING

Instruction Codes – Computer Registers – Computer Instructions – Timing And Control – Instruction

Cycle – Memory Reference Instructions – I/O And Interrupt – Machine Language – Assembly

Language – Assembler - Program Loops – Programming Arithmetic And Logic Operations –

Subroutines – I/O Programming.

4. INPUT – OUTPUT ORGANIZATION

Peripheral Devices – Input-Output Interface – Asynchronous Data Transfer – Modes of Transfer –

Priority Interrupt – DMA – IOP – Serial Communication.

5. MEMORY ORGANIZATIONS AND CPU

Memory Hierarchy – Main Memory – Auxiliary Memory – Associative Memory – Cache Memory –

Virtual Memory – Memory Management Hardware – CPU: General Register Organization – Control

Word – Stack Organization – Instruction Format – Addressing Modes – Data Transfer and Manipulation

– Program Control.

TEXTBOOK

Morris M Mano, ―Computer System Architecture‖, Prentice Hall of India, 3rd

Edition, 2004.

REFERENCES

John. P. Hayes, ―Computer Architecture and Organization‖, Tata McGraw Hill, 1996

Hamacher V C , ―Computer Organization‖, Tata McGraw Hill,1996


MCA113T BUSINESS PROCESSES 3-0-2-0:100

1. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Types of Business Organizations - Organizational Structures – Definition – Complexity –Formalization

– Size – Technology – Culture - Forms and Outcomes - Explanations of Structures –Case Studies

2. ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES

Organizational Power and Power Outcomes - Leadership and Decision Making - Communication and

Organizational Change - Organizational Environments and Effects - Inter and Intra Organizational

Relationships - Organizational Effectiveness - Case Studies

3. BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)-Meaning – Types – Process - Impetrative for Survival -

Strategic Approach - Implementing Business Process Re-engineering - Methodology and Steps - Indian

Scenario of Implementing BPR - Case Studies

4. BPR AND IT INDUSTRY

BPR and Information Technology Process - People View and Perspectives - Empowering People

through IT - Managing Change in the Global Environment - BPR Re-discovering Indian Paradigm -

Need of Re-engineering - Case Studies

5. E-BUSINESS PROCESS

E-Business - E-business Vs. E-commerce – E-business Trends – E-Business Patterns – E-business

Design - Architecture - Application Areas (CRM, ERP, SCM and Selling) – Business Intelligence - Case

Studies

TEXTBOOKS

Unit I & II Richard H Hall and Pamela S. Tolbert, ―Organizations Structures, Processes and Outcomes‖,

Pearson Education, 2006

Unit III & IV Jayaraman M S , ―Business Process Re-engineering‖, Tata McGraw Hill Publications,

2001

Unit V Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson,―e-Business 2.0 Roadmap for Success‖,


REFERNCES

Gareth Jones, ―Organizational Theory, Design and Change‖, Pearson Education, 4th Edition, 2004

Dave Chaffey, ―E-business and E-Commerce‖ Pearson Education, 2nd Edition, 2003.


BUSINESS APPLICATIONS LAB

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM)

1. Contact Management

2. Lead Management

3. Self Service CRM

4. Survey Management

5. Contract Management

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP)

1. Inventory Control

2. Order Tracking

3. Customer Service

4. Finance

5. Human Resources

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM)

1. Customer Service Management

2. Demand Management

3. Order Fulfillment

4. Supplier relationship management

5. Returns Management

6. Product development and Commercialization

7. Manufacturing flow management/support

8. Performance Measurement

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (E-COM)

1. Funds Transfer

2. Goods Transfer

3. Services transfer

4. Data Transfer


MCA114T NUMERICAL AND STATISTICAL METHODS FOR COMPUTING 3-1-0-0:100

1. ALGEBRAIC, TRANSCENDENTAL & SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS

Bisection Method – Regula Falsi Method – Successive Approximation Method – Newton Raphson

Method – Secant Method. Solution to System of Equations – Direct Methods: Gauss Elimination

Method – Gauss Jordan Method – Crout‘s Method. Iterative Methods: Gauss Jacobi and Gauss Seidal

Method.

2. NUMERICAL DIFFERENTIATION, INTEGRATION

Interpolation, Differentiation and Integration – Difference Table – Newton‘s Forward and Backward

Interpolation – Lagrange‘s Interpolation – Differentiation Formulae – Trapezoidal and Simpon‘s Rule.

3. STATISTICAL MEASURES

Mean – Median – Mode – Standard Deviation – Variance – Correlation – Linear Regression –

Prediction Interval – Multiple Regression – Probability – Random Variables – Characteristics – Moment

Generation Function.

4. PROBABILITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Standard Distributions (Binomial, Poisson and Normal) – Chi-square – t and F distributions – Parato

Distribution – Integrating the Normal Distribution with Simpson‘s Rule – Integrating the Chi-square

Distribution with Simpson‘s Rule – Integrating t-Distribution with Simpson‘s Rule.

5. TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS

Tests For Normality: Large Sample Tests Based on Normal Distribution – Chi-Square Tests – Small

Sample Tests Based on t And F Distributions – ANOVA: One Way and Two Way Classifications.

TEXT BOOKS

Grewal B.S, ―Numerical Methods in Engineering and Science‖, Khanna Publishers, 6th

Edition, New

Delhi.

Gupta S.C and Kapoor V.K, ―Fundamentals of Applied Statistics‖, Sultan Chand and Sons, 3rd

Edition,

2003.


MCA115P PROGRAMMING LAB 0-0-8-0:100 1. Data types, Expressions, Control structures and I/O

2. Arrays

3. String Handling

4. Functions, Inline functions and default arguments

5. Function overloading

6. Pointers

7. Classes and Objects

8. Friend functions and friend classes

9. Static members

10. Operator Overloading

11. Inheritance

12. Virtual functions

13. Exception Handling

14. Files

15. Templates and STL

Note : Practical exercises should be in the ratio of 40% for Structured Programming and 60% for

Object-oriented programming.


MCA116W COMMUNICATION SKILLS 0-0-0-4:100

1. THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION

Communication - Process of Communication – Barriers to Communication – Types of Communication

– Written Vs. Oral Communication – Types of Face to Face Interactions – Characteristics and

Convention of Conversation – Conversational Problems of Second/ Foreign Language Users –

Conversation and Other Speech Events.

2. TELEPHONE TECHNIQUES, JOB APPLICATION AND INTERVIEWS

Commonly used Phrases in Telephone Conversation –Conference Calls -Writing and Leaving a

Message – Contracted Forms - Applying for a Job – Curriculum Vitae – Useful Words – Preparing for

an Interview - Listening – Speaking – Asking Questions.

3. GROUP DISCUSSIONS AND MANAGING ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

Types of Group Discussions - Success in a Group Discussion – Speaking - Ability to Influence and Lead

- The Role of a Manager – Leadership – Writing Reports.

4. MEETINGS

Successful Meeting – One to One Meetings – Opening, Middle and Close – Editing –Listening Criteria

for Successful Meeting –Reporting Verbs – Writing Memos - Stress according to Part of Speech -

Taking Notes – Preparing Minutes – Using the Passive Voice

5. PRESENTATION AND NEGATIATION SKILLS

Verbs Often Required in Presentations - Importance of Body Language in Presentation – Preparing an

Outline of a Presentation – Structure of a Presentation – Visual Aids – Ending the Presentation –

Podium Panic – Emphasizing the Important Words - Process of Negotiation – Effective Negotiations

Note: Workshops will be conducted using presentations based on industry training methods.


MCA210T DATA STRUCTURES AND ITS APPLICATIONS 3-1-2-0:100

1. ORDERED LIST AND POLYNOMIALS

Abstract Data Types – Arrays - Representation of Arrays - Operations on Arrays - Ordered List-

Polynomial Representation – Polynomial Addition – Polynomial Multiplication -Sparse Matrices.

2. LISTS, STACK AND QUEUE

Singly Linked Lists - Circular Linked Lists - Doubly Linked Lists - General Lists-Stacks – Queues -

Evaluation of Expressions-Multiple Stacks and Queues.

3. TREES

Trees - Binary Trees - Binary Tree Traversals - Binary Tree Representations - Binary Search Trees -

Threaded Binary Trees – Additional Binary Tree Operations- Heaps –Selection Trees- Set

Representation.

4. GRAPHS

Representations of Graphs - Graphs Implementation - Graph Traversals - Application of Graph

Traversals - Minimum Cost Spanning Trees - Shortest path Problems – Activity Networks.

5. HASHING AND ADVANCED TREES

Symbol Table – Static Hashing : Hash Tables – Hashing Functions – Overflow Handling - AVL Trees –

2-3 Trees - Red-Black Trees– B-Trees- Splay Trees.

TEXT BOOKS

Horwitz E, Sahni S and Mehta, ―Fundamentals of Data Structures in C++‖, Galgotia, 1999.

Gregory L. Heileman, ―Data Structures, Algorithms and Object Oriented Programming‖, McGraw Hill

International Edition, 1996.

REFERNCES

Robert Kruse & Clovis L. Tondo, ―Data Structures and Program Design in C‖, Prentice Hall, 2nd

Edition, 1991.

Weiss, ―Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C‖, Addison Wesley, 2nd

Edition, 1997.


MCA211T INTERNET CONCEPTS AND WEB DESIGN 3-1-2-0:100

1. INTERNET CONCEPTS

Internet Concepts – Domain Name Service – e-mail concepts – Sending & Receiving files by e-mail-

Online Chatting, Messaging and Conferencing Concepts – Usenet Newsgroup Concepts – World Wide

Web Concepts – Web Security: Privacy and Site – Blocking- Browsers : IE, Netscape, Opera – Web

Servers: IIS, Apache

2. HTML

Web Technologies – HTML - Structure of a Page – Dynamic and Static Pages – Basic Document

Structure – Attribute Groups – Text Formatting – Presentational, Phrase Elements – Lists - Editing Text

- Character Entities for Special Characters – Links and Navigation - Links – Directories and Directory

Structures – Creating Links– Colors, Images and Objects – Using Images as Links – Tables – Basic

Table Elements and Attributes –Advanced Tables – Accessibility issues with Tables.

3. ADVANCED HTML

Forms – Form Controls – Label - structuring forms – Focus- Frames – The Frameset, Frame No-frames

elements – Creating Links between Frames – Nested Framesets- Depreciated and Browser Specific

Mark up – Fonts- Backgrounds – Formatting – Links – Lists – Tables- Miscellaneous Attributes –

Cascading Style Sheets – CSS – CSS properties – Text Formatting – Text Pseudo-Classes – Selectors –

Lengths - Percentages – More CSS – Backgrounds – Lists – Tables - Outlines- Positioning with CSS –

Page Layout – Design Issues.

4. SCRIPTING LANGUAGES

VB Script

Purpose - Client Side Script Vs Server Side Script - Program Structure – Data Types and Variables –

Procedures - Conditional – Looping – Functions – Constants – Events – Methods – Objects – Operators

–Statements - Validation Scripts - Error Handling and Debugging.

JavaScript

Learning Java script – Adding a Script to Web Page – Document object Model – Variables – Operators-

Functions – Conditional Statements – Looping – Built-in Objects: String, Date, Array, Boolean, Math –

JavaScript Validation – Cookies - Animation

5. DREAM WEAVER

Internet Environment – Dream Weaver Interface – Importing Graphics – Using Templates - Links –

Tables – Library - Frames – Functionality with Behaviors – Layers – Animation – Forms.

TEXTBOOKS

Unit I Margaret Levine Young, ― Internet-The Complete Reference‖, McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition.

(Chapters: 1,2,5,7,9,10,11,17 & 20)

Unit II & III Jon Ducket, ―Web Programming with HTML, CSS & JavaScript ―, Wiley Publishing,

2005.

Unit IV Matt Childs, et al ―VBScript in a Nutshell: A desktop Quick Reference ―, Shroff Publishers, 1st

Edition, 2000.

Unit V Julia Pryor Belinski, Charles F. Belinski, Scott J. Wilson, ―Dream Weaver 4 [Inside

Macromedia]‖, Onward Press, 2002.


WEB SOLUTIONS LAB

HTML

1. Creating HTML page and Run

2. Font tag, colors and images

3. Hyperlinks, Lists in HTML

4. Tables

5. Physical and Logical Tags

6. Forms Controls

7. Frames with tags

8. CSS

JAVA SCRIPT

1. Data types and variables, operators

2. Conditional Statements and Looping

3. Functions

4. Strings, Date and Time

5. Array and Math

6. Cookies

7. Debugging JavaScript

8. Handling Mouse Events

9. Develop Digital Clock & Calculator

10. Web Page with forms and Validations

11. Authentication and Verifications

12. Events Handling

VBSCRIPT

1. Basics of VBSCRIPT.

2. Data Types & Variables

3. Procedures, Conditional, Looping

4. Functions, Date, Time

5. Constants, Events, Methods, Objects, Operators

6. Validation

7. Error Handling

DREAM WEAVER

1. Basics of Dream weaver

2. Create Web Pages

3. Menus

4. Layers and Dynamic Layer.

5. Site Manager

6. Check-in – Check-out the pages using Site Manager

7. Tables, Images, Text Formatting

8. HTML Tags in Dream Weaver

Note: It is recommended that more focus is given to JavaScript than VBScript for application

development.


MCA212I SOFTWARE PROCESSES 2-0-2-2:100

1. INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Evolving Role of Software –Legacy Software –Software Myths - Generic View of Process: Software

Engineering - Layered technology – Process Framework – CMMI – Process Patterns – Process

Assessment – Personal and Team Process Models – Process Technology – Product and Process.

2. PERSONAL SOFTWARE STRATEGY

Personal Software Process Strategy - Logic for a Software Engineering Discipline – Software Process –

Process Maturity – Logic and Productivity of PSP - Baseline Process – PSP Process Elements – PSPO

Process, Measures and Project Plan Summary – Time and Defect Recording Log –Measurement

Overview – Fundamental Process Measures – Goal – Question - Metric Paradigm – General PSP

objectives, Goals and Questions – GQM example – Gathering data – Baseline for your Personal Process.

3. PLANNING PROCESS

Planning Process- Contents of a Software Plan – Planning a Software Project – Quality Plan -Measuring

Software Size - Size measures & framework – Counting standard – LOC counts and counters – Reuse

considerations – Line of code Accounting – Calculating Productivity –Estimating software size:

Background – Popular estimating methods – Proxy-based estimating – the PROBE size estimating

method – Object categories – Estimating considerations - Resource and schedule estimating: Resource

planning – Estimating development time – Combining multiple estimates – Using multiple regression –

Schedule Estimating – Earned value tracking – Estimating accuracy

4. SOFTWARE DESIGN AND QUALITY

Design and code reviews- Personal reviews – Reviews principles –Design review principles – Review

measures – Check lists –Relationship between reviews and inspections -Software Quality Management–

Economics of software quality–Developing a quality strategy–Process Benchmarking – Yield

Management – Defect removal strategies – Defect prevention strategies - Design process – Design

quality – Structuring design process–Design notation–Design Templates–Functional specification

template – State specification template – Logic specification template – Operational scenario template –

Using templates in design – Design Guidelines

5. SOFTWARE VERIFICATION

Design Verification– Design Standards – Verification Methods – Verifying the Object state machine –

Program tracing – Verifying program correctness – Comments on verification methods - Scaling up the

personal software process: Using abstractions –Stages of product size – Developing large-scale

programs – Potential problem with abstractions – Development strategy – PSP3 – Defining the software

process– Software process basics – Process definition – Defining process phases – Process development

considerations – Process evolution – Development Process.

TEXTBOOKS

Unit I Roger S Pressman, ―Software Engineering‖, Fourth Edition, McGraw Hill International Edition,

New Delhi, 1997

Units II - V Watts S. Humphrey, ―A Discipline for Software Engineering‖, Pearson Education, 2001


MCA213T MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTING 3-1-0-0:100

1. LOGIC

Statements – Connectives – Truth tables – Normal forms – Predicate calculus – Inference Theory for

Statement calculus and predicate calculus.

2. COMBINATORICS

Mathematical Induction – Pigeonhole principle – Principle of inclusion and exclusion.

3. RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS

Recurrence relation – Solution of recurrence relation using characteristic polynomial and using

generating function – Recursive functions – Primitive recursive functions, Computable and non

computable functions

4. ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES

Groups – Definition and examples only – Cyclic groups – Permutation group (Sn and Dn) – Subgroups

– Homomorphism and Isomorphism – Cossets – Lagrange‘s Theorem – Normal subgroups – Cayley‘s

representation theorem.

5. LATTICES

Partial order relations, Poset – Lattices, Hasse diagram – Boolean algebra

TEXT BOOKS

Unit I Tremblay J.P. and Manohar R., ―Discrete Mathematical Structures with applications to Computer

Science‖, McGraw Hill International Edition, 1987.

(Chapter 1, All sections excluding 1-2.5, 1-2.12, 1-2.13, 1-2.15, 1-3.6, 1-4.4)

Unit II Kenneth H. Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 4th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill,

2002.

(Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, Chapter 4 , Section 4.2)

Unit III Venkataraman M K, ―Discrete Mathematics‖, National Publishing Co., 2000,

(Chapter 5, Sections 5.1-5.7)

Unit IV Sundaresan V, Ganapathy Subramanian K.S & Ganesan K, ―Discrete Mathematics‖, New

Revised Edition, 2001.

(Chapter 4, Section 4.3)

Unit V Alan Doerr and Kenneth Levasseur, ―Applied Discrete Structures for Computer Science‖,

Galgotia Publications (P) Ltd., 1992.

(Chapter 13, Sections 13.1-13.3)


MCA214A TE I: VISUAL PROGRAMMING USING VISUAL BASIC 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION

Starting and Exiting VB - Using Project Explorer- Forms- Properties Window - Using Toolbox -

Projects - Printing projects - Building and running applications - Adding code and using events- Naming

Conventions - Using variables - Scope - Subroutines and functions - VB Controls - Label, Text box,

Command button, Frame, Check box, Option button, List box, Combo box, Drive list box, File list box,

Formatting controls, Control arrays and Tab order.

2. STRINGS AND DIALOG BOXES

Strings, Numbers - Math Functions - Random numbers using control statements - Selection and Iteration

Statements - Dialogue boxes – Message Box function - Input box function -Common dialogue control -

Print dialogue boxes and Show Help method

3. MENUS AND GRAPHICS

Menus and Printing in VB Applications - Print form method - Printers collection- Printer object- VB

Graphics and Multimedia - Picture box and image controls - Drawing controls - Lines and shapes -

Multimedia control - An audio CD player - Playing video chips

4. OLE AND ACTIVEX

Objects and VB -OLE for outside objects: Linking and embedding - Using the OLE control - Saving

Object contents - Working with objects - Programming with objects - Collections - The object browser -

Traversing the object browser. ActiveX controls - Need for ActiveX - Adding ActiveX controls to a

project - ActiveX automation - Creating your own ActiveX controls: Designing the controls - Making

the ActiveX control

5. ODBC, REPORTS AND INTERNET CONTROLS

Database Connection - VB or Access - VB database universe form builders Abound, Master Detail

forms - ODBC, Crystal Reports -VBX and Engine -Custom Control properties -Adding Internet Access

- Internet Controls - Encapsulation controls - Internet Explorer Controls- ActiveX documents - HTML

and VB script - VB to Java - Internet application types

TEXT BOOK

Units I - III Scott Warner, "Teach yourself VB 6 ", Tata McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, 1999.

(Chapter 1-9)

Units III - V Greg Perry, ―SAMS Teach Yourself VB 6 in 21 Days‖, 1st edition, SAMS Publishing,

1998

(Chapter 14,16,17,19)

Unit V Karen Waterson "VB Database Programming", Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.

(Chapter 5, 7)

REFERENCES

Noel Jerke, ―Visual Basic 6-The Complete Reference‖, Tata McGraw Hill, 1999


MCA214B TE I: OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING USING JAVA 3-1-0-0:100

1. BASICS

OOP and Java - Objects and Classes, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Java Language, The

Primaries – Character Set, Tokens, Constants, Variables, Operators and Expressions, Library Methods,

Strings, I/O Streams, Formatting the Output values, Control Statements – If, Switch, While, Do-While-

for.

2. ARRAYS AND OO FEATURES

One, Two dimensional Arrays, Methods – General form, invoking, method overloading, recursion,

Classes and objects – General form, creation, constructors, constructor overloading, copy constructor,

‗this‘ keyword, Static members, finalize method, Inner class and anonymous classes, Inheritance –

inheriting, abstract classes and final classes, Interfaces – structure, implementation, interface

inheritance.

3. PACKAGES, APPLETS AND THREADING

Packages – Package Hierarchy, Import Statement, Hiding the Classes, Access Control Modifiers,

Applets – Life Cycle, Applet Class, Syntax of Applet Tag, Methods in Graphics Class, Threading – Life

Cycle, Creating and Running, Methods in Thread Class, Priority Thread, Synchronization, Dead Lock,

Inter Thread Communication, Applets Involving Threads.

4. AWT AND EXCEPTION HANDLING

Events, Listeners, Event Handling Methods, Inheritance of Control Classes, Labels, Button Control,

Check Box Control, Radio Button, Choice Control, List Control, Scroll Bars, Layouts and Panel,

Windows and Frames, Menus and Dialogs, Mouse Events and Listeners, Adapter Class and Inner Class,

Exception Handling – Default Exception – User Defined Exception Handling, Exception and Error

Classes, Catch Block Searching Pattern, Throw and Throws.

5. NETWORKING, JDBC AND FILES

Networks, Domain Names and Protocols, Layers in Network Communication, Ports, TCP, Server

Socket Class, Socket Class, UDP Approach, JDBC – Establishing Connection, Creating Tables, Enter

Data, Table Updation, Use Of Prepared Statement, Obtaining Metadata, Using Transactions, Files –

Creation, Reading/Writing Characters/Bytes/Primitive Data Types, Random Access Files.

TEXT BOOK

Muthu C, ―Programming in Java‖, Thompson Learning, 2004.

REFERENCES

Herbert Schildt, ―The Complete Reference – Java 2‖, 4th

Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.

Keyur Shah, ―Gateway to Java Programmer Sun Certification‖, Tata Mc Graw Hill 2002.

Balaguruswamy, ―Programming with JAVA‖, 2nd

Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 1999


MCA215P TECHNOLOGY LAB I 0-0-6-0:100

STREAM A : VISUAL PROGRAMMING USING VISUAL BASIC

1. Label, text box, command, option, radio, list box, combo box

2. Drive list box and directory list box and file list box

3. Control array

4. Common dialog control and dialog boxes

5. String handling

6. Menus

7. Printer object

8. Graphics and multimedia

9. OLE

10. Active X Controls

11. ADODC

12. ADODB

13. Reports

14. Internet controls

STREAM B : OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING USING JAVA

1. I/O Streams

2. Method Overloading and Overriding

3. Class and Objects

4. Static members

5. Inheritance and Interfaces

6. Packages

7. Applets

8. AWT 1 with controls, panels,

9. AWT 2 with menus and layouts

10. Inter thread communication and deadlock avoidance.

11. Exception Handling

12. Socket programming

13. JDBC

14. Files


MCA216W SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATOIN 0-0-0-4:100

1. INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

Understanding Task orientation –Principles of Software Documentation –Theory Behind Task

Orientation –Forms of Software Documentation –Processes of Software Documentation

2. FORMS OF SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

Writing to Teach (Tutorials) – Writing to Guide (Procedures) – Writing to Support (Reference)

3. PROCESS OF SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

Analyzing Your Users – Planning and Writing your Documents – Getting Useful Reviews – Conducting

Usability Tests – Editing and Fine Tuning

4. TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

Designing for Task Orientation – Laying out Pages and Screens – Getting the Language Right – Using

Graphics Effectively – Designing Indexes

5. SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION

Requirements Document - System Architecture – Description of Functionality and Interfaces - Program

Source Code Listings - Validation Documents - System Maintenance Guide.

6. USER DOCUMENTATION

Functional Description - Installation Document - Introductory Manual - Reference Manual - System

Administrator's Guide

7. CASE WORK

TEXT BOOK

Thomas T. Barker, "Writing Software Documentation, A Task-Oriented Approach", Second Edition,


Note: Workshops will be conducted using presentations based on industry training methods.


MCA310T OPERATING SYSTEM 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION

Definition of OS -Mainframe System-Desktop Systems-Multi processor System-Distributed-Clustered-

Real time Systems-Handheld Systems-Operating System Structure-System Components-Services-

System Calls-System Programs-System Design and Implementation. Case Study: History, Design

Principles and kernel Modules of Linux Systems.

2. PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Concepts-Process Scheduling-Operations on Processes-Co-operating Processes-Inter Process

Communication-CPU Scheduling-Scheduling Concepts-Criteria-Scheduling Algorithms-Multiprocessor

Scheduling-Real time Scheduling. Case Study: IPC and Process Scheduling in Linux System

3. PROCESS SYNCHRONIZATION

Critical Section-Synchronization Hardware-Semaphores-Problems of Synchronization-Critical Regions-

Monitors-Deadlocks-Characterization-Handling Deadlocks-Deadlock Prevention-Avoidance-Detection-

Deadlock Recovery. Case Study: Process Management in Linux System

4. MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Storage Hierarchy-Storage Management Strategies-Contiguous-Non Contiguous Storage Allocation-

Single User-Fixed Partition-Variable Partition-Swapping-Virtual Memory-Basic Concepts-Multilevel

Organization-Block Mapping-Paging-Segmentation-Page Replacement Methods-Locality-Working Sets.

Case Study:Memory Management in Linux System

5. I/O AND FILE SYSTEMS

Disk Scheduling-File Concepts-File System Structure-Access Methods-Directory Structure-Protection-

Directory Implementation-Allocation Methods-Free Space Management-Case Study: Linux System.

Case Study: File System in Linux System

TEXT BOOK

Silberschatz and Galvin, ―Operating System Concepts‖, 6th

Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004

REFERENCES

Milankovic M, ―Operating System Concepts and Design‖, 2nd

Edition, McGraw Hill, 1992

P.C.Bhatt, ―An Introduction to Operating Systems-Concepts and Practice‖, Prentice Hall Of India, 2004

H.M.Deitel, ―An Introduction to Operating Systems‖, 2nd

Edition, Pearson Education, 2002


MCA311T COMPUTER NETWORKS 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION Introduction to networks and communication media: Uses – network hardware – network software –

Reference models – example networks – network standardization – Physical Layer: Basis for data

communication – transmission media – wireless transmission – telephone systems – satellite

Communication.

2. DATA LINK LAYER

Data link layer: Data link layer design issues – Error detection and correction methods – Elementary

data link protocols – Sliding window protocols – Verification methods – Channel allocation – Multiple

access protocols – IEEE 302 standards.

3. NETWORK LAYER

Network layer: Network design issues – Routing algorithms – Congestion control algorithms –

Internetworking – Network layer in the internet.

4. TRANSPORT LAYER

Transport layer: Transport service – Transport protocols – Internet transport protocols UDP – TCP –

Performance issues.

5. APPLICATION LAYER

Application layer: Application layer design issues – Domain name system – Electronic mail –WWW –

multimedia – Other applications – Network security – Basic cryptography – DES-RSA.

TEXT BOOK

Andrews S.Tanenbaum, ―Computer Networks‖, 4th

Edition, Prentice Hall of India / Pearson Education,

2003.

REFERENCES

Behrouz Forouzan, ―Data communication and Networking‖, 2nd

Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2006

William Stallings, ―Data and Computer Communications‖, 2nd

Edition, Prentice Hall of India / Pearson

Education, 2006.

Kundu Sudakshina, ―Computer Networks‖, Prentice Hall Of India, 2006

ISRD Group, ―Data communication and Computer Networks‖, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.

Singh Brijendra, ―Data Communications and Computer Networks‖, 2nd

Edition, Prentice Hall of India,

2006.


MCA312T DATABASE SYSTEMS 3-1-2-0:100

1. RELATIONAL DATABASES

Relational Model – SQL – Advanced SQL – Other Relational languages.

2. DATABASE DESIGN

Database design and E-Resource Model – Relational Database Design – Application Design and

Development.

3. DATA STORAGE AND QUERYING

Storage and File Structure – Indexing and hashing – Query Processing – Query Optimization.

4. TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT

Transaction– Concurrency Control – Recovery System.

5. CASE STUDY : Oracle (Only the concepts that are covered in Units I to IV ).

TEXT BOOK

Abraham Silberschatz, henry F. Korth and S. Sudarshan, ―Database System Concepts‖, McGraw-Hill

International Edition, Fifth Edition, 2006. (Ch. 2-8, 11-17, 26-29)

(Only the portions that are relevant to the concepts covered in chapters 2-8 and 11-17 and

Appendix C).

REFERENCE

Fred Resource McFadden, Jeffery A Hoffer and Mary B. Prescott, ―Modern Database

Management‖, Addison Wesley, YYYY.

Elmasri and Navathe, ―Fundamentals of Databas Systems, Addison Welsey, YYYY.

Jefrey D.Ulman and Jenifer Widom, ―A First Course in Database Systems‖, Pearson

Education Asia,yyyy.

Bipin Clock Desai, ―An Introduction to Database Systems‖, Galgotia Publications Pvt.Limited, YYYY.

RDBMS LAB

SQL

1. Simple Queries using DDL, DML and DCL

2. SQL Aggregate Functions

3. SET Operations

4. Views and Snapshots

5. Multiple Tables and Nested Queries

PL/SQL

6. PL/SQL Block

7. Function and Procedure

8. Subprograms and Packages

9. Triggers

10. Cursors

FORMS AND REPORT

9. Designing Oracle Forms using Menus and buttons

10. Developing Oracle Reports


MCA313T SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Basic Concept about Software Engineering, Professional and ethical responsibility – Sociotechnical

Systems - Software Processes - Process activities - Rational Unified Process - Computer-aided software

engineering - Project Management - Risk management.

2. REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING AND ANALYSIS MODEL

Software Requirements: Functional and non-functional requirements - User requirements - System

requirements - Requirements Engineering Process - System Models: Context models - Behavioral

models - Data Models - Object models - Structured methods.

3. DESIGN

Architectural Design - Reference architectures - Distributed Systems Architecture: Multiprocessor

architectures, Client-server architectures, Distributed object architectures - Application Architectures -

Object-oriented Design - Design evolution - User Interface Design.

4. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

Rapid Software Development - Agile methods, Extreme programming, Rapid application development,

and Software prototyping - Component-based Software Engineering - Verification and Validation -

Software Testing - Test case design, Test automation.

5. PEOPLE, QUALITY AND CONFIGURATION

Managing People - People Capability Maturity Model - Software Cost Estimation – Quality

Management - Quality assurance and standards- Quality planning- Quality control- Software

measurement and metrics - Configuration Management - CASE tools for configuration management.

TEXT BOOK

Ian Sommerville, ―Software Engineering‖, 8th Edition, Addison Wesley, 2007.

Unit I : Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Unit II : Ch. 6, 7, 8

Unit III: Ch. 11, 12, 13, 14, 16

Unit IV: Ch. 17, 19, 22, 23

Unit V : Ch. 25, 26, 27, 29

REFERENCE

Roger Pressman , ―Software Engineering A practitioner‘s Approach‖, Sixth Edition, McGraw- Hill

International Edition, 2005.


MCA314A TE II: WINDOWS APPLICATION USING .NET 3-1-2-0:100

1. INTRODUCING MICROSOFT .NET

Introduction – Common Language Runtime – Base Class Library – Assemblies – Garbage Collection –

Visual Studio– Integrated Development Environment – Types of .NET Applications – Data Types –

Variables – Constants – Type Conversion – Operators – Precedence – Punctuators – Expressions -

Control Statements- Creating Arrays – Creating Enumerations – Creating Structures – Creating

Collections – Methods.

2. OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

Object Oriented Programming – Basic Principles of Object Oriented Programming – Member Access

Modifiers - Defining a Class – Creating Objects – Constructors – Static Members – Inheritance –

Abstract Classes – Interfaces – Multiple Inheritance - Polymorphism – Operator Overloading

3. WINDOWS FORMS

Introduction – Working with Multiple Forms – Setting the Startup Form – Adding Controls – Setting

Properties – Showing and Hiding Controls – Creating a Message Box – Controls - Panel – Picture Box –

Progress Bar – Timer – Menus – Built in Dialog Boxes – Folder Browser – Open File – Save File – Font

– Color – Print – Tree View.

4. EVENTS, DELEGATES, THREADS, REMOTING AND REFLECTIONS

Events and Delegates – Using Delegate declarations and Instances – Declaring a delegate – Creating a

delegate instance – Using delegates – Enabling Notifications with Events – Declaring – Subscribing –

Unsubscribing – Calling – Threads – Constructing a simple Thread – Lock Construct – Class Monitor –

Dead Lock – Synchronization – Remoting - Reflections

5. ACCESSING DATA USING ADO.NET

DataBases – Basic SQL Statements – Working with ADO.NET – Overview of ADO.NET Objects –

DataGridView Control – Accessing Data Using Server Explorer – Creating a New Data Connection –

Accessing Data using Data Adapters and Datasets – Previewing Data from Data Adapters – Connecting

to an MS Jet Database – Data Binding – Simple Data Binding – Complex Data Binding – Implementing

Data Binding.

TEXTBOOKS

David S Platt, ―Introducing Microsoft .NET‖, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2006.

Richard Wiener, ―Modern Software Development Using C#.NET‖, Thomson, 2007.

REFERENCE

Vikas Gupta, ―.NET Programming Course Kit‖, DreamTech Press, New Delhi, 2008.

Microsoft ADO .Net Step by Step, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2006.

Jeffrey Richter , Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming,,Microsoft Press, 2002.

NOTE: PSP 1.0 shall be adhered to assess the performance of students in the practical lab


MCA314B TE II: ENTERPRISE JAVA PROGRAMMING 3-1-2-0:100

1. WEBIFYING APPLICATIONS

Evolution of Web Applications – CGI, Application Servers – Enterprise Edition – EJB, Servlets, JSP,

JDBC, JMS, Java Transaction Support, JNDI, Java Mail, IDL RMI, XML, J2EE Connector, JBoss

Server – Running Jboss server - Deploying an application on JBoss, Functional Architecture –Objects-

Tiers- Webifying Existing Applications – Multiple Clients – RMI – java.rmi.server package, Naming

Class, RMI Security Manager Class, RMI Exceptions, Creating RMI Client and Server Classes. Case

Study: Using ANT.

2. SERVLETS

Servlets – Life Cycle – Sharing Information – Initializing a Servlet – Writing Service Methods –

Filtering Request and Responses – Invoking other web resources – accessing the web context –

maintaining client state – finalizing a servlet

3. JAVA SERVER PAGES (JSP)

JSP Technology – JSP Page, Life Cycle, Creating Static Content, Dynamic Content, Expression

Language, Java Beans Components, Using Custom Tags, Reusing the Contents, Transferring Control to

another web component, Including an Applet, Setting Properties, Java Server Pages Documents –

Creating JSP Document

4. JAVA SERVER PAGES STANDARD TAG LIBRARY

Using JSTL, Core Tag library, XML Tag library, Internationalization Tag Library, SQL Tag Library,

Functions, Custom Tags in JSP Pages, Type of Tags, Encapsulating reusable content using tag files, Tag

library descriptors, Simple Tag handlers, JSP Scripting - Scriptlets.

5. INTEGRATING SERVLETS AND JSP: MVC ARCHITECTURE

Need for MVC Frameworks - MVC with request dispatcher –Beans to represent the data, Writing

Servlets to handle requests –Working with Beans-Summarizing the MVC code, interpreting relative

URL-Data sharing approaches- forwarding requests from JSP pages.

TEXTBOOKS

Unit I

Paco Gomez and Peter Zadrozny, ―Professional Java 2 Enterprise Edition with BAE

WebLogic Server‖, Wrox Press, 2001. (Ch. 1)

C. Muthu, ―Programming in Java‖ Thomson Learning, 2004. (Ch. 20)

Norman Richard and Sam Griffith Jr, ―Jboss – A Developer‘s NoteBook‖, O‘Reilly Media

(Ch. 1, 2)

Unit II, III & IV : Stephanie Bodoff etl., ―The J2EETM Tutorial‖, Pearson Education, 2005.(Ch

12, 13, 14, 15, 16)

Unit V : Marty Hall, Larry Brown, ‖Core Servlets and Java Server Pages‖, Second Edition,

Pearson Education,2004. (Ch. 15)

REFERENCE

Lame Pekowsky, ―Java Server Pages‖, Pearson Education, 2004.

Marty Hall, Larry Brown, ―Servlets and Java Server Pages‖, Pearson Education, 2005.

James McGovern etl., ―Java Web Services Architecture‖, Elsevier, 2005.

NOTE: PSP 1.0 shall be adhered to assess the performance of students in the practical lab.


MCA316W QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE DEVELOPMENT 0-0-0-4:100

1. NUMERICAL ABILITY

Numbers, HCF and LCM, Decimal fractions, simplification, square roots and cube roots.

2. NUMERICAL ABILITY (CONTINUED)

Averages, Problems on numbers, Problems on ages, Percentages, Profit and loss.

3. QUANTITATIVE ABILITY

Ratio and proportion, Partnership, Time and work, Pipes and cisterns, Time and distance.

4. QUANTITATIVE ABILITY (CONTINUED)

Problems on trains, Boats and streams, Simple interest, Compound interest, Races and games of skill

5. MATHEMATICAL ABILITY

Calendar, Clocks, Stocks and Shares, Permutation and Combination, Probability.

WORK BOOK

R.S.Aggarwal, ―Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations‖, Seventh Edition, S.Chand and

Co.Ltd, New Delhi, 2005.

REFERENCE

Barron, ―Guide for GMAT‖, Galgotia Publications, New Delhi, 2006.

B.S.Sijwali and Indu Sijwali, ―Reasoning Verbal & Non Verbal‖, Arihant Publications Pvt.Ltd, Meerut,

2008.

METHODOLOGY

Quantitative Aptitude Development course shall be conducted for 15 sessions with duration of one hour

for each session and 3 sessions for each unit. The examination components are divided into two namely,

Continuous Internal Assessment (CA) and Semester Examination.

The marks for each component are as follows.

There shall be five problem-solving sessions for each unit with maximum of 8 marks.

Problem Solving

CA

Question Paper Pattern for CA Examination

: 40 Marks

: 60 Marks

The examination shall be conducted by online and the question shall contain two parts, Section A and

Section B

Section A contains 30 questions, 6 questions from each unit. The candidate is expected to answer all the

questions. Each question carries 1 mark. All the questions are objective type.

Section B contains 15 questions, 3 questions from each unit and all the questions are objective type. The

candidate is expected to answer all the questions. Each question carries 2 marks.


VE1001 HUMAN RIGHTS 2-0-0-0:100

(Adopted from Thiruvalluvar University Curriculum)

UNIT-I

Definition of Human Rights-nature Content, Legitimacy and Priority-Theories on Human Rights-

Historical Development of Human Rights.

UNIT-II

International Human Rights- Prescription and Enforcement upto World War II – Human Rights and the

U.N.O. – Universal Declaration of Human Rights – International Covenant on Civil and political Rights

– international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Optional Protocol.

UNIT- III

Human Rights Declarations – U.N. Human Rights Declarations –U.N. Human Commissioner.

UNIT –IV

Amnesty international – Human Rights and Helsinki process – Regional Developments- European

Human Rights System- African Human Rights System- International Human Rights in Domestic Courts.

UNIT – V

Contemporary Issues on Human Rights: Children‘s Rights- Women‘s Rights- Dalit‘s Rights- Bonded

Labour and Wages- Refugees- Capital Punishment. Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution –

Directive Principles of State Policy – Fundamental Duties – National Human Rights Commission.

TEXTBOOK

Prof. T.S.Ravi, ―Human Rights‖, Margham Publications, First Publication,2009.

REFERENCE

Ms. S. Bharathi, ―Essential Human Rights‖, Ozone Books, 2008.


MCA410T OBJECT-ORIENED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 3-1-0-0:100

1. MODELING IN GENERAL

Object Oriented Development – Evidence for Usefulness of Object Oriented development - Modeling

Concepts: Modeling – Abstraction - The Three Models – Overview of Unified Modeling Language and

introduction to UML Diagrams.

2. CLASS MODELING

Class Modeling: Object and Class Concepts – Link and Association Concepts -Inheritance - Sample

Class Model - Navigation of Class Models - Advanced Class Modeling: Advanced Object & Class

Concepts - Association Ends -N-ary Associations – Aggregation – Abstract Classes - Multiple

Inheritance –Metadata – Reification – Constraints - Derived Data – Packages.

3. DYNAMIC MODELING

State Modeling: Events – States – Transitions & Conditions - State diagrams - State Diagram Behavior

- Advanced State Modeling: Nested State Diagrams - Nested States – Signal Generalization –

Concurrency - Sample State Model - Relation of Class & State Models - Interaction Modeling: Use

Case Models - Sequence Models - Activity Models – Advanced Interaction Modeling: Use Case

Relationships - Procedural Sequence Models – Special Constructs for Activity Models.

4. SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Process Overview: Development Stages - Development Life Cycle - System Conception: Devising a

System Concept - Elaborating a Concept- Preparing a problem Statement – Domain Analysis:

Overview of Analysis - Domain Class Model - Domain State Model – Domain Interaction Model -

Iterating the Analysis - Application Analysis: Application Interaction Model -Application Class Model

- State Model – Operations.

5. SYSTEM DESIGN

System Design: Overview of System Design - Estimating performance - Making a Reuse plan -

Breaking a System into Subsystems - Identifying Concurrency-Allocation of Subsystems - Management

of Data Storage - Handling Global Resources - Choosing a Software Control Strategy - Handling

Boundary Conditions -Setting Trade-off Priorities - Common Architectural Styles - Architecture of the

ATM System - Class Design: Bridging the Gap - Realizing Use Cases - Designing Algorithms -

Recursing Downward – Refactoring - Design Optimization - Reification of Behavior -Adjustment of

Inheritance – Organizing Class Design.

TEXT BOOK

Object-Oriented Modeling and Design with UML, Michael Blaha and James Rumbaugh,

Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2006.

REFERENCE

Object-oriented Systems Development using UML, Ali Bahrami, McGraw Hill, Boston,

1999.


MCA411T ADVANCED DATABASE SYSTEMS 3-1-2-0:100

1. OBJECT -BASED DATABASES AND XML

Object Based Databases and -XML

2. DATA MINING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Data Analysis and Mining-Information Retrieval

3. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Database-System Architectures-Parallel Databases-Distributed Databases

4. OTHER TOPICS

Advanced Application Development-Advanced Data Types and New Applications-Advanced

Transaction Processing

5. CASE STUDIES : Oracle (Only the concepts that are covered in Units I to IV)

TEXTBOOK

Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F.Korth and S.Sudarshan, Database System Concepts, Fifth Edition,

McGraw Hill International Edition, 2006. (Chapters 9, 10, 18-25, 26-29).

REFERENCE

Rajesh Narang, ―Object Oriented Interfaces and Databases‖, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited

Fred R.McFadden Jeffery A Hoffer and Mary B.Prescott, ―Modern Database Management‖, Addison

Wesley

Elmasri and Navathe, ―Fundamentals of database System‖, Addison Wesley

Jefrey D.Ulman and Jenifer Widom, ―A First Course in Database Systems‖, Pearson Education Asia

Bipin.C.Desai, ―An Introduction to Database Systems‖, Galgotia Publications Pvt Limited

C.S.R.Prabhu, ―Data Warehousing –Concepts, Techniques, Products and Applications‖, Prentice

Hall of India,Private Limited

C.S.R.Prabhu, ―Object Oriented Database Systems‖, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited


MCA412T MICROPROCESSOR AND ITS APPLICATIONS 3-0-2-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION

General Architecture of a Microcomputer System – Evolution of the Microprocessor Architecture –

8086 internal architecture – Software Model of the 8086 Microprocessor – Memory Address Space and

Data Organization – Segment Registers and Memory Organization – Instruction Pointer and Data

Registers – Generating a Memory Address.

2.PROGRAMMING IN 8086

8086 addressing modes – Converting Assembly Language Instructions to Machine Code - 8086

Instruction Set – Data Transfer Instructions – Arithmetic Instructions – Logic Instructions – Shift

Instructions – Rotate Instructions – Flag Control Instructions – Compare and Jump Instructions –

Subroutine-Handling, Loop-Handling and String-Handling Instructions.

3. 8086 BASED SYSTEM & INTERRUPTS

Minimum-mode and Maximum-Mode Systems – System Clock and Bus Cycles – Hardware

Organization of the Memory Address Space – Types of Interrupt – Interrupt Address Pointer Table –

Interrupt Instructions – External Hardware Interrupt Sequence – 8259A Programmable Interrupt

Controller – Software Interrupts – Non-Maskable Interrupt .

4. INTERFACING & APPLICATIONS

Keyboard/Display Controller – Software Programmable Timer/Counter – DMA data transfer –

Microcomputer based industrial process control system – Robotics & Embedded control – Digital signal

processing & Digital Filters.

5. CASE STUDY

Multi-user/Multi-tasking Operating system – 80286 microprocessor – Real Mode & Protected Mode

operation – 80386 microprocessor – 80386 modes – 386 Virtual 8086 mode – 80486 microprocessor –

Pentium microprocessors.

TEXT BOOK

UNIT I, II & III

Walter A. Triebel and Avatar Singh,‖The 8088 and 8086 Microprocessors‖, Prentice Hall of India,

2002.

UNIT IV & V

Douglas V. Hall, ―Microprocessors and Interfacing Programming and Hardware‖, Tata McGraw-Hill,

1999.

REFERENCE

Barry B. Brey, ―The Intel Microprocessors‖, Prentice Hall of India, 2002.

Ray A.K and Bhurchandi, ―Advance Microprocessors and Peripherals, Architecture Programming and

Interfacing‖, McGraw Hill International, 2000.

LAB EXERCISES

1. Addition and Subtraction

2. Multiplication and Division

3. Largest in an Array

4. Sorting and Searching

5. Computation of Factorial

6. Generation of Fibonacci Series

7. Computation of nCr

8. Computation of LCM and GCD

9. Clear the Screen

10. Moving string of characters on CRT


MCA413A TE-III: WEB APPLICATIONS USING .NET 3-0-2-0:100

1. INTRODUCING ASP.NET

Developing ASP.NET Applications - ASP.NET File Types - The bin Directory – Application Updates -

A Simple Application from Start to Finish -Behind the Scenes with HellowWorld.aspx - Code-Behind -

Web Form Inheritance Explained - Compiled Code-Behind Files – Compiling Multiple Files into One

Assembly - Importing Namespaces - Assembling Code-Behind – Three Ways to code Web Forms - The

Global.asax Code-Behind - Application Events – Understanding ASP.NET Classes - ASP.NET

Configuration - The Web.config File - Nested Configuration - Configuration file Section

2. WEB FORMS

Web Form Fundamentals - A Simple Page Applet - The Problem With Response.Write - Server

Controls - HTML Server Controls - ViewState - The HTML Control Classes – Events - Event Handling

Changes - The Currency Converter application-Adding Support for Multiple Currencies - Adding

Linked Images - Setting Styles – A Deeper Look at HTML control classes-HTML control events-The

HTML control Base class-The HtmContainerControl Class-The HtmlInputControl Class-The Page

class-The Controls collection-The HttpRequest Class-The HttpResponse Class-The ServerUtility Class-

Assessing HTML Server controls

3. WEB CONTROLS

Web Controls - Stepping Up to web Controls - Basic Web Control Classes - The web Control Tags -

The WebControl Base Class - Units Enumerated Values - Colors - Fonts – List Controls - Table

Controls - AutoPostBack and Web Control Events - How Postback Events Work - The Page Lifecycle -

The Greeting Card Applet - Validation and rich Controls- The Calendar Control-Formatting the

Calendar-restricting Dates- The AdRotator control-The Wizard control-Validation-The Validation

Controls -The Validation Process-The Validator Class-A Simple Validation Example –Sever side

example-Manual Validation-Understanding Regular Expressions-Literals and MetaCharacters-Finding a

Regular expression- A Validated Customer Form –other rich controls -.Data Bound Controls- Creating

Master Pages-Applying Themes and Skins.

4. DATA ACCESS AND XML

ADO.NET Data Access - About the ADO.NET Example - Obtaining the Sample Database - Simple

Data Access - Simple Data Update - Importing the Namespaces - Creating a Connection - The

Connection String SQL - Making the Connection - Defining the Select Command - Using a Command

with a DataReader - Updating Data - Using Update - Insert - and Delete Commands - Accessing

Disconnected Data - Selecting Disconnected Data - Selecting Multiple Tables - Modifying Disconnected

Data - Modifying and Deleting Rows - Adding Information - to a DataSet - Updating Disconnected Data

- The CommandBuilder - Updating a DataTable - Controlling Updates - An Update Example – Using

XML - XML‘s Hidden Role in .NET - XML Basics - Attributes - Comments - The XML Classes - the

XML TextWriter - The XML Text Reader - Working with XML Documents - Reading an XML

Document - Searching an XML Document - XML Validation – CreatingXML Schema –XSD

Documents - Validating an XML File.

5. CREATING AND USING WEB SERVICES

Web Service Basics - Web Service Ingredients - Web Service Description Language –SOAP Protocol-

UDDI- Web Service Data Types- Creating Web Services -The StockQuote Web Service – XML

Namespace - Testing Your Web Service - State Management in ASP.NET – ASP.NET Intrinsic objects

Application State, Session State,Cookie,QueryString- The StockQuote Service with State Management -

Transactions - Caching - Security - Security with SOAP Headers- Consuming a Web Service -

Configuring a Web Service Client in Visual Studio .NET – Creating a Web Reference in Visual Studio

.NET - The Proxy Class - Creating a Proxy with WSDL.exe - Using the Proxy Class - Waiting and

Timeouts - Connecting Through a Proxy - Using SOAP Headers -Crystal reports in ASP.NET


TEXT BOOKS

Mathew MacDonald, ―ASP.NET: The Complete Reference‖, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company

Ltd., New Delhi.

Dino Eesposito,―Introducing Microsoft ASP .NET 2.0‖, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi 2006.

REFERENCE

Stephen Walther,‖ ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed ―Second Edition Pearson Education 2005

WEB REFERENCE

www.asp.net

www.asp101.com

www.msdn.com


MCA413B TE-III: ADVANCED ENTERPRISE JAVA PROGRAMMING 3-0-2-0:100

1. XML TECHNOLOGY

XML benefits – advantages of XML over HTML – XML based standards – structuring XML document

using DTD – XML schemas – XML parsers – DOM – SAX – presentation technologies - XSL – XSLT-

XFORMS – XHTML – XLINK – XPATH – XQUERY

2. JAVA SERVER FACES (JSF)

JSP Benefits - Framework roles - Simple JSF application - User Interface Component Model -

Navigational Model - Life Cycle of JSF page, Using JSF in JSP Pages – Setting up a page - Using core

Tags - Using HTML Tags - Using localized messages - Using Standard Converters - Registering

Listeners on Components – Standard Validators - Referencing a backing Bean method - Using custom

objects, Writing component properties – Performing Localization - Creating custom Converter -

Implementing an Event Listener - Creating a Custom Validate, - Writing Backing Bean methods

3. ENTERPRISE JAVA BEANS (EJB)

Introduction to Enterprise Beans - Session Bean - Entity Bean - Message driven Bean – Life Cycle of

Enterprise Bean, Creation of Enterprise Bean, Creation of session Bean – Handling Exceptions, Bean

Managed Persistence, Container Managed Persistence –Message Driven Bean Example – Enterprise

Java beans Query Language, Transactions - Container- Managed Transactions, Bean Managed

Transactions – Resource Connections.

4. JAVA MESSAGE SERVICE API

Basic JMS API concepts – JMS API programming model – JMS client applications, Creating robust

JMS applications, Using JMS API in J2EE application.

5. WEB SERVICES BUILDING BLOCKS

Transport protocols for web services – XML –RPC - Header – data type – request and response message

format - SOAP - specification – message format – SOAP header – returning errors – data types – remote

method call – describing web services – requirements for web services – WSDL goals – anatomy of

WSDL – web services policy – anatomy of UDDI.

TEXT BOOK

Unit I

Frank. P.Colyle,‖XML, Web Services and The Data Revolution‖, Second Edition, Pearson Education,

2002.

Unit II, III & IV

Stephaniew Bodoff Etl,‖The J2EETM Tutorial‖,Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2005.

Unit II (Ch 17, 18, 19)

Unit III (Ch 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,31)

Unit IV (Ch 33)

PG-CS Page: 23 of 65

Unit V

Sandeep Chatterjee, James Webber,‖Developing Enterprise Web Services‖, Pearson Education, 2004.

REFERENCE

James Mcgovern Etl.,‖Java Web Services Architecture‖, Elsiver, 2005.

Lame Pekowsky,‖Java Server Pages‖, Pearson Education, 2004.

Paco Gomez And Peter Zadrozny,‖Professional Java 2 Enterprise Edition with BAE Web Logic Server‖,

Wrox Press, 2001.

Ramesh Nagappan, Robert Skoczylas And Rima Patel Sriganesh, ―Developing Java Web Services‖,

Wiley Publishing Inc., 2004.


MCA455A DE I: LINUX AND NETWORK PROGRAMMING 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION & FILE SYSTEM

Overview of UNIX OS - File I/O – File Descriptors – File sharing - Files and directories – File types –

File access permissions – File systems – Symbolic links - Standard I/O library – Streams and file objects

– Buffering - System data files and information - Password file – Group file – Login accounting –

system identification.

2. PROCESSES

Environment of a UNIX process – Process termination – command line arguments – Process control –

Process identifiers - Process relationships terminal logins – Signals -threads.

3. INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION

Introduction - Message passing (SVR4)- pipes – FIFO – message queues – Synchronization (SVR4) –

Mutexes – condition variables – read – write locks – file locking – record locking – semaphores –Shared

memory(SVR4).

4. SOCKETS

Introduction – transport layer – socket introduction - TCP sockets – UDP sockets – raw sockets – Socket

options - I/O multiplexing - Name and address conversions.

5. APPLICATIONS

Debugging techniques - TCP echo client server - UDP echo client server - Ping - Trace route - Client

server applications like file transfer and chat.

TEXT BOOK

W. Richard Stevens, ―Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment‖, Addison Wesley, 1999.

W. Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew Rudoff ―Unix Network Programming‖, Volume 1, The Sockets

Networking API, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.

REFERENCE

Meeta Gandhi, Tilak Shetty and Rajiv Shah, ―The ‗C‘ Odyssey Unix –The open Boundless C‖, First

Edition, BPB Publications, 1992.


MCA455B DE I: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE MANAGEMENT 3-1-0-0:100

1. PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING

Introduction – Accounting Concepts and Convention – Principles of Double Entry – Journals – Ledgers

– Trail Balance.

2. FINAL ACCOUNT

Final Accounts – Trading Accounting – Profit and Loss Accounting – Balance Sheet – (Simple

Adjustments only).

3. DEPRECIATION

Depreciation – Meaning – Causes – Objectives – Methods – Straight Line Methods – Diminishing

Balanced Methods.

4. NATURE AND SCOPE OF COST ACCOUNTING

Cost Accounting: Nature and Scope – Objectives, advantages and Limitations – Financial Accounting

Vs. Cost Accounting. Costing System: Types of Costing and Cost classification – Cost Sheet and

Tenders.

5. BUDGETING

Budget and Budget Control – Meaning – Objectives – Uses and Limitations – Essentials of a Successful

Budgetary Control – Preparation of Sales – Production – Cash and Flexible Budgets.

TEXT BOOK

Reddy and Murthy, ― Financial Accounting‖, Margham Publication,YYYY.

Reddy and Murthy, ―Cost and Management Accounting‖, Margham Publication.YYYY.

REFERENCE

Gupta R.L & M. Radhaswamy, ―Advanced Accounts (Vol.II)‖, New Delhi, Sultan Chand Sons, 1991.

Man Mohan & S.N. Goyal, ―Principles of Managements Accounting‖, Agra, Sahithya Bhawan 1987.

Hingoram, N.I. & Ramanathan, A.R. ―management Accounting‖, Sultan Chand, New Delhi, Second

Edition,1982 .


MCA415W INDUSTRY INTERFACE 0-0-0-4:100

1. Submission of the Profile of the Organization

Students are expected to submit the profile of the perspective Organization in which the fieldwork will

be done. Students may take an introduction letter from the Department to introduce the objective of

Industry Interface.

Preferred Organization must be a registered one as a Company, Trust, service sector or government

sector, having at least 50 employees and three years of market existence. There should be a well-defined

existing business process, which needs to be computerized or improved upon.

2. Approval of the Selection of the Organization

Based on the submitted profile, the Department shall approve the Industry Interface Site.

3. Sign-Off from the Organization

Students must explain to the selected Organization what they are going to do during the course of their

visits and should get the sign-off from the company based on the terms and conditions of the visit and

deliverables.

4. Technical visits

Students should study the following aspects during their each visits and submit the report to the

department

Visit 1 - Organizational system and Core business

Visit 2 - Business process (in IEEE Format)

Visit 3 - Subsystem I

Visit 4 - Subsystem II

Visit 5 - Subsystem III

Each visit should take place on a different day. Recording the details of each visit is a

must for the students. And the students should get the required acknowledgement

from the Industry Interface Representatives and submit the same to the Placement

Office.

5. Final report

To make this visit really successful, students should make sure that they are proposing a software

solution to the existing problem in the organization they visit. Based on this, final report should be

prepared by the students.

6. Presentation of the Final Report

Each student shall make a presentation (for 10 minutes) based on their reports given and explain the

proposed solution. Clarifications shall be held for each presentation for at least 2 minutes. This

resentation will be done in three groups of 20 students each.

Evaluation Scheme

5 Reports x 10 = 50

Final Report = 20

Presentation of Report = 10

Company‘s Assessment = 20 Total Marks = 100


MCA 510T DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS 3-1-0-0:100

1. ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS

Models of Computation – Algorithm and their Complexity – Random Access Machines –

Computational Complexity of RAM Machines – A Stored Program Model – Abstractions of the RAM –

Turing Machine – Mathematical Foundations – Growth of Functions – Summations – Recurrences.

2. DIVIDE AND CONQUER AND GREEDY METHOD

Divide and Conquer – Multiplication of two n Bit Numbers – Strassens‘ Matrix Multiplication – Greedy

Method – Knapsack Problem – Huffman Code – Traveling Salesperson.

3.DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING AND BACKTRACKING

Dynamic Programming – Chain Matrix Multiplication – Traveling Salesperson – 0/1 Knapsack -

Backtracking - Four Queens Problem – Sum of Subsets – Knapsack- Generations of all Clique of a

Graph.

4. APPROXIMATION AND RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS

Approximation Algorithms – Planar Graph Coloring – Job Scheduling – Bin Packing – Randomized

Algorithms – Numerical Integration – Primality Testing – Majority Element.

5. BRANCH AND BOUND AND LOWER BOUND THEORY

Branch and Bound Technique – Assignment Problem – Lower Bound Techniques – Comparison Tree –

Sorting – Searching – Reduction Method – Adversary Argument- Selection – Median Finding.

TEXTBOOK

Basu.S.K, ―Design Methods and Analysis of Algorithms‖, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi,

2005.

Alfred Aho, John Hopcroft, Jeffrey Ullman, ―The Design and Analysis of Computer

Algorithms‖, Pearson Education, Delhi, 2003.

Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest, ―Introduction to Algorithms‖, Prentice

Hall of India, New Delhi, 1998.

REFERENCE

Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran,―Fundamentals of Computer

Algorithms‖, Galgotia Publications Pvt.Ltd., NewDelhi, 2001.


MCA511T

1. INTRODUCTION

OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES 3-1-2-0:100

Introduction – Web Server – PHP – Apache - Installation and Configuration - Installation on Unix

systems - Installation on Windows systems - Data Types - Literals and Variables - Operators and

Control Statements

2. ADVANCED PHP

Functions - Arrays - Cookies - Sessions - COM/DOM Functions - XML Parsing - CURL, Client URL

Library Functions - Date and Time Functions - Directory Functions- String Functions - Unicode

Functions - Classes and Objects (PHP 5) - Security (Magic Quotes, Using Register Globals - User

Submitted Data) – Web Services handling – Validations – Send Mails – CMS Systems

3. MySQL

Introduction MySQL –Features – Functions references – Statements and Syntax – Commands – PHP

MySQL Functions – Connections – Fetch , Display, Close Connection – Database driven applications

4. RUBY

Introduction – Installation and Configuration (Windows / Unix) – Get Started – Ruby – Features -

Socket Programming Usage of TCP Server and TCP Socket Classes for Date and Time - Basic

Networking - Port - Internet Addresses - Sockets - Socket classes - The Date Time Server and Client –

Web Services – Ruby with MySQL, SMTP class – Ruby on Rails Introduction

5. RAILS

Getting Started - Architecture of Rails Applications - Installing and Configuration Rails - Building an

Application - The Rails Framework - Web Services on Rails - The Basics - Relationships between

Tables - Object Life Cycle - The Web, V2.0 - Action Mailer – Securing Your Rails Application -

Deployment and Production

TEXT BOOK

Steven D. Nowicki, Alec Cove, Heow Eide-goodman ,―Professional PHP‖, Wrox Press,

2004.

Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan

Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz,‖Agile Web Development with Rails‖,

Second Edition, The Pragmatic Programmers, 2006.

REFERENCE

Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt , ―Programming Ruby‖, Second Edition, , The

Pragmatic Programmers, 2004.

Bruce Tate,― From Java To Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know‖, The Pragmatic

Programmers, 2006.


1. http://rubyonrails.org/

2. http://ruby-lang.org/

3. www.rubyonrailscamp.com/

4. www.rubyonrailswebhost.com/ 5. http://ruby.feedables.com/

LAB EXERCISES

PHP

1. Control Statements

2. Functions

3. Classes and Objects

4. Database Application with MYSQL

RUBY

5. Socket Programming

6. Ruby with MYSQL

7. Web Services

http://ruby.feedables.com/


MCA 512T COMPUTER GRAPHICS 3-1-2-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION Overview of Graphics System - Bresenham Technique – Line Drawing and Circle Drawing Algorithms

- DDA - Line Clipping - Text Clipping.

2. 2D TRANSFORMATIONS Two Dimensional Transformations – Scaling and Rotations - Interactive Input Methods - Polygons -

Splines – Bezier Curves - Window Viewport Mapping.

3. 3D TRANSFORMATIONS Three Dimensional Display Methods – Three Dimensional Transformations – Projections – Parallel

Projection - Perspective Projection – Visible Surface Detection Methods - Visualization and Polygon

Rendering.

4. ANIMATION Color Models – XYZ-RGB-YIQ-CMY-HSV Models – Animation – Principles of Animation - Key

Frame Systems - General Animation Functions - Morphing.

5. OPENGL OpenGL Command Syntax – Drawing Geometric Objects – Viewing and Modeling Transformations –

Specifying a Color and a Shading Model – Drawing Pixels, Bitmaps, Fonts, and Images – Texture

Mapping.

TEXT BOOKS

UNIT I, II, III & IV

Hearn D and Baker M.P, "Computer graphics – C Version",2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2004.

UNIT V

http://www.glprogramming.com/red/

REFERENCE

Dave Shreiner, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, ―OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official

Guide to Learning OpenGL‖, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008.

Shalini Govil, Pai, ―Principles of Computer Graphics, Theory and Practice Using OpenGL

and Maya‖, Springer International Edition, 2008.


LAB EXERCISES

1. Drawing Geometric Objects.

2. Viewing and Modeling Transformations.

3. Using Colors and Shading Models.

4. Using Glut Bitmap Fonts.

5. Handling Mouse and Keyboard Events.

6. Using Fog Techniques.

7. Using Lighting Effect.

8. Creating Transparent Effect.

9. Using Texture Mapping.

10. Working with Multiple Windows.


MCA513A TE IV : ENTERPRISES APPLICATION USING .NET 3-1-2-0:100

1. COMPONENT BASED PROGRAMMING Introduction – Creating a Simple Component – Properties and State – Database Components

Consuming the Database Component – Enhancing the Component with Error Handling – Aggregate

Information – Data Objects .

2. CUSTOM CONTROLS User Controls – Creating a Simple User Control – Visual Studio.NET Custom Control Support –

Independent User Controls – Integrated User Controls – User Control Events – Limitations – Deriving

Custom Controls.

3. CACHING AND PERFORMANCE TUNING Designing for Scalability – Profiling – Caching - Output Caching – Client Side – Query Structuring –

Events – Custom Caching Control – Caching with HTTP Cache Policy Class – Fragment Caching –

Data Caching – A Simple Cache Test – Caching to Provide Multiple Views.

4. IMPLEMENTING SECURITY Determining Security Requirements – Restricted File Types – Security Concepts – ASP.NET Security

Model – Security Strategies – Certificates – SSL – Forms Authentication – Web.Config Settings –

Login Page – User Lists – Protecting User Passwords with Encryption – Custom Roles – Windows

Authentication – IIS Settings – Web.Config Setting – A windows Authentication Test.

5. ENTERPRISE LIBRARY AND DEPLOYMENT TOOLS Enterprise Library – Developing Applications with Enterprise Library – Design Blocks – Caching –

Cryptography – Data Access – Exception Handling – Logging – Policy Injection – Security – Unity –

Validation – Deployment Tools – Development of Deployment Tools – Choosing a Deployment

Strategy – Clickonce Update Strategy – Deployment and Security.

TEXT BOOK

UNIT I,II,III &IV Matthew MacDonald,―The Complete Reference – ASP.NET‖,Tata McGrawHill, 2002.

UNIT V http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc467894

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wh45kb66.aspx

REFERENCE Stephen Walther, ―ASP.NET2.0 Unleashed‖ , SAMS Publishing, 2006.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc467894

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wh45kb66.aspx


MCA513B TE IV : JAVA OPEN SOURCE FRAMEWORKS 3-1-2-0:100

1. STRUTS-I Introduction to Struts - Actions – Beans – Forms – Properties – Messages

2. STRUTS-II Advanced Action – Exceptions - Manual Validation - Automatic Validation - Struts Tiles.

3. HIBERNATE-I Introduction - Object Relation Mapping - Collection Mapping - Association Mapping - Component

Mapping

4. HIBERNATE-II Inheritance Mapping -Transactions and Concurrency –HQL -Native SQL - Filtering Data

5. REPORTING & TESTING Jasper Report – Features – Reporting capabilities to java applications – Creating JRXML report –

Creating Dynamic Database Report – Working Report Layout and Design Introduction to Junit-Writing

tests-What to test-Boundary conditions- Mock Objects- Properties of good test-testing on a project

TEXTBOOK

UNIT I & II Tutorials developed by Marty Hall, available at http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-

Materials/struts.html.

UNIT III & IV Hibernate Reference Documentation 3.3.1, Copyright © 2004 Red Hat Middleware, LLC available at

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html_single/.

UNIT V David R. Heffelfinger, ―JasperReports for Java Developers Create, Design, Format, and Export Reports

with the World's Most Popular Java Reporting Library‖, Packt publications, 2006.

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, ―Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with Junit‖, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2003

REFERENCE

Minter Dave, Linwood Jeff, ―Beginning Hibernate, From Novice to Professional‖, Apress, 2006.

Doray, Arnold, ―Beginning Apache, From Novice to Professional‖, Apress, 2006.

Toffoli, Giulio, ―Definitive Guide to iReport‖, Apress, 2007.

Beck, Kent , Junit Pocket Guide , O'Reilly Media,

http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-


MCA553A DE - II : MOBILE COMPUTING 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION / FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS Introduction to Mobile Computing: Introduction- Dimensions of mobile Computing- Condition of the

mobile user- Architecture of mobile software applications, Frameworks and Tools : Centralized

Frameworks and Tools- N-Tier Client-Server Frameworks- Publishing Frameworks – Tools - java,

BREW, WAP, Windows CE, Symbian EPOC, XML and UML basic

2.MULTICHANNEL USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT Generic User Interface Development : User Interface Development-Building Generic User Interfaces-

Using UML for Modeling Generic User Interface Component-Xforms-Putting it all to work,

Developing Mobile GUIs: A deeper Look at WAP, JWME, BREW, and Microsoft Platforms for

mobile GUIs

3. MOBILE APPLICATIONS AND MULTIMODAL USER INTERFACES VUIs and Mobile Applications:Qualities of Speech-Voice Transcription-Voice

Recognition-Text to Speech Technologies, Multichannel and Multimodal User Interfaces: Modeling

Multichannel and Multimodal applications with Uml- Multimodal Content- Software and System

Architectures for Delivering Multimodality- Internationalization and Localization- Evolving Definition

of Multimodality

4.DIMENSIONS OF MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT Mobile Agents and Peer-to-Peer Architectures: Mobile Agents-UML extensions for Mobile Agents-

Applications of mobile agents to mobile applications and Implementation Tools-Solving mobile

application development problems with mobile agents- Techniques for agent-based software-Peer to

Peer applications for mobile computing, Wireless Connectivity: Mobile IP- SMS-Quality of Service

5.PUTTING THE PROJECT TOGETHER Mobile Development Process: Applying the wisdom methodology to mobile development- UML based

development cycle for mobile applications, Architectural patterns for mobile applications, Mobile

Application Development hurdles: Voice user interface hurdles- Hurdles with multimodal

applications-Problems with building location-based applications- Power usage, Testing:

Dimensions of mobility on software testing-Stress testing and Scalability issues-Testing location-based

functionality, Case Study

TEXT BOOK Req B‘Far, ―Mobile Computing Principles – Designing and Developing Mobile Applications

with UML and XML‖, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

REFERENCE

Ch. 1,2

Ch. 5,6

Ch. 7,8

Ch. 9,10

Ch. 15,17,18,19

Ivo Salmre, ‖Writing Mobile Code: Essential Software Engineering for Building Mobile

Applications‖, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005.

Valentino Lee, Heather Schneider, Robbi Schell, ―Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design,

and Development‖, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004.


MCA553B DE - II : ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 3-1-0-0:100

1. INTRODUCTION Networks and Commercial Transactions - Internet and Other Novelties – Electronic Transactions Today

- Commercial Transactions - Establishing Trust - Internet Environment - Internet Advantage - World

Wide Web.

2. SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES Why Internet Is Unsecure - Internet Security Holes - Cryptography: Objective - Codes and Ciphers -

Breaking Encryption Schemes - Data Encryption Standard - Trusted Key Distribution and Verification -

Cryptographic Applications - Encryption - Digital Signature – Nonrepudiation and Message Integrity.

3. ELECTRONIC PAYMENT METHODS Traditional Transactions: Updating - Offline and Online Transactions - Secure Web Servers - Required

Facilities - Digital Currencies and Payment Systems - Protocols for the Public Transport - Security

Protocols - SET - Credit Card Business Basics.

4. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE PROVIDERS Online Commerce Options - Functions and Features - Payment Systems : Electronic, Digital and Virtual

Internet Payment System - Account Setup and Costs - Virtual Transaction Process - InfoHaus - Security

Considerations – CyberCash: Model - Security - Customer Protection - Client Application - Selling

through CyberCash.

5. ONLINE COMMERCE ENVIRONMENTS Servers and Commercial Environments - Payment Methods - Server Market Orientation - Netscape

Commerce Server - Microsoft Internet Servers - Digital Currencies - DigiCash - Using Ecash - Ecash

Client Software and Implementation - Smart Cards - The Chip - Electronic Data Interchange - Internet

Strategies, Techniques and Tools.

TEXT BOOK

Pete Loshin, "Electronic Commerce", Fourth Edition, Firewall Media, An imprint of Laxmi

publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2004.

REFERENCE

Jeffrey F.Rayport and Bernard J. Jaworski, "Introduction to E-Commerce", Second Edition,

Tata Mc-Graw Hill Pvt., Ltd., 2003.

Greenstein, "Electronic Commerce", Tata Mc-Graw Hill Pvt., Ltd., 2000.


MCA 515W SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 0-0-0-2:100

1. Leadership Skills: How to make a Leader? – Challenges involved in Leadership – How to lead

with an effective communication?

2. Presentation Skills: Mock Presentation – Framing for Presentation – Preparing a presentation –

Delivering a Presentation – Deliver & Review Presentation

3. Time Management Skills: Time planning and Prioritizing – Key to set up Goals – Efficiency in

Time Management – Action Planning

4. Stress Management: Understanding Stress – Personality Type & its Implication on Stress -

Coping Strategies of Job Stress – Stress and Job Performance

5. Assertiveness: How to be assertive? - Why Assertiveness is important? – Is Assertiveness the

best way to go? – 3 parts of Assertive Communication

6. Decision Making: Stating the problem – List of Option – Weigh the possibleoutcomes –

Consider your values – Make a decision – Evaluate the Decision

7. Negotiation: Approaches, Issues and Common Biases – Gender and Cultural Differences –

Improving Negotiation Skills

8. Self-Motivation: How to be Self Motivated? – Reasons we lose Motivation – Self Motivation

Techniques – 5 important Rules for Motivation

MCA Curriculum 2008 CBCS Batch 2nd Version Page 48

8. Information Literacy Courses

Purpose

Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to ―recognize when information is needed

and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.‖ Information is

available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media, and the

Internet—and increasingly, information comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, raising questions

about its authenticity, validity, and reliability. In addition, information is available through multiple

media, including graphical, aural, and textual, and these pose new challenges for individuals in

evaluating and understanding it. Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning. It enables

learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume

greater control over their own learning. An information literate individual is able to:

• Determine the extent of information needed

• Access the needed information effectively and efficiently

• Evaluate information and its sources critically

• Incorporate selected information into one‘s knowledge base

• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose

• Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access

and use information ethically and legally

Course Stages

1. At the beginning of a semester, the Supervisor (one of the faculty members is appointed for this

course ) asks each student to submit a topic of interest from the defined scope of study, with the

list of available resources (mainly refereed journals). The scope of study is limited for each

semester as given below.

Semester I : Application Software

Semester II : System Software

Semester III : Technology Focus

Semester V : Focus on Domain Elective

2. Approval of Topics: The Supervisor reviews the topics given by the students and allots the topics

( by the second week) in such a manner that not more than three students to get the same topic.

The Supervisor provides guidelines to the students to approach various resources and explore the

topic

3. Problem Definition: To clarify and understand the requirements of the problem or task for which

information is sought, each student is expected to define the problem of study (abstract) in 200

words and submit it online by the fourth week of the semester. Students must also include various

references available on the topic. The work of each student must be unique, although all those

who have the same topic can discuss and share ideas online through official discussion forum of

the course.

4. Organizing/synthesizing: Examining the resources that were found, the information must be

determined to be useful or not useful in solving the problem must be identified. The useful

resources are selected and the inappropriate resources are rejected. Information, which has been

selected, is organized and a schema of the final paper is presented to the supervisor by teh sixth

week of the semester.


5. Paper Submission: Each student submits the final paper online by the eighth week of the

semester. It is mandatory that each student has participated in the online discussion forum along

with the supervisor and other group members.

6. Presentation: Each student makes a presentation of the topic after the review by the supervisor

and necessary corrections. The presentation is approved by the supervisor and is ready for

presentation to the entire class from 10th

to 15th

week of the semester.

While the Report is evaluated by the Supervisor as continuous assessment, the final presentation is

evaluated by the Supervisor along with the peers.

Evaluation Scheme

1. Report

2. Presentation

Evaluation by the Supervisor 20 Marks

Evaluation by the Peers 20 Marks

Reference

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, American Library Association,

2000. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html.

Topic Selection 05 Marks

Problem Definition 05 Marks

Paper Work Schema 10 Marks

Survey of Literature 20 Marks

Technical Exposition 10 Marks

Summary of Discourse 05 Marks

Bibliography & References 05 Marks


9. Software Project [III, IV, V Semester]

The Project work carried out by the students in the Third, Fourth, and the Fifth semester of

MCA is a Team Work.

The Department decides the formation of the teams, having ut most three members for a group,

basing on the technology specialization chosen by the students.

Each team has to select a unique problem space for which the students will develop and enhance

the solution space in three stages for MCA.

The Initial solution for the problem will be obtained by applying the technology they learn in

third semester.

The Solution space is enhanced and stabilized by applying advanced technologies during the

Fourth and Fifth semesters which they learn in the corresponding semesters.

The solutions obtained in the Third, Fourth, and the Fifth semesters will be considered as

separate projects for evaluation. Each student in a Team has to deal with a specific area in the

problem. The report submitted at the end of each semester is an individual work and it has to be

submitted as a PDF document.

The students can not ordinarily change the project groups after a semester. For Personal reasons,

if a student wants to break away from a group, he/she has to continue working on the same

problem space as a single person.

The group will follow Team Software Process (TSP) model strictly for project development.

Each group is assigned a faculty member as Project Supervisor to monitor the progress of the

project work.

Each student has to get the approval for their preparations from their supervisors before each

Lab Session.

Phases of the Project work are Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing

Artifacts to be prepared during the Phases are:

o Software Project Initiation Statement

o System Study

o Software Requirement Specification

o Software Analysis and Design

o Test Case Design

Two Reviews will be conducted after the Design and Testing Phases respectively.


Thirty minutes will be allotted for each team for the review:

o 20 minutes for Presentation.

o 10 minutes for Queries.

Evaluation Components

Project Supervisor (Continuous Internal Assessment)

Lab Preparation 20 Marks

Two Reviews 30 Marks

Artifacts Submissions 30 Marks Total 80 Marks

External Assessment

Product Demonstration 50 Marks

Project Report 30 Marks Total 80 Marks

An External Examiner will conduct the Viva Voce along with the respective Project Supervisor

for 20 marks each.

The average mark (for 100) of the Project Supervisor and the External Examiner will be

calculated and submitted to the controller of examiner.

If a student fails in in-house software project then the student has to perform the set of activities

required for it outside the class hours. The student has to appear for the review fixed by the

department and should also appear for the semester exam viva voce.


10. Software Project – Final Semester

The Project work can be either carried out in a R&D section of any Industry / University /

Institute.

A Coordinator will be appointed by the Head of the Department to coordinate the Project Work.

Internal guides from the department will be assigned to the students.

As soon as a student joins a institution for the project work, he/she has to send the contact details

of the organization and the external guide to the department (to the Internal Guide & the Project

coordinator).

o Project title and the Platform

o Address of the Organization (Phone number, Fax number, E-mail address, URL)

o Address for Communication (where the student stays during the project)

o Telephone / Mobile number (Personal) / Personal E-mail ID.

The duration of the project should be at least four month.

Periodically (weekly) the students should be send project Task Report to their internal guide

through mail

Two Reviews will be conducted before the Final Viva-Voce.

The Project work should be an independent one; if the project is a part of a bigger project, the

student‘s work should have a few independent modules.

If more than one student is working on parts of the same project (big enough to share) the report

of each student should be different and not two copies of the same report.

Evaluation Scheme

o Internal Guide (Continuous Assessment) 80 Marks

o External Examiner Project Report 80 Marks

An External Examiner will conduct the Viva Voce along with the respective Internal Guide for

20 marks each.

The average mark (for 100) of the Internal Guide and the External Examiner will be calculated

and submitted to the controller of examiner.

If a student fails in final semester software project then the student has to perform the set of

activities required for it. The student has to appear for the review fixed by the department and

should also appear for the semester exam viva voce.


11. RESEARCH DOMAIN ELECTIVE COURSES FOR MCA

RESEARCH DOMAIN-I

RESEARCH DOMAIN –II

1. OVERVIEW

As the Department specializes on selected technologies such as Grid Computing, Open Source Software

Technology, Language Technology, eLearning and Semantic Technology, students are invited to join

these research groups during their second semester and they are provided an intensive training between

2nd

and 3rd

semesters.

Each group of students is assigned a problem in the area of their research and asked to develop a

solution during 4th

and 5th

semesters.

For their final project, these students may continue their research project or be directly placed in related

Research Centres or Companies for project work and recruitment.

Based on the research focus and problems posed, the students are expected to prepare an individual

technical report (at least 100 pages) on the field of their study. Theme for Technical Report in 4th

and 5th

semesters will be different. Based on the technical report, a written and oral examination is conducted.

Each student is expected to publish a paper in one of the national conferences or journals. In these

research papers, they will present the outcome of their experiments and analysis.

This course aims to achieve an understanding of the research challenges by assigned readings, technical

report writing, discussions and presentations on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the subject

under study. Two research outputs shall be submitted by the students as their Research Portfolio namely

Technical Report and Research Survey. An input session is given on research methodology for the

selected students.

2. COURSE ELEMENTS

a. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Input Sessions shall be given for the students (at least 10 hours) in each semester to know the

methodology for research work and apply the same.

Semester IV : Research – Objectives – Motivations - Types of research – Research approaches –

Significance of Research – Research process – Criteria for good research - GOOD STYLE AND –

PUNCTUATION - Economy – Tone – Motivation – Balance voice – Analogies – Reference and

citation – Quotation- Acknowledgement – Grammar – Beauty – Titles and headings – Paragraphing-

Sentence structure – Choice of words – Jargon – Formatting.

Semester V : EDITING, WRITING AND RESEARCH EXPERIMENTATION -Consistency –

Proof reading – Scope of a paper – Organization –– research Project – Finding Research Literature –

Research Planning – Reflections on research - Designing experiments – Measurements and coding –

contribution - Evaluation of papers – Plagiarism – Intellectual properties - Authorship, Content-

organization.


b. TECHNICAL REPORT

Based on the research focus and problems posed, the students are expected to prepare the individual

Technical Report (at least 50 pages) on the field of their study. The Technical Report (TR) is a

comprehensive understanding of the subject through which students communicate their study of the

subject. TR should present core understanding of the subject developed logically along clearly

identified perspective. The TR must include the Concepts, Technology, Tools, and Application of the

expounded topic. This report is worth 50% of the course. Theme for Technical Report in 4th and 5th

semesters are different.

c. RESEARCH SURVEY

Research Survey (RS) focuses on a research problem related to the selected field of work. Students

should pick a problem, gather materials on the research done in the field, discuss the current state of

understanding on the topic and describe particular areas where progress appears possible. This paper is

worth 50% of the course. The evaluation of the research paper is done by external reviewers along with

the internal supervisor. Each student is encouraged to publish the survey paper in one of the national

conferences or journals.

3. TOPICS FOR RESEARCH STUDY

To facilitate students into the area of research, potential topics for study in each chosen field are given

below. The students can choose one of these topics or suggest a relevant topic in consultation with the

Research Supervisor.

a. eLearning

Impact of Web 2.0 in eLearning - Use of Digital media in development of eLearning Content - Use of

Learning Objects- Development and delivery of asynchronous eLearning - Authoring tools to design

and produce interactive learning content - Content management systems for eLearning - eLearning

Project Management - Use of design processes for eLearning - Development and delivery of

synchronous eLearning - Rapid e-Learning design and development - Use of complex media for

eLearning - Measurement of academic and business results of eLearning - Design of modular learning

objects - Asynchronous e-Learning Learner assessment - Use of authoring tools for design and

production - Content Management Systems and reuse of content - eLearning Project management - Use

of design processes in eLearning - Synchronous e-Learning - Instructor training in synchronous delivery

skills - Work-share e-Learning development - Customizing, Personalizing and re-purposing learning

content - Instructor-led classroom-based learning - Mobile eLearning

b. Decision Support System

Taxonomies in Decision System - Decision Theory and Modeling - Decision System‘s Specific

Application (Clinical, Spatial, Market Analysis etc.) - Domain-independent Decision System - Web

Intelligence - Impact of Supporting Disciplines for DS (Cognitive, Communication, Computer,

Management, System, and Organization Sciences, Multi-criteria Decision Making and Psychology) -

Decision System Development Framework - Web-based Decision System - Spreadsheet-based Decision

System - Web Intelligence - Architecture of Decision System - Data management system - Model

management system - Knowledge Engine - Decision System Application (Clinical, Spatial, Economic,

Educational etc.) - Relationships between DS Subspecialties and Reference Disciplines - Multi-Criteria

Decision Making - Contributions of Cognitive and other supporting science to the Development of DS -

Emergency and Disaster Management DS -Business-process management - Service-oriented Decision

computing - Requirements engineering for DS - Conceptual modeling - Agent-Oriented Decision

Systems - Constraint Programming - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for DS

c. Semantic Web and Ontologies

Describing Web Resources using RDF - Axiomatic Semantics for RDF and RDF Schema - Direct

Inference System for RDF and RDFS - Querying in SPARQL – Using Web Ontology Language for

Intelligent Systems - Monotonic Rules - Description Logic Programs (DLP) - Semantic Web Rule


Language (SWRL) - Nonmonotonic Rules - Ontology Development Methods and Methodologies-

Methods for Re-engineering Ontologies – Ontology Learning Methods – Ontology Merging Methods –

ONIONS – FCA Merge – PROMPT – Ontology Mapping Methods – Ontology Evaluation Methods.

d. Knowledge Management

Connective knowledge methods and tools - Distributed knowledge management - Inter-enterprise

knowledge management - Knowledge clusters (knowledge items into clusters) - KM in Ambient

Intelligence - KM in Community based Collaborative Workplaces (online communities) - KM in

Mobile Technologies - Eco-Knowledge in Information environments - KM standards - Knowledge

Repositories (Proprietary and Open) - Expert Systems - Content Management System as Knowledge

Base - KM Search Engines - Information Theory - KM for Digital Economy - Interdisciplinary KM

Application (Cognitive Science – Groupware - Library & Information Science - Document

Management -Organizational Science).

4. EVALUATION SCHEME

The following guidelines shall be applied in evaluation of technical reports and Research Papers. For

the Students admitted from the year 2008-2009:

Content Internal

Marks

Semester Marks

Technical Report (TR) 30 Marks

Research Survey (RS) 30 Marks

Test (CA) 20 Marks -

Viva Voce - 15 Marks

Regularity 5 Marks

TOTAL 25 Marks 75 Marks

Evaluation of Technical Report and Research Survey are done on the basis of their scientific merit,

effective presentation, and appropriateness for assignment. Student is rewarded based on thorough

analysis, originality, and insightfulness found in the Technical Report. Scientific merit includes

correctness, significance, novelty, non-triviality, and completeness.

Students shall individually and periodically meet their Research Guide and shall maintain Minutes of

the Meeting (MoM) describing their following activities: Review of Task, Points for Discussion,

Resource Document (Output) and Action Item.

The Technical Report and Research Survey Paper shall be sent for blind review to at least two external

subject experts. The Head of the Department nominates the external subject experts (who are interested

in the area of study) to review the students‘ work by sending the work to them by email.

Research Domain subjects will not have term-end examination, instead they have viva voce conducted

by a committee of two examiners after the review of their works by the External Review Committee.

Remunerations for the committee members will be as per the university norms. The viva voce will be

conducted on the same day/time while the other Domain elective semester examinations are being

conducted. The duration of viva voce for each student shall be at least 15 minutes. (8 minutes for

presentation and 7 minutes for question and answers)


The Head of the Department will finally submit the cumulative of the following marks to the COE:

Technical Report, Research Survey, Viva Voce.

If a candidate fails he/she has to redo the course by paying for the examination fee along with the

students of next batch and select a topic from the list of topics published by the department.

The following norms shall be applied to evaluate the technical report and research survey paper by the

internal guide as well as the external review committee.

Rank A

(Outstanding)

B

(Good)

C

(Satisfactory)

D

(Needs Work)

(Scoring) 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Criterion

Focus of

argument

Precise,

concrete,

complex thesis;

highly coherent

argument

Good thesis, but

could be more

specific;

focused

argument, but

may lapse

occasionally

Weak,

simplistic,

and/or unclear

thesis; lack of a

strong focus to

argument

Vague and/or sloppy

thesis; completely

unfocused discussion

Depth of

analysis

-- Explores

issue thoroughly

and intelligently

-- Examines

issue from

multiple

perspectives

-- Explores

ideas and

develops a clear

position with

insight and

persuasive

examples

-- Explores

issue

adequately and

with some

insight

-- Supports a

defined position

with good

examples

-- Argument

and/or

examples weak

in places

-- Defines an

issue, but

explores it

inadequately

-- Use of

examples is

inconsistent

and/or

significantly

lacking

-- Doesn't adequately

define or explore an issue

-- Very weak support:

poor and/or lack of

relevant examples

-- Lack of thoughtful

development


Integration

of sources

-- Smooth and

judicious

integration of

info. in

argument

-- Sources

clearly relate to

and support

thesis

-- Effective

analysis/critique

of sources

-- Excellent

balance b/t

quoting and

paraphrasing;

emphasis on

latter

-- Good

integration of

sources

-- Sources

relate to and

support thesis,

but

inconsistently

-- Sources are

analyzed, but

inconsistently

and/or

insufficiently

-- OK balance

b/t quoting and

paraphrasing

--Inconsistent

and/or sloppy

integration of

sources

-- Sources only

marginally

support thesis

-- Insufficient

analysis of

sources

-- Inadequate

balance b/t

quoting and

paraphrasing

(too much

quoting)

-- Poor integration of too

few sources

-- Sources don't support

thesis

-- Sources are "plopped

in" without analysis

Organizati

on

-- Clear and

logical

throughout

-- Clear and

forceful intro.

-- Excellent

transitions

-- Focused

paragraphs

-- Basically

clear, with some

lapses possible

-- Adequate

intro.

-- Good

transitions, but

used

inconsistently

-- Generally

focused

paragraphs,

with some

lapses

-- Unclear:

reader must

work to discern

organization

-- Weakly

developed intro.

-- Inadequate

use of

transitions

-- Many

unfocused

paragraphs

--Poor overall organ.

-- Very weak intro.

-- Lack of transitions

-- High % of unfocused

paragraphs

Mechanics

and Style

-- Writer's voice

is clear and

strong

-- Highly

readable, fluid

prose

-- Sophisticated

writing style

-- Excellent

grammar

-- Careful

editing

-- Writer's voice

is somewhat

overshadowed

by sources

-- Readable,

generally clear

prose

-- Good

grammar, with

some errors

-- Fair editing

-- Writer's voice

is unclear, hard

to discern

-- Prose is often

difficult to read

-- Significant #

and frequency

of grammatical

errors

-- Weak editing

-- Prose is consistently

unclear and difficult to

read

-- High # of errors

-- Editing is poor or

completely lacking


Document

ation

-- Excellent

quoting and

paraphrasing

technique

-- MLA style

used

consistently and

correctly

-- Complete and

error-free works

cited list

-- Good quoting

and

paraphrasing

technique, with

some lapses

-- MLA style

generally used

well, allowing a

few mistakes

-- Good, but not

perfect, works

cited list

-- Just adequate

quoting and

paraphrasing

technique, but

many errors

-- Fair works

cited list, but

with several

errors

-- Poor quoting and

paraphrasing technique

-- MLA style not used in

text

-- Works cited list not in

MLA format, alphabetical

order, etc.

Rank A

(Outstanding)

B

(Good)

C

(Satisfactory)

D

(Needs Work)

(Scoring) 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 point

Quality of

research

-- Relevant,

timely, and

varied sources

-- Excellent

balance b/t

scholarly and

mainstream

works

-- # of sources

exceeds

minimum

-- Relevant and

timely sources,

but may be

limited in scope

-- Sufficient

balance b/t

scholarly and

mainstream

works

-- # of sources

at or above min.

-- Sources

significantly lack

in timeliness,

scope, or

relevance

-- Clear lack of

thorough

research

--Over reliance

upon popular

works

-- Min. # of

sources

consulted

-- Dated and/or irrelevant

sources

-- Lack of fundamental

research

-- Lack of scholarly

sources

-- Min. # or fewer sources

consulted


12. Evaluation & Certification

Maximum marks for each course is spelled out in the Programme Structure. The weightage of

continuous internal assessment for the courses with end semester examination is 25%. Other courses

such as Field Work, Workshops, Seminars and some Practicals have only internal assessment.

12.1 Continuous Assessment

S. No. Course Type Internal Components Marks Total

1 Lectures with Tutorials 2 CA Tests 15 25 Paper Work 05

Seminars / Tutorials 05

2 Lectures with Tutorials and Practical 2 CA Tests 10 25 Paper Work/Tutorials 05

Lab Exercises 10

3 Practical Programming Lab Exercises 30 40 CA Test 10

4 Field Work/Workshops/Seminar Participation 20 100 Technical Report 40

Final Presentation 40

5 Information Literacy Report 60 100 Presentation 40

12.2 CA Tests

The time duration for the examination is 2 Hrs. The question paper format is:

Section A Answer ALL Questions.

[Six questions] 6 x 3 = 18

Section B Answer ALL Questions.

[Internal Choice, three questions] 3 x 9 = 27

Section C Answer any TWO Questions.

[Two out of Three questions.] 2 x 15 = 30

12.3 End-Semester Examinations

12.3.1 Theory

The time duration for the examination is 3 Hrs. The question paper format for the

end-semester examination is:

Section A Answer ALL Questions.

[At least two question from each unit] 10 x 2 = 20

Section B Answer ALL Questions.

[Internal Choice, one question from each unit] 5 x 5 = 25

Section C Answer THREE Questions out of FIVE questions.

[Atleast one question from each unit] 3 x 10 = 30


12.3.2 Practical Courses

• For each practical course, a question bank is prepared at the introduction of the course by a

committee of utmost three staff members.

• The Committee prepares the questions and reviews them through regular meetings in consultation with

the Controller of Examinations. Utmost 3 meetings can be conducted for a single course.

• Office of the Controller of Examinations will provide sitting charges for the members of the

committee.

• The Head of the Department will submit the Question Bank to the controller of Examinations within

three months of the introduction of the course from the beginning of the new academic year.

• The Controller can select the questions for every batch of the practical examinations as per the number

of candidates.

• Each question must be separated from the given questions provided by the Controller and must be

pasted on the answer paper in such a way that, each answer paper is pasted with only one question.

• The answer paper pasted with question must be displayed, without showing the questions to the

students. The students should select only one answer paper pasted with question and solve the problem.

• No question must be prescribed by the examiner, other than the questions provided by the Controller.

• All questions given for batch must be used for that batch only.

Question Paper Pattern

Time: 3 Hrs. Max. Marks: 50 + 10 (10 for Record)

Each student will get a single question to be answered. The question will have two subdivisions.

(2 x 25 = 50)

First part, shall contain questions from the exercise list and the second part will present an

unexplored problem to be solved. The problem should be addressed using at least 3 technical

features of the respective Technology stream.

No more than three candidates should get the same question in a batch.

12.3.3 Software Project Work [I, II, III, and IV]

Refer Section 10 and Section 11 for the Evaluation scheme.

12.3.4 Research Domain

Refer Section 12 for the Evaluation scheme.

12.3.5 Valued added Courses from the placement cell

[Communication Skills, Software Documentation and Quantitative Aptitude Techniques]

If a student fails in any one of the courses then he/she has to apply for it in the subsequent semester

and redo the set of activities required for it after getting the permission from the head of the

department and the placement officer.

If the student has a attendance below 55% then he has to redo the course along with the next batch.

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