BCA 601-Multimedia and Application

Multimedia: An Introduction, Definition, Facets of multimedia, Various classification.

Multimedia: Hardware/ Software Requirements, Introduction, A typical multimedia
system configuration, multimedia upgrade standards. Multimedia Hardware.
Multimedia Software: Introduction, Various types of multimedia software, Drivers,
Players, tools and application.
Multimedia Audio:Digital Audio Technology- Computer And Sounds, Digital Audio,
Definition, Digital Audio Parameters, Audio Channel sing, Digital Recording pitfalls,
digital Audio playback.
The Sound Card Fundamentals: The Audio Card Family: Sound Cards, MIDI,
Interface Cards and wave synthesis cards, the sound card fundamentals: Audio Synthesis
technology- FM synthesis and Wavetable Synthesis, Sound Card Functionalities,
Configuration the Sound Card under MS- windows 95 and Windows 3.11.
Digital Audio Playback and Recording- Digital Audio Playback: Windows Media
player Program, Creatives Group of Audio Software, Multimedia Deck, Player and
Editing Programs, Digital Audio Recording and Editing Techniques, Creatives Wave
Studio Software.
MIDI Fundamentals: Introduction, Concept of MIDI, MIDI vs Digital Audio, General
MIDI standards: Base level and extended level MIDI, General MIDI channel
Assignments, General MIDI Instruments Assignments, Creatives Wave Blaster Cards.
Working with MIDI: MIDI Playback, MIDI Recording the MIDI Music data, Editing
MIDI Music files: Music, Sculptor.

MULTIMEDIA TEXTS:

Texts in Multimedia: introduction, Text as a part of multimedia project, Designing texts
for multimedia, multimedia text- Display design consideration- (a) Fonts and their
management, (b) Titling: Anti- aliasing texts and special effects, Multimedia text-
Content design considerations, hypermedia, Hypertexts, Text Editing Software Tools.
Multimedia Graphics:
The world of colors- Introduction, basic Concepts of Color Displays, monitor video
Modes, Color Monitors, Color monitors Parameters, Switching on to the difference video
mode, The public Information display System (PIDS), Presentation Display System
(PDS).
Digital Imaging Fundamentals: Introduction, Graphics in multimedia project- Interface
Design Graphics and content Design, Sources of Images: Photographic Images, Clip arts
and others, 3 dimensional graphic images, Rastor and Vector Graphics, Hypergraphics,
Digital Imaging Software tools.
Digital Image Development and Editing- Scanning Techniques, Digital Photographic
techniques, Graphic Editing/ Manipulation terminology, Anti-Aliasing Picture, Image
processing Software tools, Photo gallery, CD- ROMs, Clip Arty Libraries and other
sources of Images.

MULTIMEDIA ANIMATION:
Computer Animation Fundamental- Introduction, Animation in multimedia projects,
Object and cel animation, two dimensional And Three dimensional Animations.
Animation Software tools and Techniques- introduction, decision between two and three
dimensional Animation. Two and three dimensional Animation techniques, Preliminary
procedures. Animation development process, two dimensional animation Environment.
Three dimensional animation Environment, two dimensional animation software tools,
Kinetics animation Studio, three dimensional animation software tool, kinetics

MULTIMEDIA VIDEO:
Digital video Fundamentals- introduction, video in multimedia projects, digital video
fundamentals, full motion and full screen videos, digital video file sizes, MPEG
revolution, Apples Quick time video for Windows.

Digital Video Production Techniques- Introduction, video production in multimedia,
shooting the sequence, video capture techniques, video capture boards, the connection
jacks, setting up the digital video studio, video capture software, editing out the video
stuff, cut, copy and paste operations, zooming, digital painting process, chroma keying,
Embedding sound clipses.


B C A V I S e m
A r t i f i c i a l I n t e l l i g e n c e ( 6 0 2 )

O v e r v i e w o f A I : E a r l y W o r k s i n A I , A I a n d r e l a t e d f i e l d s , E a r l y W o r k s i n A I , A I a n d
r e l a t e d f i e l d s
P r o b l e m S o l v i n g : P r o b l e m S o l v i n g i n t r o d u c t i o n , S t a t e s p a c e s e a r c h , P r o d u c t i o n s y s t e m :
B F S , D F S , P r o b l e m c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s , H e u r i s t i c s e a r c h - G e n e r a t e a n d T e s t , S i m p l e H i l l
C l i m b i n g
K n o w l e d g e R e p r e s e n t a t i o n : I n t r o . O f K n o w l e d g e r e p r e s e n t a t i o n , D e f i n i t i o n a n d
I m p o r t a n c e o f k n o w l e d g e , K n o w l e d g e b a s e d s y s t e m , R e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f K n o w l e d g e ,
I n t r o d u c t i o n o f P r e d i c a t e l o g i c , W e l l F o r m e d F o r m u l a , I n f e r e n c e r u l e a n d n u m e r i c a l , T h e
R e s o l u t i o n p r i n c i p l e , R e p r e s e n t a t i o n u s i n g r u l e
O b j e c t O r i e n t e d R e p r e s e n t a t i o n : C o n c e p t o f O b j e c t O r i e n t e d P r o g r a m m i n g : O v e r v i e w ,
P r o g r a m m i n g a p p r o a c h : O b j e c t , c l a s s , M e s s a g e a n d M e t h o d , I n t r o . O f S i m u l a t i o n a n d
e x a m p l e o f S i m u l a t i o n , U s e s o f A I i n O O P s
L e a r n i n g : I n t r o o f L e a r n i n g , B a s i c c o n c e p t , G e n e t i c A l g o r i t h m , L e a r n i n g b y I n d u c t i o n
E x p e r t S y s t e m : I n t r o , N e e d a n d j u s t i f i c a t i o n o f E x p e r t s y s t e m , K n o w l e d g e A c q u i s i t i o n ,
K n o w l e d g e b u i l d i n g t o o l s

S u g g e s t e d r e a d i n g :
D a n W . P e t t e r s o n : I n t r o d u c t i o n t o A I a n d e x p e r t s y s t e m , P H I










BCA603: Networking Operating System
Introduction: Background, UNIX philosophy, online help facility, man command.

The File System: The file structure of file system, interacting with file
system,pwd,cd,ls,cat,mkdir,rmdir commands,relative path names,chmod,cp,rm,and mv
commands,special device files.

General Purpose Utilities: More,file,wc,cmp,comm.,diff,lp,banner,cal,date,who,tty,and
commands

The Vi Editors: Three Modes,input mode,adding and replacing text,saving text and
quitting ,repeat factor,command mode,operators,handling multiples files,customizing vi.

Filters: Three standard files connecting command with a pipe,tee
,pr,head,tail,cut,paste,sort, filters grep,egrep,fgrep filters.

Shell Programming: The Shell and Kernal ,Bourne,C and Kron shells,sh
command,combining commands,wild cards,escaping,quoting,command substitution,shell
variables,system variables,positional parameters,logical operators,if
condition,read,exit,case,while,until,set,shift and trap statements.looping with for. Simple
shell programs.

Win NT: Introduction to Windows NT.