Fundamentals of Information Technology

Subject Code IT121D

Marks 100
Number of Lecture Hours/Week 1
Total Number of Contact Hours 15
CREDITS 2 ( L T P : 1 0 2)
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To provide fundamental knowledge of computer, hardware, software and basics of information technology. To
provide basic skills and be able to use the main personal computer applications

COURSE OUTCOME:
CO1. Students will be able to learn about fundamentals of computers, different input and output devices.
CO2. Learn about IT, issues and challenges.
CO3. Students will also be able to learn the basics of Operating system , different commands related to DOS
operating system.
CO4. Learn about internet and working through internet and cloud.
CO5. Learn different types of networks.

Particulars 6 Hours

Unit 1 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Fundamental of computer, hardware components of computer- Input/ Output Devices and CPU: RAMs,
ALU, Control Unit. Information Technology, Issues and Challenges in Information Technology. Input
Devices: Keyboard, Mouse, Trackball, Joystick, Digitizing tablet, Scanners, Digital Camera, MICR,
OCR, OMR, Bar-Code Reader, Voice Recognition, Light Pen, Touch Screen. Output Devices: Monitors
Characteristics and types of monitor, Video standard VGA, SVGA, XGA, LCD, LED Screen etc.
printer, Daisy wheel, Dot Matrix, Inkjet, Line Printer. Plotter, Sound Card and Speakers. Storage
fundamental , primary Vs. secondary memory, various storage devices magnetic tape, data drives, hard
drives, floppy disks, CD, VCD, CD-R, CDRW, Zip Drive, DVD, DVD-RW, flash drive.

Particulars 6 Hours
Unit 2: INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM:
Introduction to operating systems, its functioning and types, basic commands of dos & windows
operating system. DOS Basics –FAT, file & directory structure and naming rules, booting process, DOS
system files. DOS commands – Internal commands: dir, md, cd, rd, copy, del, ren, vol, date, time, cls,
path, type etc. external commands - chkdsk, scope, print, diskcopy, tree, move, label, append, format,
 sort, fdisk, backup, mode, attrib, help, sys etc.

Particulars 3 Hours
Unit 3 COMPUTER NETWORKS:
Introduction to computer network, types of computer network – LAN, MAN and WAN. History of
Internet, Web browsers, working of internet. Introduction to Cloud.

TEXT BOOKS
1.V.Rajaraman, Fundamental of Computers , PHI Publications, 6th Edition, 2014
2.P.K. Sinha, Fundamental of Computers B.P.B Publication, 6th Edition, 2008

REFERENCES

1 Suresh Basandra, Computer Today, Galgotia Publication ,1st edition, 2010

2.E. Balaguruswamy, Fundamentals of Computers, TMH, 2nd edition ,2017

SR.NO. EXPERIMENT NAME

1 Demonstration of internal DOS Commands.
2 Demonstration of external DOS Commands.
3 Design of Resume using Ms-Word.
4 Design of ID card in Ms-Word.
5 Design of Marksheet in MS-Excel and calculation of division .
6 Implementation of mathematical functions in Ms-Excel.
7 Create a line chart based on a set of values for populations in several cities in
INDIA Generate a Bar chart from the data.
8 Create a pie chart based on a set of values for the amount of rainfall for each of
any ten cities.
9 Make a power point presentation on computer science and its applications. Use
Audio , video and text for presentation.
10 Create a slide show on the subject of pets. Use graphics from clip art or created
in a Drawing or Painting environment.
11 Creation of E-mail id in Yahoo and Google.