COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Course syllabus
Disk Operating System (DOS)
Introduction,
History & Versions of DOS
- DOS basics
- Physical structure of
disk, drive name, FAT, file & directory structure and naming rules,
- Booting process, DOS
system files
Basic DOS Commands
- Internal – DIR, MD, CD,
RD, Copy, DEL, REN, VOL, DATE, TIME, CLS, PATH, TYPE etc
- External – CHKDSK, PRINT,
DISKCOPY, DOSKEY, MOVE, LABEL, FORMAT, SORT, FDISK,
- BACKUP, EDIT, MODE,
ATTRIB, HELP, SYS etc
Executable V/s Non
executable files in DOS
- Windows concepts,
features, windows structure, desktop, taskbar, start menu,
- My computer, Recycle Bin
- Windows Accessories –
Calculator, Notepad, Paint, WordPad, Character map
- Windows Explorer –
Creating folders and other Explorer facilities
- Entertainment – CD Player
,DVD Player, Media Player, Sound Recorder, Volume Control Linux
Introduction,
History & Versions of Linux
- Linux basics
- Physical structure of
disk, drive name, FAT, file & directory structure and naming rules,
booting
- process, Linux system
files
Basic Linux Commands
- Internal – LS, Make
Directory, CD, CP,MB, DEL, REN, DATE, TIME, CLEAR, etc
- Executable V/s Non
executable files in Linux
- Microsoft Office (MS Word,
Excel, Power Point)
- Word Processing: MS Word
Introduction to
Word Processing
- Introduction to MS Word:
features, Creating, Saving and Opening documents in Word, Interface,
- Toolbars, Ruler, Menus,
Keyboard Shortcut
- Editing a Document –
Moving, Scrolling in a document, Opening Multi document windows, Editing
- Text – Selecting,
Inserting, deleting, moving text
- Previewing documents,
Printing documents – Print a document from the standard toolbar, Print a
- document from the menu,
shrinking a document to fit a page, Reduce the number of pages by one
- Formatting Documents:
Paragraph formats, Aligning Text and Paragraph, Borders and Shading,
Headers and Footers, Multiple Columns Worksheet:
MS Excel Worksheet
basics
- Creating worksheet,
entering data into worksheet, heading information, data, text, dates, Cell
formatting values, saving & protecting worksheet
- Opening and moving around
in an existing worksheet
- Toolbars and Menus,
keyboard shortcuts
- Working with single and
multiple workbook – coping, renaming, moving, adding and deleting, coping entries
and moving between workbooks
- Working with formulas
& cell referencing – Auto sum - Coping formulas - Absolute & Relativeaddressing
- Working with ranges –
creating, editing and selecting ranges, sorting
- Formatting of worksheet –
Auto format, changing – alignment, character styles, column width,
- Date format, borders &
=colures, currency signs
- Previewing & Printing
worksheet – Page setting, Print titles, Adjusting margins, Page break,
headers and footers Graphs and
charts – using wizards, various charts type, formatting grid lines &
legends, previewing & printing charts
Presentation Graphics: MS Power Point
- Features and various
versions
- Creating presentation
using Slide master and template in various colure scheme Working with different views and
menus of power point
- Working with slides – Make
new slide, move, copy, delete, duplicate, lay outing of slide, zoom in or out
of a slide Editing and formatting text: Alignment, editing, inserting,
deleting, selecting, formatting of text, find and replace text
- Bullets, footer, paragraph
formatting, spell checking
- Printing presentation –
Print slides, notes, handouts and outlines
- Inserting Objects –
Drawing and inserting objects using Clip Art's pictures and charts
- Custom Animation – slide
transition effects and other animation effects
- Presenting the show –
making stand alone presentation