GENERAL AWARENESS COURSE: INFORMATICS FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

General Awareness Course: Informatics for Computer Applications

Unit – 1

Concept of Hardware and Software: Computer Languages – Machine Language, Assembly Language, High Level Language, Language translators: Complier, Interpreter, Assembler, Features of good Language.

Unit – 2

Basic Computer Organization: Von  Neumann model, Input Unit, Output Unit, Storage Unit, Control Unit, Memory hierarchy, RAM, ROM, PROM and EPROM, cache memory and registers. Secondary storage devices, Storage capacity: Bit, Byte, Nibble.

Unit – 3

Introducing Input output devices with examples. Introduction to operating System: need of OS, Types of OS Functions of OS (introduction only). Introduction to Computer Networks: definition and applications.

Unit – 4

Introduction to Linux: Basic commands in Linux such as listing  files, viewing contents in files, creating and deleting directories, moving and copying files and/or  directories, man pages, setting permissions on files/ directories and vi editor. Steps To install Linux OS.

Unit – 5

IT & Society – issues and concerns- digital divide, IT & development, free software movement, cyber ethics, cybercrime, cyber threats, cyber Security, privacy issues, cyber laws, cyber addictions, guide lines for proper usage of computer, internet and mobile phones.