Language: To familiarise with the hardware and the operating system and to solve simple problems by programming in C as per the syllabus.
- Computer hardware: basic building blocks, central processing units, memory, hard disc, RAM. ROM, CD-ROM, DVD, pen drive, memory units: bits and bytes, input-output devices.
- Computer software: Operating system, Windows, Unix/Linux
- Programmingin C: basic structure, character set, keywords, identifiers, constants, variables, type declaration, operators --- arithmetic, rational, logical, assignment, increment, increment and decrement, operator precedence and associativity, arithmetic expression, evaluation and type conversion character I/O, escape sequence and formatted I/O, branching and looping, if, if-else, while, do-while, for, arrays (one and two dimensional).
Numerical analysis:
- Sorting: arranging in ascending/descending order.
- Read N numbers ,find their mean, median, mode.
- Sum of a G.P. series term by term.
- Solution of a quadratic equation with real / complex roots.
- Simple matrix operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication).
To use database package and word processor.