CS1004 Computer and Information Technology
(Common for ECE, EEE, EIE,EContE, BME. CSE & CSIT)

Unit I (Qualitative Treatment Only)

Computers, Capability, types of computers, application areas, computer anatomy, functional block diagram, central processing unit, functions of ALU and Control Unit in CPU, purpose of registers in CPU, microprocessors, CISC/RISC processors, memory functions, address, word, RAM, ROM, Cache memory, associate memory, magnetic disk, tape, floppy, optical disk, address bus, data bus, control bus, functions of I/O devices, keyboard, mouse, light pen, dot-matrix printer, line printer, laser printer, ink-jet printer, CRT monitor, color monitor, CGA, screen resolution, flat panel, display unit, machine language, instruction, stored program concept, assembly language, assembler, high-level language, compiler, operating system, types of operating systems, number systems, Binary, Hex, Octal, BCD code, character code, 3 methods of binary representation of integers, floating point numbers.

Unit II (Qualitative Treatment Only)

Internet and World Wide Web; Information Technology today, Word processing and desktop publishing, spread-sheet and database applications, communications – electronic web

Unit III (Qualitative Treatment Only)

Multimedia, IT in business, Programming and Systems development, personal, social and ethical issues.

Unit IV (Numerical Methods I)

Iterative methods, bisection, false position, Newton – Raphson, Successive approximation method, algorithms comparision of iterative methods, solution of linear simultaneous algebric equations, Gauss Jordan and Gauss Siedal’s methods, algorithms

Unit V (Numerical Methods II)

Interpolation, Lagrange Interpolation, forward difference, Backward difference and central difference interpolation methods, algorithms, errors in interpolation, least square approximation of functions, linear regression, polynomial regression, algorithms.

Unit VI (Numerical Methods III)

Numerical integration by Trapezoidal and Simpson’s rule, algorithms, Numerical solution of differential equations, Euler method, Runge –kutta fourth order method, Milne predictor corrector method, algorithms, comparision of Runge-Kutta and Predictor-Corrector methods.

Text Books

1. “Computer and Commonsense” by Shelly and Hunt, 4 th Edition, Prentice-Hall of India
2. “Computer Oriented Numerical Methods” by V Rajaraman
3. Information Technology by Dennis P Curtin, KIM Folly, Kvnal Sen, Cathleen Morin, Tata McGraw-Hill Companies
4. Numerical Methods by E Balaguruswamy
5. Introduction to Computers by Peter Norton