TYBcom Computer Syllabus for C programming

TYBcom Computer Systems and Application subject (from 2009) has Unit IV as 'Introduction to C programming' having syllabus as follows.

1) Introduction :
C character set
Reserved words
Identifiers
C data types
C type modifiers
Constants
Variables
Expressions
Operators (Unary , Binary, Relational, Logical)
C assignment statements
Operator Precedence
Concept of header files (stdio.h, math.h, conio.h only)

2) Simple programming concepts :
Form of a C program, printf() (%d,%f,%c,%s,%lf,%ld), scanf(), gets(), getchar(), puts(), putchar(), getch(), putch(), pow(), sqr(), clrscr(), storage class specifiers , Preprocessor directive #include <>


3) Control Statements:
If else , for, while , do while , switch , break , continue .

4) Arrays :
Concept of one dimensional array (character and integer ) , sorting of numbers , printing array of numbers.

What is a blog?

A blog is a type of website where information like commentary, description, review, pictures, video is posted regularly and usually displayed in chronological order i.e. latest post on top. Each post is like a webpage and it usually has option of comments for visitors.
e.g. http://bigb.bigadda.com – is a personal blog by bollywood celebrity.
http://www.tech2.com – is a blog for reviews of gadgets like mobile phone, camera etc.

Questions from Chapter 1 - Data Communication, Networking and Internet

Questions from Chapter 1 – Data Comm., Networking and Internet
(Only points are given for answers )

1) Explain data communication components
(Message or data, sender, receiver, transmission medium, protocol)

2) What are different forms of data representation?
(Text, numbers, images, audio, video)

3) What is distributed processing?

4) Explain different types of computer networks.
(LAN, MAN, WAN)

5) What are advantages of networking?
Resource sharing, Upgradation cost, Security and Manageability,Workgroup Applications

6) Explain in brief different types of network structures / architecture
(Server based, Client server, Peer to peer)

7) Explain different types of topologies
(Star, Bus, Ring)

8) Write short note - network media
(Wired – twisted pair cable, coaxial cable, optical fiber. Wireless- electromagnetic waves)

9) Explain Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers

10) Explain OSI reference model.
(ISO, layers, 7 layers)

11) Explain TCP/IP model.
(Intro, 5 layers)

12) Explain layer 3 and layer 4 of OSI model.

13) What is internet? What are different types of internet connections?
(Dial up, Broadband, ISDN, T1, T3, GPRS, Wireless)

14) Write short note – Sharing of internet connection.

15) What is a blog?

16) What is URL? Explain different parts of URL.

17) Explain different types of search engines.
(Crawler based, search directories, Meta search engines, specialized search engines.)

18) What are different methods of search?
(Advance search, Boolean search)

19) Explain different types of email services and parts of email address.
(Web based – Online, POP, and IMAP (?))

20) Short notes - IP address, Domain names, Scanning email for viruses.

Types of search engines

There are different types of search engines.

1) Crawler / Spider or robot based search engines - Search engines like google and yahoo has their own spider or crawler software which automatically visits and collects data of different websites and this data gets included and indexed in search engine database . Each search engine has its own algorithm to have ranking of these websites and display the search results.

2) Search Directories - has categories and subcategories for listing the websites. One can submit his website to suitable category and then it is reviewed by human editors and then they decide the listing and ranking of the website. e.g. dmoz.org , dir.yahoo.com

3) Meta search engines - This type of search engines searches the major search engines like google, yahoo , ask.com , bing etc. simulatnously at a time and displays the combined result on search engine result page (SERP) . e.g. dogpile.com

4) Specialized search engines - These are search engines for specific niche area.
e.g. to search books we have books.google.com
To search blogs we have blogsearch.google.com
To search articles we have scholar.google.com

Types of email services

Different types of email services are available like

1) Web based email service or online email service e.g. yahoo free mail service

2) POP3 email service - Post Office protocol email services can be configured in softwares like Outlook express , Eudora installed in local PC of email service user and emails can be send /received from mail boxes of this software.

3) IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol