TERM 1:

Unit I: Computer Systems and Organisation

● Basic Computer Organisation: Introduction to computer system, hardware, software, input device,
output device, CPU, memory (primary, cache and secondary), units of memory (Bit, Byte, KB, MB,
GB, TB, PB)
● Types of software: system software (operating systems, system utilities, device drivers),
programming tools and language translators (assembler, compiler & interpreter), application
software
● Operating system (OS): functions of operating system, OS user interface
● Boolean logic: NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, truth table, De Morgan’s laws and logic circuits
● Number system: Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal number system; conversion between
number systems.
● Encoding schemes: ASCII, ISCII and UNICODE (UTF8, UTF32)
Unit II: Computational Thinking and Programming – 1
● Introduction to problem solving: Steps for problem solving (analysing the problem, developing an
algorithm, coding, testing and debugging). representation of algorithms using flow chart and
pseudo code, decomposition
● Familiarization with the basics of Python programming: Introduction to Python, features of Python,
executing a simple “hello world” program, execution modes: interactive mode and script mode,
Python character set, Python tokens (keyword, identifier, literal, operator, punctuator), variables,
concept of l-value and r-value, use of comments
● Knowledge of data types: number (integer, floating point, complex), boolean, sequence (string,
list, tuple), none, mapping (dictionary), mutable and immutable data types
● Operators: arithmetic operators, relational operators, logical operators, assignment operator,
augmented assignment operators, identity operators (is, is not), membership operators (in, not in)
● Expressions, statement, type conversion & input/output: precedence of operators, expression,
evaluation of expression, python statement, type conversion (explicit & implicit conversion),
accepting data as input from the console and displaying output
● Errors: syntax errors, logical errors, runtime errors
● Flow of control: introduction, use of indentation, sequential flow, conditional and iterative flow
control
● Conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif-else, flowcharts, simple programs: e.g.: absolute value,
sort 3 numbers and divisibility of a number
● Iterative statements: for loop, range function, while loop, flowcharts, break and continue
statements, nested loops, suggested programs: generating pattern, summation of series, finding
the factorial of a positive number etc
● Strings: introduction, indexing, string operations (concatenation, repetition, membership &
slicing), traversing a string using loops, built-in functions: len(), capitalize(), title(), lower(), upper(),
count(), find(), index(), endswith(), startswith(), isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(), islower(), isupper(),
isspace(), lstrip(), rstrip(), strip(), replace(), join(), partition(), split()

TERM 2:

Unit II: Computational Thinking and Programming – 1

● Lists: introduction, indexing, list operations (concatenation, repetition, membership & slicing),
traversing a list using loops, built-in functions: len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(), count(),
index(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); nested lists, suggested
programs: finding the maximum, minimum, mean of numeric values stored in a list; linear search
on list of numbers and counting the frequency of elements in a list
● Tuple: introduction, indexing, tuple operations (concatenation, repetition, membership & slicing),
built-in functions: len(), tuple(), count(), index(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); tuple assignment,
nested tuple, suggested programs: finding the minimum, maximum, mean of values stored in a
tuple; linear search on a tuple of numbers, counting the frequency of elements in a tuple
● Dictionary: introduction, accessing items in a dictionary using keys, mutability of dictionary (adding
a new item, modifying an existing item), traversing a dictionary, built-in functions: len(), dict(),
keys(), values(), items(), get(), update(), del(), clear(), fromkeys(), copy(), pop(), popitem(),
setdefault(), max(), min(), count(), sorted(), copy(); suggested programs : count the number of
times a character appears in a given string using a dictionary, create a dictionary with names of
employees, their salary and access them
● Introduction to Python modules: Importing module using ‘import ‘ and using from
statement, Importing math module (pi, e, sqrt, ceil, floor, pow, fabs, sin, cos, tan); random module
(random, randint, randrange), statistics module (mean, median, mode)
Unit III: Society, Law and Ethics
● Digital Footprints
● Digital society and Netizen: net etiquettes, communication etiquettes, social media etiquettes
● Data protection: Intellectual Property Right (copyright, patent, trademark), violation of IPR
(plagiarism, copyright infringement, trademark infringement), open source softwares and
licensing (Creative Commons, GPL and Apache)
● Cyber-crime: definition, hacking, eavesdropping, phishing and fraud emails, ransomware,
preventing cyber crime
● Cyber safety: safely browsing the web, identity protection, confidentiality, cyber trolls and
bullying.
● Safely accessing web sites: malware, viruses, Trojans, adware
● E-waste management: proper disposal of used electronic gadgets
● Indian Information Technology Act (IT Act)
● Technology & Society: Gender and disability issues while teaching and using computers