CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "CORE INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" CLASS 9

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1. IT BASICS
CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPUTERS
USES OF COMPUTERS IN EVERYDAY LIFE
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS
HOW DOES A COMPUTER WORK? (I-P-O CYCLE)
COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM
CPU DIAGRAM
MAIN COMPONENTS OF CPU
RAM (RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY)
ROM (READ ONLY MEMORY)
THE BINARY CONCEPT
DEFINITION OF NUMBER SYSTEM
BIT, NIBBLES AND BYTE
INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES
INPUT
INPUT DEVICES
OUTPUT CONCEPTS
OUTPUT DEVICES
SOFT COPY DEVICES
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
2. MORE ABOUT IT BASICS
SECONDARY STORAGE
MAGNETIC TAPE
MAGNETIC DISK
FIXED DISK OR HARD DISK
FLOPPY DISKETTE
OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
MACHINE LANGUAGE
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE
COMPILERS
INTERPRETERS
ASSEMBLERS
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
PRE-WRITTEN SOFTWARE
APPLICATION PACKAGES
SYSTEM SOFTWARE PACKAGES
UTILITY SOFTWARE
COMPUTER NETWORKS
LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LAN)
METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK (MAN)
WIDE AREA NETWORKS (WAN)
DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE: MODEM
INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET
WHAT IS INTERNET
DATA & INFORMATION
MULTIMEDIA
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
3. WINDOWS 98
WHAT IS A WINDOW?
WINDOWS OPENING SCREEN
MOUSE USE
START MENU
SHUTTING DOWN WINDOWS
DESKTOP
ELEMENTS OF WINDOWS 98 DESKTOP
TASKBAR
USING THE TASKBAR
WINDOWS
OPENING A WINDOW
RUNNING AN APPLICATION
SWITCHING BETWEEN WINDOWS
SIZING A WINDOW
SIZING A WINDOW’S BORDER
SCROLLING WINDOWS
MOVING WINDOWS
CLOSING WINDOWS
USING MENUS
SPECIAL INDICATORS IN MENUS
CHOOSING MENU COMMANDS
USING SHORTCUT KEYS
USING SHORTCUT MENUS
DIALOG BOXES
USING WINDOWS 98 HELP
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
4. FILES AND FOLDERS
MY COMPUTER
EXPLORING YOUR COMPUTER
USING EXPLORER
CREATING A FOLDER
SELECTING FILES AND FOLDERS
OPENING AND RENAMING FILES AND FOLDERS
COPYING AND MOVING FILES AND FOLDERS
DELETING FILES AND FOLDERS
RECYCLE BIN
CUSTOMISING DESKTOP
CHANGING SYSTEM DATE & TIME
CHANGING THE BACKGROUND OF THE DESKTOP
SETTING A SCREEN SAVER
CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF WINDOWS
CHANGING SCREEN & COLOUR SETTINGS
CREATING SHORTCUTS
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
5. USING ACCESSORIES
NOTEPAD
WORDPAD
PAINT
CALCULATOR
CLIPBOARD
SYSTEM TOOLS
GAMES
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMUNICATIONS
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
6.  STARTING MS-WORD
INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSOR
WHAT IS WORD?
OFFICE APPLICATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO WORD 2000
STARTING MS-WORD
GETTING TO KNOW THE WORD SCREEN
OFFICE 2000 TOOLBARS
EXITING FROM MS-WORD
CREATING DOCUMENTS
INSERTION POINT
ENTERING TEXT
EDITING TEXT
MOVING AROUND THE DOCUMENT
SELECTING AND MOVING TEXT
EDITING TEXT WITH CUT, COPY AND PASTE
UNDO & REDO
SAVING DOCUMENTS
OPENING A DOCUMENT
OPENING AND SWITCHING BETWEEN MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
7. TEXT FORMATTING IN WORD
CHARACTER FORMATTING
FONT DIALOG BOX
INSERTING SPECIAL CHARACTERS AND SYMBOLS
CHANGING FONT COLOUR
FORMATTING PARAGRAPHS
INDENTING TEXT
TAB STOPS
PROTECTING DOCUMENTS
ADDING STYLES
ALIGNING TEXT
USING FORMAT PAINTER
TABLES IN WORD
CREATING A TABLE
FORMATTING CELLS
FORMATTING TABLES
INSERTING & DELETING ROWS AND COLUMNS
ADDING BORDERS AND SHADINGS
TABLE AUTOFORMAT
ADDING BORDERS TO TEXT
PLACING A BORDER AROUND A PAGE
ADDING SHADING TO A PARAGRAPH
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
8. PAGE LAYOUT IN WORD
INSERTING PAGE BREAKS
PAGE SETUP
PAGE ORIENTATION
PAGE LAYOUT
USING THE AUTOCORRECT FEATURE
USING FIND, REPLACE AND GO TO OPTION
VIEWING THE DOCUMENT
VIEW BUTTONS
THE NORMAL VIEW
WEB LAYOUT VIEW
PRINT LAYOUT VIEW
OUTLINE VIEW
FULL SCREEN VIEW
ZOOMING IN AND OUT ON YOUR DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT MAP VIEW
SPLITTING THE DOCUMENT WINDOW
CREATING BULLETED AND NUMBERED LISTS
PROOFING A DOCUMENT
SPELL & GRAMMAR CHECK
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
9. ENHANCING YOUR DOCUMENT
FORMATTING USING WORDART
EDITING WORDART
INSERT PICTURES USING CLIPART
ADDING HEADERS AND FOOTERS
ADDING PAGE NUMBERS
PREVIEWING AND PRINTING A DOCUMENT
PRINTING OPTIONS
MAIL MERGE
MAIN DOCUMENT
SPECIFYING DATA SOURCE
ADDING MERGE FIELDS TO MAIN DOCUMENT
MERGING DATA
WORD AND WORLD WIDE WEB
SAVING WORD DOCUMENT AS WEB PAGE
CREATING WEB SITE WITH WIZARD
CREATING WEB PAGE FROM SCRATCH
CREATING WEB PAGE FROM SCRATCH
PREVIEWING WEB PAGE
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
10.

INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT
INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH POWERPOINT?
STARTING POWERPOINT
POWERPOINT SCREEN
CLOSING A PRESENTATION
OPENING A PRESENTATION
EXITING POWERPOINT
CREATING A NEW PRESENTATION
USING THE AUTOCONTENT WIZARD
USING A TEMPLATE
CREATING BLANK PRESENTATION
DIFFERENT SLIDE LAYOUTS
SELECTING A SLIDE LAYOUT
SAVING A PRESENTATION
USING THE UNDO BUTTON
ENHANCING THE PRESENTATION
CHANGING THE TEXT FORMATS
ADDING BULLETS
ALIGNING TEXT
ADDING CLIP-ART
INSERTING CLIP FROM FILE
ADD GRAPHIC OBJECTS
SELECTING OBJECTS
GROUPING & UNGROUPING OBJECTS
BACKGROUNDS & WATERMARKS
CREATING WATERMARKS
CREATING BACKGROUNDS
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE

11. CUSTOMISING PRESENTATIONS
CHANGING SLIDE LAYOUTS
CHANGING TEMPLATES
SLIDE COLOUR SCHEME
ADDING A CHART SLIDE
EDITING A CHART
CHANGING CHART TYPE
ADDING TITLES TO A CHART
CHANGING CHART COLOURS
THE SLIDE MASTER
POWERPOINT VIEWS
MOVING FROM SLIDE TO SLIDE
REARRANGING SLIDES
INSERTING AND DELETING SLIDES
ADDING HEADERS & FOOTERS
ADDING SLIDE NUMBERS
ONSCREEN SLIDE SHOW
ANNOTATING A SLIDE SHOW
AUTOMATING A SLIDE SHOW
ANIMATING TEXT & OBJECTS
ADDING ACTION BUTTONS
CUSTOMISING THE SLIDE SHOW
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
12. INTRODUCTION TO MS-EXCEL
MS-EXCEL
WORKBOOK V/S WORKSHEET
STARTING EXCEL
GETTING TO KNOW THE EXCEL SCREEN
MOVING AROUND THE EXCEL SCREEN
EXITING EXCEL
CREATING AND ENTERING DATA IN WORKBOOKS
CREATING NEW WORKBOOKS
ENTERING DATA
ENTERING DATA INTO CELLS
SAVING A WORKBOOK
CLOSING A WORKBOOK
OPENING A WORK BOOK
CELL MANIPULATION IN WORKBOOKS
RANGE
MOVING AND DELETING CELLS
ENTERING DATA SERIES USING AUTOFILL
ENTERING FORMULAS
TOTALLING ROWS AND COLUMNS
EDITING WORKBOOKS
CUT, COPY AND PASTE
COPYING FORMULAS
ABSOLUTE, RELATIVE AND MIXED REFERENCE
AUTO COMPLETE
USING UNDO
EDITING A WORKBOOK
FUNCTIONS IN EXCEL
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
13. FORMATTING WORKSHEETS
FORMATTING WORKSHEETS
CHANGING COLUMN WIDTH
CHANGING ROW HEIGHT
INSERTING PICTURES
INSERTING CELLS AND CELL RANGES
DELETING CELL AND CELL RANGES
INSERTING ROWS AND COLUMNS
MOVING AMONG WORKSHEETS
SELECTING WORKSHEETS
INSERTING SHEETS
DELETING SHEETS
FIND AND REPLACE DATA
PERFORMING LANGUAGE CHECKS
CHARTS
INSERTING CHARTS
CHOOSING THE TYPE OF CHART
USING CHART WIZARD
VIEWING THE WORKSHEET
SPLITTING AND FREEZING A WORKSHEET
WORKING WITH PAGE SETUP
ADDING HEADERS AND FOOTERS.
PRINT
PRINT PREVIEW
PRINTING
SETTING A PRINT AREA
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
14. IT APPLICATIONS
PARTS OF A BUSINESS LETTER
WRITING REPORT ABSTRACTS
GREETING CARDS
POSTER
PRESENTATIONS
SCHOOL MAGAZINE
ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION
PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENT
TOPIC – ENGLISH
REPORT ANALYSIS – EXCEL
CRICKET SCORECARD
WEATHER REPORT
SCHOOL/CLASS RESULT
15. GLOSSARY   Updated January 2005

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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "CORE INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" CLASS 10

CH. NO.  CONTENTS  CH.  NO.  CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET
WHAT IS INTERNET
INTERNET IN EDUCATION
GETTING YOUR HANDS ON THE INFO
CATCHING THE WAVE OF THE WEB
SO WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
GETTING "HYPER" LINKED
RELATIONSHIPS
THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT
WEB TERMS
INTERNET CONNECTION
MODEM USE
GETTING ONLINE
CONNECTING TO INTERNET
INTERNET EXPLORER (IE)
DIFFERENT PARTS OF IE
COPYING, SAVING, AND PRINTING PAGES
CUSTOMIZING YOUR BROWSER
ADDING INTERNET EXPLORER FAVORITES
DISCONNECTING FROM THE INTERNET
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
2. MORE ABOUT INTERNET
NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR
USING NAVIGATOR
BOOKMARKING YOUR FAVOURITE WEB SITES
COPYING, SAVING, AND PRINTING PAGES
CUSTOMIZING YOUR BROWSER
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
WHAT'S AVAILABLE?
GOOGLE
LYCOS
YAHOO!
ALTAVISTA
EXCITE
GOOD LUCK!
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
3. E-MAIL
FEATURES OF A GOOD E-MAIL PROGRAM
EXTRA FEATURES YOU MAY ENJOY
OUTLOOK EXPRESS 5.5
STANDARD TOOLBAR
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT ADDRESS TO SEND A MAIL TO?
ADDRESS BOOK
WRITING MESSAGES
SENDING MESSAGES USING ADDRESS BOOK
RECEIVING MAILS
CHECKING/VIEWING
SENDING MESSAGE TO MORE THAN ONE PERSON
SENDING ATTACHED FILES
FILE IT OR PRINT IT
WRITING BACK: REPLYING TO A MESSAGE
DELETING
WEB BASED E-MAIL
HYPERLINK
E-MAIL
WATCH OUT FOR. . .
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
4. DOWNLOADING FILES
GETTING SOFTWARE ON THE WEB
WEB SITES CONTAINING FREEWARE AND SHAREWARE
DOWNLOADING FILES
PUBLISHING WEB PAGES & UPLOADING FILES
FREE WEB SPACE
MANAGING FILES ON YOUR WEB SITE
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
5. ACCESS
INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS 2000
WHAT IS ACCESS
WHAT IS DATA
WHAT IS DBMS
HOW ACCESS STORES DATA
STORING DATA IN TABLES
ENTERING DATA INTO FORMS
FORMATTING DATA INTO REPORTS
HOW PARTS FIT TOGETHER
PLANNING FOR DATABASE
TABLES NEEDED
STARTING ACCESS
OTHER WAYS TO START ACCESS
OPENING A DATABASE WINDOW.
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE WINDOW
GETTING TO KNOW THE ACCESS SCREEN
SAVING AND CLOSING A DATABASE FILE
EXITING ACCESS
USING THE DATABASE WIZARD
WORKING WITH TABLES
OBJECTS
ADDING TABLES TO A DATABASE
FIELDS IN TABLES
FIELDS TYPES
SETTING FIELD PROPERTIES
ADDING FIELDS
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
6. RELATIONSHIPS & DATA VALIDATION IN ACCESS
RELATIONSHIPS
CREATING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TABLES
ENFORCING REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY
EDITING A RELATIONSHIP
REMOVING A RELATIONSHIP
DATA VALIDATION
FIELDSIZE PROPERTY
DEFAULTVALUE PROPERTY
VALIDATIONRULE, VALIDATIONTEXT PROPERTIES
REQUIRED VALIDATION PROPERTY
ALLOWZEROLENGTH PROPERTY
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
7. DATASHEETS, QUERIES & REPORTS
SWITCHING BETWEEN DESIGN AND DATASHEET VIEWS
WORKING WITH DATASHEETS
ENTERING DATA
MOVING BETWEEN RECORDS AND FIELDS
USING GO TO
UPDATING RECORDS
MANIPULATING RECORDS
SELECTING FIELDS AND RECORDS
FINDING RECORDS
CHANGING COLUMN WIDTH
ADDING AND SORTING RECORDS
SAVING A DATASHEET
EXITING DATASHEET VIEW
USING FORMS
WHAT IS A FORM
USING AN AUTOFORM
FORM WIZARD
QUERIES IN TABLES
SETTING A PRIMARY KEY
SAVING A TABLE
CLOSING A TABLE
CREATING A QUERY
CREATING REPORTS
WHAT IS A REPORT?
DESIGNING A REPORT
AUTOREPORT
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
8. HTML
WHAT IS HTML?
HTML’s GOAL
HTML TAGS
START AND END TAGS
TAG ATTRIBUTES
VIEWING HTML PAGE IN BROWSER
HTML ELEMENTS
HTML BASIC STRUCTURE
DEFINING HTML DOCUMENTS WITH HTML ELEMENT
DESCRIBING DOCUMENTS WITH HEAD ELEMENT
NAMING DOCUMENTS WITH TITLE ELEMENT
WRAPPING CONTENT WITH BODY ELEMENT
TWO CATEGORIES OF BODY ELEMENTS
BLOCK LEVEL ELEMENTS
TEXT LEVEL ELEMENTS
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
9. CREATING HTML PAGES
CREATING FIRST REAL HTML PAGE
UNDERSTANDING HEADINGS
NESTING BOLD AND ITALICS
BREAKING LINES WITH <BR>
HORIZONTAL RULE
IMAGE
UNDERSTANDING PARAGRAPH BREAKS
CENTRING TEXT WITH CENTER ELEMENT
LINKING TO WEBSITES WITH ANCHOR
VIEWING PAGES IN DIFFERENT BROWSERS
VIEWING THE HTML SOURCE
HTML’s NESTING RULES
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
10.  MORE HTML ELEMENTS
ARRANGING HTML TAGS
HTML’s RULES OF WHITE SPACE
USING COMMENTS
NON-BREAKING SPACE
CHANGING COLOUR SCHEME WITH BODY ELEMENT ATTRIBUTES
SPECIFYING COLOURS
SPECIFYING BACKGROUND COLOUR WITH BGCOLOR
BACKGROUND ATTRIBUTE
TEXT ATTRIBUTE
LINK ATTRIBUTE
VLINK ATTRIBUTE
ALINK ATTRIBUTE
PAGE MARGINS
FONT ELEMENT
COLOUR ATTRIBUTE
SIZE ATTRIBUTE
FACE ATTRIBUTE
COMBINING FONT ATTRIBUTES
MORE ADVANCED HTML PAGE
VIEWING THE EXAMPLE PAGE WITH IE
EDITING TECHNOLOGY.HTML
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
11. FORMATTING BODY SECTION
BLOCK LEVEL ELEMENTS
HEADING ELEMENTS
PARAGRAPH ALIGNMENTS
HORIZONTAL RULE ELEMENT
IE’s EXTENSION FOR COLOURED RULES
ORGANISING TEXT WITH LISTS
ORDERED LISTS
TEXT-LEVEL ELEMENTS
BASEFONT ELEMENT
LINE-BREAK ELEMENT
FONT-STYLE ELEMENTS
BOLD ELEMENT
ITALICS ELEMENT
UNDERLINE ELEMENT
STRIKE ELEMENT
SUBSCRIPT ELEMENT
SUPERSCRIPT ELEMENT
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
12. LINKING TO WEB PAGES
CREATING EXTERNAL LINK
USING HREF ATTRIBUTE & ANCHOR TEXT
TITLE ATTRIBUTE
NAME ATTRIBUTE
USING ANCHOR WITH OTHER HTML ELEMENTS
CREATING INTERNAL LINK
ABSOLUTE URL’s
RELATIVE URL’s
RELATIVE URL’s WITH DIFFERENT DIRECTORIES
NAMED ANCHOR ELEMENTS WITH RELATIVE URLs
LINKING TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF SAME DOCUMENT
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
13. PROCESSING IMAGES
IMAGE ELEMENT
IMAGE ELEMENT ATTRIBUTES
ALTERNATE TEXT ATTRIBUTE
ALIGNMENT ATTRIBUTES
ALIGNING INLINE IMAGES
FLOATING IMAGES
WIDTH & HEIGHT ATTRIBUTES
SCALING IMAGES WITH WIDTH & HEIGHT ATTRIBUTES
USING IMAGES AS LINKS
WORKING WITH IMAGE FILES
WEBSITES TO VISIT
TEACHERS NOTES
EXERCISE
14. IT APPLICATIONS
ACCESS
CONTACT MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY CONTROL
PAYROLL
HTML
TRAVEL & TOURISM
RURAL INDIA
ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION
15. LATEST SOLVED SPECIMEN PAPER 16. SAMPLE TEST PAPERS
17. GLOSSARY   Updated December 2007

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