CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 6, 2001 Edition

CH. NO.  CONTENTS CH. NO.   CONTENTS
1. COMPUTER CONCEPTS
E.D.P. CONCEPTS
DATA PROCESSING CYCLE
INFORMATION
CHARACTERISTICS OF A COMPUTER
SPEED
ACCURACY
STORAGE
VERSATILITY
AUTOMATION
DILIGENCE
COMPUTER CLASSIFICATIONS
MICROCOMPUTER
MINICOMPUTERS
MAINFRAME COMPUTER
SUPERCOMPUTER
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS
EDUCATION
INDUSTRIES
BANKING SECTOR
HOSPITALS
TRANSPORTATION
INSURANCE
SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND CLIMATE
BUSINESS (PREPARING PAY ROLLS)
COMMUNICATIONS
ENTERTAINMENT
2. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGIN OF CALCULATING MACHINES
ABACUS
NAPIER’S BONES 
PASCAL’S ARITHMETIC MACHINE
LEIBNITZ’S CALCULATOR
JACQUARD’S LOOM
BABBAGE’S DIFFERENCE ENGINE
BABBAGE’S ANALYTICAL ENGINE
LADY ADA LOVE LACE
HERMAN HOLLERINTH’S TABULATING MACHINE
PUNCHED CARD
HARVARD MARK I
ENIAC  
UNIVAC
3. MILESTONES IN COMPUTING
COMPUTER GENERATIONS
FIRST GENERATION COMPUTERS
SECOND GENERATION COMPUTERS
THIRD GENERATION COMPUTERS
FOURTH GENERATION COMPUTERS
COMPARISON BETWEEN GENERATIONS OF COMPUTERS
FIFTH GENERATION COMPUTERS

 

4. WINDOWS 98
INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS 98
WHY WAS IT NAMED WINDOWS?
WHAT IS A WINDOW
ABOUT WINDOWS 98
STARTING WINDOWS
DESKTOP          
START BUTTON
START MENU
ICONS
MENUS
MOUSE USE
POINTING
CLICKING
DOUBLE CLICKING
DRAGGING
SELECTING
MAXIMIZE & MINIMIZE
RESIZING WINDOWS
MOVING AND SCROLLING WINDOWS
SCROLL BARS
SCROLL BOXES
SCROLL BUTTONS
ACTIVE WINDOW
SELECTING MENU COMMANDS
DIALOG BOXES
USING YOUR DESKTOP
EXPLORING YOUR COMPUTER
NETWORK NEIGHBOURHOOD
MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS
CREATING FOLDERS
OPENING AND RENAMING FILES AND FOLDERS
CUSTOMIZING YOUR DESKTOP
CHOOSING A DESKTOP
5. PAINTBRUSH AND WORDPAD
INTRODUCTION TO PAINTBRUSH
TOOLBOX
PALETTE
LINE TOOL
CURVE TOOL
RECTANGLE TOOL
BRUSH TOOL
WORDPAD
STARTING WORDPAD
FILE MENU
SAVING AND MODIFYING YOUR WORK
OPENING AND MODIFYING
CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF TEXT
FORMATTING AND EDITING YOUR TEXT
EDIT MENU
VIEW MENU
INSERT MENU
FORMAT MENU
HELP MENU
6.  ANATOMY OF A COMPUTER AND BASIC STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS
MOTHER BOARD
CABINET
FLOPPY DISK
MICRO-PROCESSOR
HARD DISK DRIVES
THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU)
KEYBOARD
MOUSE
OUTPUT DEVICES
VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT
DOT MATRIX PRINTER
SECONDARY STORAGE
COMPACT DISK
COMPUTER MEMORY (RAM, ROM)
RAM
ROM
7. OVERVIEW OF DOS AND INTRODUCTION TO BASIC
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COMMANDS
DISK OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDS
DATE
TIME
VER
VOL
CLS
TYPE
DEL
REN
DIR
COPY
FORMAT
DISKCOPY
SYS
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC
STATEMENTS IN BASIC
BASIC CHARACTER SET
OPERATORS
ARITHMETIC OPERATORS
RELATIONAL OPERATORS
LOGICAL OPERATORS
IDEA REGARDING COMPUTER LANGUAGES
LOW LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
HIGH LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
INTRODUCTION TO FLOWCHARTING
SYMBOLS USED IN FLOWCHARTS
INPUT/OUTPUT SYMBOLS
FLOWLINES
PROCESSING SYMBOL
DECISION SYMBOL
CONNECTOR SYMBOL
PREPARE/INITIALIZE
EXAMPLES
CONSTANTS
NUMERIC CONSTANTS
ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING CONSTANTS
VARIABLES
NUMERIC VARIABLES
ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING
VARIABLES
8. BASIC COMMANDS AND STATEMENTS
COMMANDS
AUTO
NEW
CLS
LIST
FILES
LLIST
CONT
TRON
TROFF
SYSTEM
RUN
LOAD
SAVE
STATEMENTS
REM STATEMENT
STOP STATEMENT
END STATEMENT
LET STATEMENT
INPUT STATEMENT
PRINT STATEMENT
PRINT CONTROL
COMMA CONTROL
THE SEMICOLON CONTROL (;)
PRINT WITH CONSTANTS , VARIABLES AND EXPRESSIONS

 

9. FUN WITH GRAPHICS
INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHICS
SCREEN & COLOR COMMAND
KEY OFF STATEMENT
PSET STATEMENT
LINE STATEMENT
DRAWING BOXES
CIRCLE
PAINTING AN AREA
DRAW STATEMENT
U, D, L, R, E, F, G, H
10.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES
ROCKET LAUNCHING
DESK TOP PUBLISHING (DTP)
OFFICE AUTOMATION
VIRTUAL REALITY
COMPUTER GAMES
NOTEBOOK COMPUTER
MULTIMEDIA
ROBOTICS
INTERNET


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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 7, 2001 Edition

CH. NO.  CONTENTS  CH.  NO.  CONTENTS
1. LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN COMPUTERS
EMAIL
CAD
CAI
CAL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
VIDEO CONFERENCING
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA COMMUNICATIONS
LAN & WAN
LAN
SERVER
WORK STATIONS
NETWORK INTERFACE UNIT
COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL
WAN
INTERNET
INTRANET
MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

 

2. MICROSOFT WORD 97
INTRODUCTION TO WORD 97
WHAT IS WORD?
STARTING WORD
GETTING TO KNOW THE WORD SCREEN
TITLE BAR
MENU BAR
TOOLBARS
STANDARD TOOLBAR
FORMATTING TOOLBAR
STATUS BAR
SCROLL BARS
RULER
WORKSPACE
CHANGING VIEWS
NORMAL VIEW
ONLINE LAYOUT VIEW
PAGE LAYOUT VIEW
OUTLINE VIEW
CREATING DOCUMENTS
SAVING DOCUMENTS
USING HELP
EXITING WORD
CREATING AND EDITING TEXT
OPENING A DOCUMENT
SELECTING AND MOVING TEXT
SELECTING TEXT
MOVING TEXT
EDITING TEXT WITH CUT, COPY AND PASTE
USING THE UNDO COMMAND
USING FIND, REPLACE AND GO TO
3. FORMATTING TEXT
FONT LEVEL FORMATTING
ALIGNING TEXT
WORKING WITH TABS
INDENTS AND SPACING
USING THE HYPHENATION TOOL
TABLES AND PRINTING
CREATING A TABLE
FORMATTING CELLS
USING BORDERS AND SHADINGS IN TABLES
USING PRINT PREVIEW
PRINTING OPTIONS
4. COMPUTER CODE AND BINARY ARITHMETIC
THE BINARY CONCEPT
DEFINITION OF NUMBER SYSTEM
DECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM
BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM
SIMPLE CONVERSIONS FROM DECIMAL
DECIMAL TO BINARY
BINARY TO DECIMAL
BIT, NIBBLES AND BYTE
WORD LENGTH
5. COMPUTER TERMINOLOGIES
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
MACHINE LANGUAGE
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE
COMPILERS
INTERPRETERS
ASSEMBLERS
PROCEDURAL AND NON PROCEDURAL LANGUAGES
SOME HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES
FORTRAN
COBOL
BASIC
PASCAL
6. PROBLEM SOLVING BY COMPUTERS
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
ALGORITHMS
SYMBOLS USED IN ALGORITHM
SEQUENCE
SELECTION
REPETITION
ITERATION
LOOPING
PSEUDOCODE
FLOW CHART
SYMBOLS USED IN FLOWCHARTS
INPUT/OUTPUT SYMBOLS
FLOWLINES
PROCESSING SYMBOL
DECISION SYMBOL
CONNECTOR SYMBOL
PREPARE/INITIALIZE
ADVANTAGES OF FLOWCHART
LIMITATIONS OF FLOWCHARTS
FLOWCHART TECHNIQUES FOR TAKING DECISIONS
7. BASIC ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS
HIERARCHY OF OPERATIONS
RULES FOR A BASIC PROGRAM
USE OF PARENTHESIS
EXPONENTIATION
USE OF COMMA (,)
USE OF SEMICOLON (;)
REVIEW-CONSTANTS – NUMERIC AND ALPHANUMERIC
NUMERIC CONSTANTS
ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING CONSTANTS:
VARIABLES
NUMERIC VARIABLES
ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING VARIABLES
COMMANDS
AUTO
NEW
CLS
LIST
FILES
LLIST
CONT
TRON
TROFF
SYSTEM
RUN
LOAD
SAVE
8.  PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAM WRITING
PROGRAM FORMAT
RULES FOR A BASIC PROGRAM
RULES FOR WRITING STATEMENTS
DEBUGGING
DESK CHECKING
TRANSLATOR SYSTEM CHECKING
ASSIGNMENT STATEMENT
LET STATEMENT
INPUT-OUTPUT STATEMENTS
PRINT STATEMENT
INPUT STATEMENT
READ - DATA STATEMENT, RESTORE STATEMENT
TRANSFER OF CONTROL STATEMENT
THE GOTO STATEMENT
LOOP CONTROL
9. INTRODUCTION TO COUNTERS AND ACCUMULATORS
THE CONTROL STATEMENT
THE UNCONDITIONAL BRANCHING: THE GOTO STATEMENT
LOOP CONTROL
COUNTERS AND ACCUMULATORS
IF…THEN & GOTO CONTROL STATEMENT
IF….THEN….ELSE
IF…THEN WITH COUNTERS
IF….THEN WITH ACCUMULATORS
EXAMPLES
10.  INTRODUCTION TO LOOPING
THE FOR….NEXT LOOP
RULES FOR CONSTRUCTING FOR…NEXT LOOPS
COMPARISON OF IF…THEN AND FOR…NEXT
PROGRAMS – FOR…NEXT STATEMENT
EXAMPLES

 

11. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SMART CARD
DESIGN ANIMATION
TELE-COMMUNICATION
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
COMPUTER AIDED TESTING
VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
NETWORKING
MORPHING
   

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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 8, 2001 Edition

CH. NO.  CONTENTS  CH. NO.   CONTENTS
1.

INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL 97
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS EXCEL
STARTING EXCEL
OPENING A WORKBOOK
GETTING TO KNOW THE EXCEL SCREEN
TITLE BAR
TOOLBARS
MENU BAR
STATUS BAR
SCROLL BAR
FORMULA BAR
MOVING AROUND THE EXCEL SCREEN
CELL AND CELL ADDRESS
NAME BOX
SAVING A WORKBOOK
CLOSING A WORKBOOK
OPENING A RECENTLY USED WORKBOOK
GETTING HELP WITH OFFICE ASSISTANT
USING THE HELP MENU
EXITING EXCEL  

2.

CREATING AND EDITING WORKBOOKS
CREATING NEW WORKBOOKS
OPENING NEW WORKSHEETS
ENTERING DATA
TYPES OF DATA
TEXT
NUMBER
LOGICAL
ERROR
ENTERING DATA INTO CELLS
ENTERING NUMBERS
ENTERING NUMBERS AS TEXT
ENTERING DATES AND TIME
EDITING A CELL
INTRODUCTION TO FORMULAS
TOTALING ROWS AND COLUMNS
ABSOLUTE, RELATIVE & MIXED REFERENCE
WORKING WITH AUTO COMPLETE
SELECTING, MOVING AND DELETING CELLS
SELECTING CELLS
MOVING CELLS
DELETING CELLS
CUT, COPY AND PASTE
COPYING FORMULAS
USING UNDO
FIND AND REPLACE
REPLACE
FORMATTING WORKBOOKS
ADJUSTING COLUMN AND ROW SIZES
ADJUSTING COLUMN SIZE
ADJUSTING ROW SIZE
CHANGING CELL ALIGNMENT
USING NUMBER FORMATTING
FORMATTING TEXT
USING STYLES AND AUTOFORMATTING
AUTOFORMATTING
SPELL CHECKER
WORKING WITH AUTO CORRECT

3. VIEWING, DRAWING & PRINTING
VIEWING THE WORKSHEET
ZOOM
FULL SCREEN VIEW
SPLITTING & FREEZING A WORKSHEET
SPLITTING
FREEZING
USING DRAWING TOOLS
ADDING HEADERS AND FOOTERS
WORKING WITH PAGE SETUP
SETTING MARGINS
SETTING A PRINT AREA
USING PRINT PREVIEW & PRINTING
PRINT PREVIEW 
PRINTING
4.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 97
INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT
WHAT IS POWERPOINT?
STARTING POWERPOINT
OPENING A PRESENTATION
POWERPOINT SCREEN
TITLE BAR
MENU BAR
STATUS BAR
TOOLBARS
SCROLL BAR
POWERPOINT VIEWS
SLIDE VIEW
OUTLINE VIEW
SLIDE SORTER VIEW
NOTES PAGE VIEW
SLIDE SHOW BUTTON
MOVING BETWEEN SLIDES
SAVING AND CLOSING A PRESENTATION
OPENING A RECENTLY USED PRESENTATION
GETTING HELP USING THE OFFICE ASSISTANT
EXITING POWERPOINT
CREATING A PRESENTATION
CREATING A NEW PRESENTATION
USING THE AUTOCONTENT WIZARD
CHANGING THE TEXT FORMATS
ADDING BULLETS
SETTING AND CLEARING TABS
ALIGNING TEXT
USING THE FORMAT PAINTER

5.

CUSTOMIZING PRESENTATIONS
USING TEMPLATES  
SELECTING A SLIDE LAYOUT
PROMOTING AND DEMOTING TEXT
USING THE UNDO BUTTON
CHANGING SLIDE LAYOUTS
ADDING CLIP-ART TO YOUR
PRESENTATION
CHANGING TEMPLATES
THE SLIDE MASTER
CHARTS AND DRAWINGS
ADDING A CHART SLIDE
EDITING A CHART
CUSTOMIZING A CHART
ADDING TITLES TO A CHART
CHART TITLE ALIGNMENT
CHANGING CHART COLOURS  

6. 

MICROSOFT ACCESS 97
INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS 97
WHAT IS ACCESS
WHAT IS DATA
STARTING ACCESS
OPENING A DATABASE FILE
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE WINDOW
GETTING TO KNOW THE EXCEL SCREEN
TITLE BAR
MENU BAR
TOOLBARS
SAVING AND CLOSING A DATABASE FILE
SAVING
CLOSING
USING THE HELP MENU
OFFICE ASSISTANT
HELP MENU
EXITING ACCESS
WORKING WITH DATABASES
USING THE DATABASE WIZARD
WHAT IS A DATABASE?
WORKING WITH TABLES
CREATING A NEW DATABASE
OBJECTS
ADDING TABLES TO A DATABASE
ADDING FIELDS TO TABLES
FIELDS AND RECORDS
SETTING FIELD PROPERTIES
ADDING FIELDS
WORKING WITH DATASHEETS
ENTERING DATA
MOVING BETWEEN RECORDS & FIELDS
USING GO TO
UPDATING RECORDS
SELECTING ROWS AND COLUMNS
FINDING RECORDS
CHANGING COLUMN WIDTH
ADDING AND SORTING RECORDS
ADDING RECORDS
SORTING RECORDS
SAVING A DATASHEET
EXITING DATASHEET VIEW  

7.

BASIC ARITHMETIC STATEMENTS
ARITHMETIC OPERATORS
HIERARCHY OF OPERATIONS
RULES FOR A BASIC PROGRAM
USE OF PARENTHESIS
INTEGER DIVISION
STATEMENTS IN BASIC
ASSIGNMENT STATEMENT
LET STATEMENT
VARIABLE COUNTER TECHNIQUE
WRITING STATEMENTS
RULES FOR WRITING ARITHMETIC EXPRESSIONS
PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES
THE PROGRAMMING PROCESS
PROBLEM UNDERSTANDING & DEFINING A PROBLEM
PROGRAM DESIGN
DESIGNING A SOLUTION
DOCUMENTATION
PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATIONS
ALGORITHMS
SYMBOLS USED IN ALGORITHMS
ADVANCED FLOWCHARTING TECHNIQUES
SYMBOLS USED IN FLOWCHARTS
INPUT/OUTPUT SYMBOLS
FLOWLINES
PROCESSING SYMBOL
DECISION SYMBOL
CONNECTOR SYMBOL
PREPARE/INITIALIZE
EXAMPLES  

8.

BASIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
MODES OF BASIC OPERATION
PRINTING PROMPTS FOR THE USER
INPUT STATEMENT
OUTPUTTING THE DATA
PRINT STATEMENT
PRINT CONTROL
FORMATTING THE OUTPUT: COMMA CONTROL
MAKING TABLES: THE TAB FUNCTION
PRINT USING STATEMENT
OUTPUT OF NUMERIC VALUES
THE # CHARACTER
THE . CHARACTER
THE , CHARACTER
THE + CHARACTER
OUTPUT OF STRING VALUES
THE CONTROL STATEMENTS
THE STOP STATEMENT
THE UNCONDITIONAL TRANSFER: THE GOTO STATEMENT
LOOP CONTROL
IF….THEN & GOTO CONTROL STATEMENT
IF…THEN…..ELSE
THE FOR….NEXT LOOP
SERIES PROGRAMS – FOR….NEXT STATEMENT
EXAMPLES  

9.

 FUNCTIONS AND STRING MANIPULATION  
FUNCTIONS AND THEIR TYPES
MATHEMATICAL (OR NUMERIC FUNCTIONS)
SQR FUNCTION
INT FUNCTION
ABS FUNCTION
MOD FUNCTION
CINT FUNCTION
SGN FUNCTION
FIX FUNCTION
EXP FUNCTION
ASC FUNCTION
CHR$ FUNCTION
STRING MANIPULATORS
LEFT$
RIGHT$
MID$
VAL
STR$
LEN
ELEMENTARY PROGRAM EXAMPLES USING STRING MANIPULATORS
EXAMPLE PROGRAMS  

 

 


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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 9, 2001 Edition

CH. NO.  CONTENTS  CH. NO.   CONTENTS
1.

COMPUTER CONCEPTS
EDP CONCEPTS
DATA PROCESSING CYCLE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A COMPUTER
SPEED
ACCURACY
STORAGE
VERSATILITY
AUTOMATION
DILIGENCE
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
EDUCATION
INDUSTRIES
BANKING SECTOR
MEDICINES
TRANSPORTATION
INSURANCE
SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND CLIMATE
PREPARING PAY ROLLS
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER CLASSIFICATIONS
TYPES
ANALOG COMPUTER
DIGITAL COMPUTER
HYBRID COMPUTER
PURPOSE
GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS
SPECIAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS
CAPACITY
MICROCOMPUTER
MINICOMPUTER
MAINFRAME COMPUTER
SUPER COMPUTER
HISTORY AND GENERATION OF COMPUTERS
INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGIN OF CALCULATING MACHINES
ABACUS
NAPIER’S BONES
SLIDE RULE
PASCAL’S ARITHMETIC MACHINE
LEIBNITZ’S STEPPED RECKONER
BABBAGE’S DIFFERENCE ENGINE
BABBAGE’S ANALYTICAL ENGINE
DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTER
COMPUTER GENERATIONS
COMPARISON BETWEEN GENERATIONS OF COMPUTERS
SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN ELECTRONICS THAT LED TO MODERN DIGITAL COMPUTER
PUNCHED CARD
HARVARD MARK I
ENIAC
EDVAC
EDSAC

2.

WINDOWS 98
INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS 98
WHAT IS A WINDOW
ABOUT WINDOWS 98
STARTING WINDOWS
DESKTOP
START BUTTON
START MENU
ICONS
MENUS
MOUSE USE
MAXIMIZE AND MINIMIZE
RESIZING WINDOWS
MOVING AND SCROLLING WINDOWS
ACTIVE WINDOW
SELECTING MENU COMMANDS
SPECIAL INDICATORS IN MENUS
DIALOG BOXES
USING YOUR DESKTOP
EXPLORING YOUR COMPUTER
WORKING WITH PROGRAMS
MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS
CREATING FOLDERS
FINDING FILES AND FOLDERS
OPENING AND RENAMING FILES AND FOLDERS
COPYING AND MOVING FILES AND FOLDERS
CUSTOMIZING YOUR DESKTOP
CHOOSING A DESKTOP
ADDING BROWSING TOOLS
ADVANCED FEATURES IN WINDOWS 98
INTRODUCTION TO PAINTBRUSH
TOOLBOX
PALETTE
LINE TOOL
CURVE TOOL
RECTANGLE TOOL
BRUSH TOOL

3.

MICROSOFT WORD 97                
INTRODUCTION TO WORD 97
WHAT IS WORD?
STARTING WORD
GETTING TO KNOW THE WORD SCREEN
TITLE BAR
MENU BAR
TOOLBARS
STATUS BAR
SCROLL BARS
RULER
WORKSPACE
CHANGING VIEWS
NORMAL VIEW
ONLINE LAYOUT VIEW
PAGE LAYOUT VIEW
OUTLINE VIEW
CREATING DOCUMENTS
SAVING DOCUMENTS
USING HELP
EXITING WORD
CREATING AND EDITING TEXT
OPENING A DOCUMENT
SELECTING AND MOVING TEXT
EDITING TEXT WITH CUT, COPY & PASTE
USING THE UNDO COMMAND
CORRECTING SPELLING AND GRAMMAR
AUTOMATING TYPING USING AUTOCORRECT
USING FIND, REPLACE & GO TO  

4.

FORMATTING TEXT
FONT LEVEL FORMATTING CHARACTER FORMATTING STYLES CHANGING FONT & FONT SIZE
APPLYING COLOUR
ALIGNING TEXT
WORKING WITH TABS
INDENTS AND SPACING
USING THE HYPHENATION TOOL
ADDING STYLES
SPECIAL FORMATTING COMMANDS LINE AND PAGE BREAKS
INSERTING NUMBERS AND BULLETS TABLES AND PRINTING
CREATING A TABLE
FORMATTING CELLS
ALIGNMENT IN TABLES
SETTING INDENTS IN TABLES
FORMATTING AND DELETING TABLES USING BORDERS AND SHADINGS IN TABLES
PRINTING OPTIONS
PRINTING  

5.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 97
INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT WHAT IS POWERPOINT?
STARTING POWERPOINT
OPENING A PRESENTATION POWERPOINT SCREEN
TITLE BAR
MENU BAR
STATUS BAR
TOOLBARS
SCROLL BAR
POWERPOINT VIEWS
SLIDE VIEW
OUTLINE VIEW
SLIDE SORTER VIEW
NOTES PAGE VIEW
SLIDE SHOW BUTTON
MOVING BETWEEN SLIDES
SAVING AND CLOSING A PRESENTATION
OPENING A RECENTLY USED PRESENTATION
GETTING HELP USING THE OFFICE ASSISTANT
EXITING POWERPOINT
CREATING A PRESENTATION
CREATING A NEW PRESENTATION USING THE AUTOCONTENT WIZARD CHANGING THE TEXT FORMATS ADDING BULLETS SETTING AND CLEARING TABS
ALIGNING TEXT
USING THE FORMAT PAINTER  

6. 

CUSTOMIZING PRESENTATIONS
USING TEMPLATES
SELECTING A SLIDE LAYOUT PROMOTING AND DEMOTING TEXT
USING THE UNDO BUTTON CHANGING SLIDE LAYOUTS ADDING CLIP-ART TO YOUR PRESENTATION
CHANGING TEMPLATES
THE SLIDE MASTER
CHARTS AND DRAWINGS ADDING A CHART SLIDE EDITING A CHART CUSTOMIZING A CHART ADDING TITLES TO A CHART
CHART TITLE ALIGNMENT CHANGING CHART COLOURS  

7.

BASIC COMPUTER ORGANISATION
THE PUNCH CARD
CONSOLE KEYBOARDS
BAR CODES
MAGNETIC INK CHARACTER READER TOUCH SCREEN
LIGHT PEN
MOUSE
THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC UNIT CONTROL UNIT
MEMORY
RAM
ROM
PROM
EPROM
EEPROM
OUTPUT DEVICES
VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT
LINE PRINTER
DAISY WHEEL PRINTER
DOT MATRIX PRINTER
MASS STORAGE UNITS
MAGNETIC TAPES
HARD DISK DRIVES
WINCHESTER DRIVES
FLOPPY DISK
TAPE CARTRIDGES
OPTICAL DISK  

8.

MS-DOS
MS-DOS COMMANDS
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COMMANDS
DISK MANAGEMENT COMMANDS
FORMAT
DISKCOPY
DISKCOMP
CHKDSK
DIRECTORY HANDLING COMMANDS
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF FILES
COMMANDS
MKDIR
CHDIR
RMDIR
TREE
PROGRAMMING DESIGN AND PROBLEM SOLVING
PROGRAMMING
STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
MODULAR (TOP DOWN) PROGRAM DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD PROGRAM
PROBLEM ANALYSIS AND DEFINITION
PROGRAM DESIGN & CODING
DEBUGGING AND TESTING DOCUMENTATION & MAINTENANCE  

9.

PROGRAMMING IN BASIC
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC STATEMENTS IN BASIC
CHARACTER SET
CONSTANTS – NUMERIC AND ALPHANUMERIC
NUMERIC CONSTANTS ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING CONSTANTS
VARIABLES
NUMERIC VARIABLES ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING VARIABLES
EXPRESSIONS – NUMERIC & ALPHABETIC
OPERATORS
ARITHMETIC OPERATORS
RELATIVE OPERATORS
LOGICAL OPERATORS
STRING OPERATORS
SYSTEM COMMANDS
AUTO
CONT
DELETE
EDIT
LIST
LOAD
NAME
KILL
NEW
MERGE
RENUM
RESET
RUN
SAVE
SYSTEM
TRON
TROFF
ALGORITHMS
SYMBOLS USED IN ALGORITHM
ADVANCED FLOWCHARTING TECHNIQUES
SYMBOLS USED IN FLOWCHART INPUT/OUTPUT SYMBOLS
FLOWLINES
PROCESSING SYMBOL
DECISION SYMBOL
CONNECTOR SYMBOL PREPARE/INITIALIZE             
EXAMPLES  

10.

TRANSFER OF CONTROL & BRANCHING INSTRUCTIONS
STATEMENTS
REM STATEMENT
STOP STATEMENT
END STATEMENT
LET STATEMENT
PRINT STATEMENT
INPUT STATEMENT
TRANSFER OF CONTROL
JUMPING: THE GOTO STATEMENT
LOOP CONTROL
BRANCHING: THE IF…THEN STATEMENT
IF…THEN…ELSE
COUNTERS AND ACCUMULATORS
IF…THEN WITH COUNTERS
IF…THEN WITH ACCUMULATORS
IF…THEN WITH LOGICAL OPERATORS
EXAMPLES  


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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 10, 2001 Edition

CH. NO.  CONTENTS  CH. NO.   CONTENTS
1.

INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL 97
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS EXCEL
STARTING EXCEL
OPENING A WORKBOOK
GETTING TO KNOW THE EXCEL SCREEN
TITLE BAR
TOOLBARS
MENU BAR
STATUS BAR
SCROLL BAR
FORMULA BAR
MOVING AROUND THE EXCEL SCREEN
CELL AND CELL ADDRESS
NAME BOX
SAVING A WORKBOOK
CLOSING A WORKBOOK
OPENING A RECENTLY USED WORKBOOK
GETTING HELP WITH OFFICE ASSISTANT
USING THE HELP MENU
EXITING EXCEL

2.

CREATING AND EDITING WORKBOOKS
CREATING NEW WORKBOOKS
OPENING NEW WORKSHEETS
ENTERING DATA
TYPES OF DATA
TEXT
NUMBER
LOGICAL
ERROR
ENTERING DATA INTO CELLS
ENTERING NUMBERS
ENTERING NUMBERS AS TEXT
ENTERING DATES AND TIME
EDITING A CELL
INTRODUCTION TO FORMULAS
TOTALING ROWS AND COLUMNS
ABSOLUTE, RELATIVE & MIXED REFERENCE
WORKING WITH AUTO COMPLETE
SELECTING, MOVING AND DELETING CELLS
SELECTING CELLS
MOVING CELLS
DELETING CELLS
CUT, COPY AND PASTE
COPYING FORMULAS
USING UNDO
FIND AND REPLACE
REPLACE
FORMATTING WORKBOOKS
ADJUSTING COLUMN AND ROW SIZES
ADJUSTING COLUMN SIZE
ADJUSTING ROW SIZE
CHANGING CELL ALIGNMENT
USING NUMBER FORMATTING
FORMATTING TEXT
USING STYLES AND AUTOFORMATTING
AUTOFORMATTING
SPELL CHECKER
WORKING WITH AUTO CORRECT

3.

VIEWING, DRAWING AND PRINTING
VIEWING THE WORKSHEET
ZOOM
FULL SCREEN VIEW
SPLITTING AND FREEZING A WORKSHEET
SPLITTING
FREEZING
USING DRAWING TOOLS
ADDING HEADERS AND FOOTERS
WORKING WITH PAGE SETUP
SETTING MARGINS
SETTING A PRINT AREA
USING PRINT PREVIEW AND PRINTING
PRINT PREVIEW
PRINTING

4.

MICROSOFT ACCESS 97
INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS 97
WHAT IS ACCESS
WHAT IS DATA
STARTING ACCESS
OPENING A DATABASE FILE
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE WINDOW
GETTING TO KNOW THE EXCEL SCREEN
TITLE BAR
MENU BAR
TOOLBARS
SAVING AND CLOSING A DATABASE FILE
SAVING
CLOSING
USING THE HELP MENU
OFFICE ASSISTANT
HELP MENU
EXITING ACCESS
WORKING WITH DATABASES
USING THE DATABASE WIZARD
WHAT IS A DATABASE?
WORKING WITH TABLES
CREATING A NEW DATABASE
OBJECTS
ADDING TABLES TO A DATABASE
ADDING FIELDS TO TABLES
FIELDS AND RECORDS
SETTING FIELD PROPERTIES
ADDING FIELDS
WORKING WITH DATASHEETS
ENTERING DATA
MOVING BETWEEN RECORDS & FIELDS
USING GO TO
UPDATING RECORDS
SELECTING ROWS AND COLUMNS
FINDING RECORDS
CHANGING COLUMN WIDTH
ADDING AND SORTING RECORDS
ADDING RECORDS
SORTING RECORDS
SAVING A DATASHEET
EXITING DATASHEET VIEW

5. TABLES, FORMS & REPORTS
TABLES: SETTING A PRIMARY KEY
SAVING A TABLE
CLOSING A TABLE
CREATING A QUERY
USING FORMS
WHAT IS A FORM
USING AN AUTOFORM
CREATING A FORM
WORKING IN A DESIGN VIEW
APPLYING AN AUTOFORMAT
FORMATTING A CONTROL
REPORTING TOOLS
WHAT IS A REPORT?
DESIGNING A REPORT
GROUPING RECORDS IN A REPORT
SORT AND SUMMARY ORDER
PREVIEWING, PRINTING AND SAVING A REPORT
CHANGING A REPORT LAYOUT
APPLYING AN AUTOFORMAT
FORMATTING A CONTROL
CREATING MAILING LABELS
6. ADVANCED MS-DOS COMMANDS
DISK OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDS
DATE
TIME
VER
VOL
CLS
TYPE
DEL
REN
DIR
COPYING AND FORMATTING FILES
DELETING AND LOADING EXECUTABLE FILES
WILD CARDS
BATCH PROCESSING COMMANDS
CREATING BATCH FILES IN DOS
EXECUTING A BATCH FILE
WORKING OF DOS
THE DISK BOOTSTRAP
THE BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SOFTWARE
THE FILE AND DISK MANAGER
THE COMMAND PROCESSOR
PHYSICAL LAYOUT OF THE DISK
BOOT SECTOR
FILE ALLOCATION TABLE
DIRECTORY AND DATA AREA
7. FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT AND RECORDING MEDIA
SOFTWARE CONCEPTS AND DATA ORGANISATION
NUMBERING SYSTEM AND DATA REPRESENTATION
COMPUTERS – THEIR CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS
DEVELOPMENT OF CHIPS
DATA STRUCTURES
FOURTH GENERATION LANGUAGES (4GL)
COMPUTER VIRUS
COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION
SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FLOWCHARTS
DECISION TABLES AND PSEUDOCODE
EMAIL
CAD
CAI
AI
VIRTUAL REALITY
VIDEO CONFERENCING
8. SOFTWARE CONCEPTS AND COMPUTER LANGUAGES
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
MACHINE LANGUAGE
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE
COMPILERS
INTERPRETERS
ASSEMBLERS
PROCEDURAL AND NON PROCEDURAL LANGUAGES
SOME HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES
FORTRAN
COBOL
BASIC
PASCAL
C
C++
SQL
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LANGUAGE AND A PACKAGE
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND LOGIC
BIT, NIBBLES AND BYTE
WORD LENGTH
CHARACTER REPRESENTATION
THE BINARY CONCEPT
BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM
DECIMAL SYSTEM
OCTAL SYSTEM
HEXADECIMAL SYSTEMS
SIMPLE CONVERSIONS FROM DECIMAL
DECIMAL TO BINARY
DECIMAL TO OCTAL
DECIMAL TO HEXADECIMAL
BINARY TO DECIMAL
OCTAL TO DECIMAL
HEXADECIMAL TO DECIMAL
BINARY ADDITION
BINARY SUBTRACTION
BINARY MULTIPLICATION
BINARY DIVISION
INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY CONCEPTS OF BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
9. PROGRAMMING IN BASIC
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC
STATEMENTS IN BASIC
CHARACTER SET
CONSTANTS – NUMERIC AND ALPHANUMERIC
NUMERIC CONSTANTS
ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING CONSTANTS
VARIABLES
NUMERIC VARIABLES
ALPHANUMERIC OR STRING VARIABLES
EXPRESSIONS – NUMERIC & ALPHABETIC
OPERATORS
ARITHMETIC OPERATORS
RELATIVE OPERATORS
LOGICAL OPERATORS
STRING OPERATORS
SYSTEM COMMANDS
AUTO
CONT
DELETE
EDIT
LIST
LOAD
NAME
KILL
NEW
MERGE
RENUM
RESET
RUN
SAVE
SYSTEM
TRON
TROFF
ALGORITHMS
SYMBOLS USED IN ALGORITHM
ADVANCED FLOWCHARTING TECHNIQUES
SYMBOLS USED IN FLOWCHART
INPUT/OUTPUT SYMBOLS
FLOWLINES
PROCESSING SYMBOL
DECISION SYMBOL
CONNECTOR SYMBOL
PREPARE/INITIALIZE
EXAMPLES
10. TRANSFER OF CONTROL & BRANCHING INSTRUCTIONS
STATEMENTS
REM STATEMENT
STOP STATEMENT
END STATEMENT
LET STATEMENT
PRINT STATEMENT
INPUT STATEMENT
TRANSFER OF CONTROL
JUMPING: THE GOTO STATEMENT
LOOP CONTROL
BRANCHING: THE IF…THEN STATEMENT
IF…THEN…ELSE
COUNTERS AND ACCUMULATORS
IF…THEN WITH COUNTERS
IF…THEN WITH ACCUMULATORS
IF…THEN WITH LOGICAL OPERATORS
THE FOR…NEXT LOOP
SERIES PROGRAMS - FOR…NEXT STATEMENT
EXAMPLES
STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
11. FUNCTIONS AND STRING MANIPULATION
FUNCTIONS AND THEIR TYPES
MATHEMATICAL (OR NUMERIC FUNCTIONS)
SQR FUNCTION
INT FUNCTION
ABS FUNCTION
MOD FUNCTION
CINT FUNCTION
SGN FUNCTION
FIX FUNCTION
EXP FUNCTION
ASC FUNCTION
ASCII CODES
CHR$ FUNCTION
RND FUNCTION
RANDOMIZE FUNCTION
STRING$ FUNCTION
SPC FUNCTION
SPACE$ FUNCTION
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING IN BASIC
STRING MANIPULATORS
LEFT$
RIGHT$
MID$
VAL
STR$
LEN
STRING CONCATENATION
READ DATA STATEMENT, RESTORE STATEMENT
MULTIPLE BRANCHING – ON…GO TO STATEMENT
SUBROUTINES
GO SUB… RETURN
ELEMENTARY PROGRAM EXAMPLES USING STRING MANIPULATORS
EXAMPLE PROGRAMS
12.

NETWORKING
BATCH PROCESSING
TIME SHARING
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
ONLINE AND OFFLINE SYSTEMS
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
MULTIPROCESSING
MULTIPROGRAMMING
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA COMMUNICATIONS
LAN & WAN
LAN
TOPOLOGIES OF NETWORK
STAR NETWORK
MULTI-POINT OR BUS NETWORK
RING NETWORK
TREE TOPOLOGY NETWORK
WAN
ADVANTAGES OF NETWORKING


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