CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 6, 2001 Edition
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY |
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 7, 2001 Edition
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LATEST
DEVELOPMENT IN COMPUTERS 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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SMART CARD DESIGN ANIMATION TELE-COMMUNICATION COMPUTER GRAPHICS COMPUTER AIDED TESTING VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS NETWORKING MORPHING |
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 8, 2001 Edition
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INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL 97 |
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CREATING AND EDITING WORKBOOKS |
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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 |
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MICROSOFT
POWERPOINT 97 |
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CUSTOMIZING
PRESENTATIONS |
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MICROSOFT
ACCESS 97 |
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BASIC
ARITHMETIC STATEMENTS |
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BASIC
PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES |
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FUNCTIONS AND
STRING MANIPULATION |
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CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 9, 2001 Edition
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COMPUTER
CONCEPTS |
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WINDOWS 98 |
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MICROSOFT WORD
97
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FORMATTING TEXT |
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MICROSOFT
POWERPOINT 97 |
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CUSTOMIZING
PRESENTATIONS |
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BASIC COMPUTER
ORGANISATION |
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MS-DOS |
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PROGRAMMING IN
BASIC |
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TRANSFER OF
CONTROL & BRANCHING INSTRUCTIONS |
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK "COMPUTERS OUR FUTURE" CLASS 10, 2001 Edition
| CH. NO. | CONTENTS | CH. NO. | CONTENTS |
| 1. |
INTRODUCTION TO
EXCEL 97 |
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CREATING AND
EDITING WORKBOOKS |
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VIEWING,
DRAWING AND PRINTING |
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MICROSOFT
ACCESS 97 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 CAD CAI AI VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO CONFERENCING |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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NETWORKING |