AWES Syllabus For PGT Computer Science/Informatics and TGT Computer Science/Informatics

The Army Welfare Education Society (AWES) released the official announcement for the placement of 8,700 trained PGT, TGT, and PRT teacher positions in 136 Army Public Schools (APS) for graduate and B.Ed candidates interested in AWES Army School PGT TGT and PRT Recruitment 2022. The exam for the year 2022 was held on 19 and 20 February 2022. 

Let’s check all the related details below:

Eligibility Criteria:

S.No.	Post	Minimum Qualifications
Post category		Education	Aggregate %	Professional	Aggregate %
1.	PGT CS Informatics	Primary: BE/B.Tech in Computer science/IT/ Computer Engineering/ Electronics/ Electronics& Communications  Alternative: MCA/M.Sc. Computer Science/IT Or MSC Math/Physics/ Statistics and B.Sc. Computer Science /BCA/ 3yr Diploma in Computer Engineering or IT/PGDCA recognized by AICTE   Or B Level from DOEACC	50	B.Ed	50%
2.	TGT CS Informatics	BCA or Graduation in Computer Science or BE/B.Tech  (Computer Science/IT)  Or  Graduation in any subject and A level course from DOEACC,  Min of Info & Communication & Technology	50	B.Ed	50%

For more detail please follow the official notification.

Selection Procedure:

The selection of teachers occurs in three stages:

• <Stage 1:Screening Exam
• Stage 2: Interview
• Stage 3: Evaluation of Teaching Skills and Computer Proficiency

Syllabus for PGT-CS Informatics:

Computer Fundamental: 

• Evolution of computers; Basics of computer system and its operation: Functional Components and their inter-connections; the concept of Booting.
• Software Concepts: Types of Software – System Software, Utility Software, and Application Software; 
• System Software: Operating System, Compiler, Interpreter and Assembler; 
• Utility Software: Anti Virus, File Management tools, Compression tools, and Disk Management tools 
• Application software: Office Tools – Word Processor, Presentation Tool, Spreadsheet Package, Database Management System; Domain-specific tools – School Management System, Inventory Management System, Payroll System, Financial Accounting, Hotel Management, Reservation System and Weather Forecasting System 
• Number System: Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal, and conversion amongst these number systems.
• Internal Storage encoding of Characters: ASCII, ISCII (Indian scripts Standard Code for Information Interchange), and UNICODE (for multilingual computing)
• Microprocessor: Basic concepts, Clock speed (MHz, GHz), 16 bit, 32 bit, 64-bit processors, 128-bit processors; Types – CISC Processors (Complex Instruction set computing), RISC Processors (Reduced Instruction set computing), and EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing).
• Memory Concepts: Units: Byte, Kilo Byte, MegaByte, GigaByte, TeraByte, Peta Byte, Exa Byte, Zetta Byte, Yotta Byte 
• Primary Memory: Cache, RAM, ROM 
• Secondary Memory: Fixed and Removable Storage – Hard Disk Drive, CD/DVD Drive, Pen Drive, Blue Ray Disk 
• Input-Output Ports/Connections: Serial, Parallel, and Universal Serial Bus, PS-2 port, Infrared port, Bluetooth, Firewire. 

Programming in C++ :

• Getting Started: C++ character set, C++ Tokens, Structure of a C++ Program (include files, main function), Header files – iostream.h, iomanip.h, cout, cin; Use of I/O operators (<< and >>), Use of endl and setw (), Cascading of I/O operators, Error Messages; Use of the editor, basic commands of the editor, compilation, linking, and execution.
• Data Types, Variables, and Constants: Concept of Data types; Built-in Data types: char, int, float and double; Constants: Integer Constants, Character constants – \n, \t, \b), Floating Point Constants, String Constants; Access modifier: const; Variables of built-in data types, Initialization of variables, Assignment statement; Type modifier: signed, unsigned, long
• Operator and Expressions: Operators: Arithmetic operators (-,+,*,/,%), Unary operator (-), Increment (++) and Decrement (–) Operators, Relation operator (>,>=,<,<=,= =,!=), Logical operators (!, &&,||), Conditional operator; Precedence of Operators; Automatic type conversion in expressions, Type casting; C++ shorthands (+=, -=, *=, /=, %=)
• Flow of control: Conditional statements: if-else, Nested if, switch..case..default, use of the conditional operator, Nested switch..case, break statement (to be used in switch..case only); Loops: while, do-while, for, and Nested loops Inbuilt Functions; Header file Categorization Header Function File; Standard input/output functions stdio.h; Character Functions ctype.h; String Functions string.h ; Mathematical Functions math.h Other Functions stdlib.h randomize ( ), User Defined Functions: Introduction to user-defined function and its requirements. Defining a function; function prototype, Invoking/calling a function, passing arguments to a function, specifying argument data types, default argument, constant argument, call by value vs call by reference, returning values from a function, calling functions with arrays, scope rules of functions and variables local and global variables. Relating the Parameters and return type concepts in built-in functions.
• Structured Data Type: Arrays: Introductory and advantages. One Dimensional Array: Declaration/initialization of 1- dimensional array, Accessing array elements, Manipulation of Array elements, 
• Declaration/Initialization of a String, string manipulations;
• Object-Oriented Programming: Concept of Object Oriented Programming – Data hiding, Data encapsulation, Class and Object, Abstract class and Concrete class, Polymorphism; Inheritance, Advantages of Object-Oriented Programming over earlier programming methodologies, Constructor and Destructor:
• Data File Handling:
• Pointers: Introduction to Printer, Declaration, and Initialization of Pointers; Dynamic memory allocation/deallocation operators: new, delete;

Data Structures:

• Introduction to the data structure, primitive and non-primitive data structure, linear and non-linear structure, static and dynamic data structure. Arrays: One and Two Dimensional arrays: Sequential allocation and address calculation;
• One-dimensional array: Traversal, Searching (Linear, Binary Search), Insertion of an element in an array, deletion of an element from an array, Sorting (Insertion, Selection)
• Two-dimensional arrays: Traversal, Finding sum/difference of two NxM arrays containing numeric values, Interchanging Row and Column elements in a two-dimensional array;
• Stack (Array and Linked implementation of Stack): Introduction to stack (LIFO – Last in First Out Operations) Operations on Stack (PUSH and POP) and its Implementation in C++, Converting expressions from INFIX to POSTFIX notation and evaluation of Postfix expression;
• Queue: (Circular Array and Linked Implementation) Introduction to Queue (FIFO – First in First out operations) Operations on Queue (Insert and Delete) and its Implementation in C++. 

Database Management System and SQL: 

• Database Concepts: Introduction to database concepts and their need.
• Relational data model: Concept of the domain, tuple, relation, key, primary key, alternate key, candidate key; 
• Relational algebra: Selection, Projection, Union and Cartesian product; 
• Structured Query Language: General Concepts: Advantages of using SQL, Data Definition Language, and Data Manipulation Language; 
• Data types: NUMBER/DECIMAL, CHARACTER/VARCHAR/VARCHAR2, DATE; 
• SQL commands: CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE, UPDATE, SET, INSERT, DELETE; SELECT, DISTINCT, FROM, WHERE, IN, BETWEEN, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY; SQL functions: SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX and MIN; Obtaining results (SELECT query) from 2 tables using equi-join, Cartesian Product, and Union 
• Functions in MySQL: String Functions : CHAR(), CONCAT(),INSTR(), LCASE(), LEFT(), LOWER(), LENGTH(), LTRIM(), MID(), RIGHT(), RTRIM(), SUBSTR(), TRIM(), UCASE(), UPPER(). Mathematical Functions : POWER(), ROUND(), TRUNCATE(). Date and Time Functions : CURDATE() , DATE(), MONTH(), YEAR(), DAY DAYOFMONTH(), DAYOFWEEK(), DAYOFYEAR(), NOW(), SYSDATE(). 
• Working with number Character, Date, and NULL values.
• Using Comparison Operators : =, <, >, <=, >=, <>, BETWEEN, IN, LIKE (%,_), Using Logical Operators – AND, OR, NOT, Operator Precedence.
• ORDER BY Clause: Sorting in Ascending/Descending Order, Sorting using Column alias, Sorting On Multiple Columns.
• Manipulating Data of a Table/Relation: Update command to change existing data of a Table; Delete command for removing row(s) from a Table. Restructuring a table: ALTER TABLE for adding a new column(s), and deleting columns.
• Displaying table data: SELECT command for Selecting all the Columns, Selecting Specific Column, Using Arithmetic Operators, Operator Precedence, Defining and using column alias, Eliminating duplicate values from the display (DISTINCT Keyword), Limiting rows during selection (using WHERE clause),
• Grouping Records: GROUP BY, Group functions – MAX(), MIN(), AVG(), SUM(), COUNT(); using COUNT(*), DISTINCT clause with COUNT, Group Functions and Null Values,
• Displaying Data From Multiple Tables: Cartesian product, Union, the concept of Foreign Key, Equi- Join Creating a Table with PRIMARY KEY and NOT NULL constraints, Viewing Constraints, adding constraints, enabling constraints, and dropping constraints. 

Boolean Algebra: 

• Role of Logical Operations in Computing. Binary-valued Quantities, Logical Variable, Logical Constant and Logical Operators: AND, OR, NOT; Truth Tables; Closure Property, Commutative Law, Associative Law, Identity law, Inverse law, Principle of Duality, Idempotent Law, Distributive Law, Absorption Law, Involution law, DeMorgan’s Law, Obtaining Sum of Product (SOP) and Product of Sum (POS) form from the Truth Table, Reducing Boolean Expression (SOP and POS) to its minimal form, Use of Karnaugh Map for minimization of Boolean expressions (up to 4 variables); Application of Computing Logic: Building up logic circuits using basic Logic Gates (NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOT) Use of Boolean operators (NOT, AND, OR)

Networking and Open Source Software Communication Technologies:

• Evolution of Networking: ARPANET, www, Internet, Interspace Different ways of sending data across the network with reference to switching techniques (Circuit, Message, and Packet switching)
• Data Communication terminologies: Concept of Channel and Data transfer rate (bps, kbps, Mbps, Gbps, Tbps) 
• Transmission media: Twisted pair cable, coaxial cable, optical fiber, infrared, radio link, microwave link, and satellite link 
• Network devices: Modem RJ11and RJ45 connectors, Ethernet Card, Hub, Switch, Gateway
• Network Topologies and types: Bus, Star, Tree; PAN, LAN, WAN, MAN
• Network Protocol: TCP/IP, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), PPP, Remote Login (Telnet), Internet Wireless/Mobile Communication protocol such as GSM, CDMA, GPRS, WLL, Mobile Telecommunication Technologies: 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G; Electronic mail protocols such as SMTP, POP3 Protocols for Chat and Video Conferencing VOIP Wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi and WiMax
• Network Security Concepts: Threats and prevention from Viruses, Worms, Trojan horse, Spams, Use of Cookies, Protection using Firewall; India IT Act, Cyber Law, Cyber Crimes, IPR issues, Hacking.
• WebServices: WWW, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), eXtensible Markup Language (XML); HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP); Domain Names; URL; Protocol Address; Website, Web browser, Web Servers; Web Hosting, Web Scripting – Client-side (VB Script, Java Script, PHP) and Server-side (ASP, JSP, PHP), Web 2.0 (for social networking) 
• Open Standards: Introduction to open standards and its advantage in the development of inter-operable environments. 
• Open Source Concepts Proprietary and Open Source Software, Freeware, Shareware, FLOSS/FOSS, GNU, FSF, OSI, W3C
• Cloud Computing Characteristics, layers-client, Application, platform and infrastructure, Deployment models-Private cloud, Public cloud, Community cloud and hybrid cloud, Issues- Privacy, Compliance, Security, Sustainability and abuse. 

Programming using JAVA: 

• Introduction, Rapid Application Development using IDE (Integrated Development Environment); Familiarization of IDE using basic Interface components-Label, Text Field, Text Area, Button, Checkbox, Radio Button
• Developing General Application – Getting Familiar with Java User Interface Swing components – Frame, Option Pane, Label, Text Field, Password Field, Text Area, Button, Check Box, Radio Button, Combo Box, List, and their respective methods and properties:
• Programming Fundamentals: Data Types – Concept of data types; Built-in data types: byte, short, int, long, float, double, char, String, Boolean
• Variables: Need to use a variable, Declaring Variables, Variable Naming Conventions, Assigning values to Variable(s);
• Integer object method: Parse Int
• Double-object method: parse double, parse float
• Control Structures: Decision Structures: if, if-else, switch; Looping Structures: while, do-while, for;
• Programming Guidelines: Problem Solving Methodology: Understanding of the problem, Identifying a minimum number of inputs required for output, breaking down the problem into simple logical steps. Modular approach; Stylistic Guidelines: Clarity and Simplicity of Expressions, Names, Comments, Indentation; Running and debugging programs: Syntax Errors, Run-Time Errors, Logical Errors. The basic concept of Access specifier for classes, Members, and methods Basic concept of Inheritance. Commonly used libraries: String class and methods: toString(), Concat(), length(), toLowerCase(), to UpperCase(), trim(), substring() Math class methods: pow(), round() Accessing MySQL database using ODBC/JDBC to connect with database. Web application development: URL, Web Server, Communicating with the webserver, concept of Client and Server Side. HTML based web pages covering basic tags – HTML, TITLE, BODY, H1..H6, Paragraph (P), Line Break (BR), Section Separator (HR), FONT, TABLE, LIST (UL, OL), IMG, FORM; Creating and accessing static pages using HTML and introduction to XML
• Front-end Interface: Introduction; content and features; identifying and using appropriate components (Text Box, Radio Button, CheckBox, List, etc.
• Back-end Database – Introduction and its purpose; exploring the requirement of tables and their essential attributes;
• Front-End and Database Connectivity – Introduction, requirement, and benefits
• IT Applications: e-Governance: Definition, Benefits to citizens, e-Governance websites and their salient features; Societal impacts; e-Governance challenges.
• e-Business: Definition, Benefits to customers and business, e-Business websites and their salient features; Societal impacts; e-Business challenges.
• e-Learning: Definition; Benefits to students (Learners), teachers (Trainers) and school (Institution) Management; e-Learning websites and their salient features Societal impacts;
• Demonstration and development of appropriate Front-end interface and Back-end Database for e-Governance, e-Business, and e-Learning applications
• Impact of ICT on Society: Social and Economics benefits and Infomania. 

Web Page Development: 

• WWW, Domain Names, URL, IP Address, Website, Web browser, Web Server, Web Hosting;
• HTML Introduction, Content creation, SGML, creating HTML document using a text editor, Saving HTML document, Editing an HTML document, Viewing HTML documents in a Web Browser, Switching between text editor and web browser windows to view changes made;
• Web Page Authoring Using HTML: Basic Concepts: Concept of tags and attributes, Difference between Container tag and Empty tag; 
• Structural Tags of HTML: <HTML>, <HEAD>, <TITLE>, <BODY>; Attributes of <BODY> (BGCOLOR, BACKGROUND, LINK, ALINK, VLINK)
• Inserting Breaks: Line break <BR>, Page break <P>; Attributes of <P> (ALIGN), Section break <HR>;(WIDTH, ALIGN, SIZE, NOSHADE, COLOR) in <HR>
• Formatting Tags of HTML: <SMALL>, <BIG>, <B>, <I>, <U>, <EM>, <BLOCKQUOTE>, <PRE>, <SUB>, <SUP>, <STRIKE>, <ADDRESS>, Adding Comments in HTML (<!– –>), Heading tag (<H1> to <H6>); Attributes of Heading tag (ALIGN), <FONT> tag; Attributes of <FONT> (SIZE, COLOR, FACE),
• Creating Lists: Ordered Lists: <OL>,<LI>; Attributes of <OL>(TYPE – 1, I, A, a; START); Unordered Lists : <UL>, <LI> (TYPE- disc, circle, square) Definition List : <DL>, <DT>, <DD>
• Creating Links: Internal linking using <A NAME> and <A HREF>; External linking using <A HREF>; E-Mail linking using <A HREF>; Concept of URL; Absolute Links & Relative Links 
• Inserting Images: Inserting inline images using <IMG>; Attributes of <IMG> (SRC, ALIGN, WIDTH, HEIGHT, ALT, BORDER);
• Adding Music: Adding music using <A HREF> and <EMBED>; Attributes of <EMBED> (SRC, ALIGN, WIDTH, HEIGHT, LOOP, AUTOSTART, HIDDEN);
• Creating Tables: Creating Table using <TABLE>; Attributes of <TABLE> (BORDER, BGCOLOR, BACKGROUND, ALIGN, CELLSPACING, CELLPADDING, WIDTH, HEIGHT) Creating rows and columns in a table using <TH>,<TR>, <TD>; Attributes of <TH>, <TR>, <TD> (ALIGN, VALIGN, COLSPAN, ROWSPAN); Adding headings for a table using <CAPTION>; Attribute of <CAPTION>(ALIGN) 
• Creating Frames: Dividing the window into two or more frames using <FRAME> and <FRAMESET>, Use of percentage dimensions and relative dimensions while dividing the window; use of <NOFRAMES>; Attributes of <FRAMESET> (ROWS, COLS, BORDER, FRAMEBORDER); Attributes of <FRAME> (SRC, NAME, HEIGHT, WIDTH, MARGINHEIGHT, MARGINWIDTH, SCROLLING, NORESIZE>
• Forms: Processing of data collection through a Form – written to a file, submitted to a database or emailed to someone; Creating Forms using <FORM>, Attributes of <FORM> (NAME, ACTION, METHOD)
• Creating Form Interface elements – single line text box, password box, file selection box, hidden box, checkbox, radio button, button, submit button, reset button using the <INPUT>; Attributes of <INPUT> applicable with different interface elements (NAME, SIZE, VALUE, ALIGN, MAXLENGTH, CHECKED, TYPE); multiline text area using <TEXTAREA>; Attributes of <TEXTAREA> ( NAME, ROWS, COLS, WRAP); dropdown list or scroll list using <SELECT> and <OPTION>; Attributes of <SELECT> (NAME, SIZE, MULTIPLE/SINGLE) 
• Document Object Model Concept and Importance of Document Object Model, Dynamic HTML documents;
• Cascading Style Sheets Introduction to Cascading Style Sheet (CSS): Creating inline, embedded and external cascading style sheets using <STYLE>, <DIV>, <SPAN> and <LINK>; Attribute of <DIV> and <SPAN> ; Attributes of <LINK> (REL, TYPE, HREF);
• Font Properties: FONT-FAMILY, FONT-STYLE, FONT-SIZE, FONT-VARIANT, FONT-WEIGHT, and COLOR 
• Text Properties: WORD-SPACING, LETTER-SPACING, TEXT-DECORATION, VERTICAL-ALIGN, TEXTTRANSFORM; TEXT-ALIGN, TEXT-INDENT, LINE-HEIGHT 
• Background Properties: BACKGROUND-COLOR, BACKGROUND-IMAGE, BACKGROUND-REPEAT; 
• Margin Properties: MARGINS (all values); 
• Padding Properties: PADDING (all values); 
• Border Properties: BORDER (all values); Positioning: Absolute and Relative; 
• Additional Features: Assigning Classes; 
• XML: eXtensible Markup Language: Introduction, Features, Advantages; 
• Structure of XML: Logical Structure, Physical Structure;
• XML Markup: Element Markup (example: <foot>Hello</foot>), Attribute Markup (example: <!element.name property= “value”> ) 
• Naming Rules: Naming rules for elements, attributes and descriptors;
• Components of XML: Tags, Elements, Root element, Attributes, Entities; Comments in XML; Developing DTD: Element Declaration in a DTD: <!ELEMENT elementname (content-type)> Entity Declarations, Declaring Empty Elements, Container Elements, Unrestricted Elements, Attribute Declarations Element Content Model Element Occurrence Indicators: ? ,*,+ ; Character Content: PCDATA (Parseable Character data) <!ELEMENT text(#PCDATA)> Well Formed XML Documents, Valid XML Documents Document Type Declaration (DTD) – Internal and External DTD Validating an XML document using a DTD using Parsers; Developing a DTD, Developing a DTD from XML Code, either automatically or manually; Viewing XML in Internet Explorer, Viewing XML using the XML Data Source Object;
• Web Scripting;
• VBScript Introduction to client side scripting using <SCRIPT> tag, VBScript Variables: Declaring variable, Naming restrictions, Assigning value to variables, Scalar variables and1-D Array, Importance of Variant Data type; VBScript Constants,
• VBScript Operators: VBScript Operators and Operator precedence; Arithmetic Operators: +, – (Unary and Binary), *, /, \ (integer division), MOD, ^ Comparison Operators: <, >, <=, >=, <>, = Logical Operators: AND, OR, NOT ; String Operators: & and + (for concatenation)
• Control Structures in VBScript: Conditional statements: If..Then.. Else…End if, Select Case; Loops: Entry controlled and Exit controlled
• loops; Do..Loop, While.. Wend, For..Next, For Each..Next;
• Inbuilt Functions of VBScript General Functions: MsgBox function, Arguments of MsgBox function (Prompt, Buttons, Title), Return values of MsgBox function; InputBox function, Arguments of InputBox function (Prompt, Title, Default, Xpos, Ypos), Return values of InputBox function;
• Conversion Functions: Abs(), CBool(), CByte(), CInt(), CStr(), CSng(), CLng(), CDate() ;
• String ManipulationFunctions: Ucase(), Lcase(), Len(), Left(), Right(), Mid(), LTrim(), RTrim(), Trim(), InStr() ; Time & Date Functions: Date(), Day(), Month(), Hour(), Minute(), Monthname(), Now() VBScript Procedures and Functions(User Defined): Sub procedures, Functions, passing parameters/arguments; Creating Dynamic Interface using VBScript Using VBScript with HTML form controls Installation and Managing WEB-Server: Internet Information Server (IIS) / Personal Web Server (PWS).
• Active Server Pages (ASP): Concept of ASP, features of ASP, other equivalent tools – JSP, PHP; Constants: String and Numeric; Data types: Integer, Floating Point (Single, Double), String, Date, Boolean, Currency, Variant, Object; Variables: Explicit and Implicit Declaration of variables Operators: Arithmetic:+, – (Unary and Binary), *, /, \(integer division) mod, ^;Comparison: <, >, <=, >=, <>, =; Logical: AND, OR, NOT, XOR, EQV, IMP; String Operator: & or + (for Concatenation); Functions: Conversion functions: Abs(), CBool(), CByte(), CInt(), CStr(), CSng(), CLng(), CDate(); String Manipulation Functions: UCase(), LCase(), Len(), Left(), Right(), Mid(), LTrim(), InStr(), RTrim(), Trim();Time & Date Functions: Date(), Day(), Hour(), Minute(), Month(), Monthname(), Now();Arrays: Declaration and use of 1 dimensional arrays; Controls: If..Then, If..Then..Else..End If, If..Then, Else If..Then..Else..End If Select..Case..End Select, For..Next, For Each.. Next, Do While..Loop, Do.. Loop While, Do Until.. Loop, Do..Loop Until;
• Procedures and Functions: Passing parameters/arguments; Concept of object model structure (client to server and server to client); Objects: Properties, Methods, Events, Setting Object properties, Retrieving Object properties, calling objects/methods; Types of Objects: Response, Request, Application, Session, Server, ASPError;
• Response Object: Write Method, AddHeader, AppendToLog, BinaryWrite, Using Shortcuts <%=value/expr%>, Controlling information: Buffer, Flush Clear, End; Request Object: Request Object Collection: QueryString, Form, ServerVariables, Cookies, ClientCertificate; Server Variables: HTTP_User_Agent, REMOTE_ADDER, REMOTE_HOST, SERVER_NAME; Application : Contents, Lock, Unlock, Remove, RemoveAll;
• ASP Components: AD Rotator, Content Rotator, Counter, Page Counter, Permission Checker;
• Text Files: Open, Read and display content from a text file;
• Working on Database: Connecting with Databases: Creation of DSN, using OLE DB Inserting, Retrieving, Modifying/Updation of records from Tables in Databases using server objects (ADODB.Connection, ADODB.Recordset);

Multimedia and Authoring Tools:

• Concept of Multimedia: Picture/Graphics, Audio, Video; Digital Images and Digital Image Representation, Animation, Morphing
• Image Formats: TIFF, BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, PDF, PSD;
• Applications: Poster Design, Still pictures, colored layout, Designing of – Books, magazines brochures, children’s literature, narrative text handling, scripts in Indian Languages, picture books, comics, illustrations with photographs, scientific illustrations, conceptual illustrations, handling of assignment for the market;
• Image Scanning with the help of scanner: Setting up Resolution, Size, File formats of images, Bitonal, Grey Scale and color options, preview the image
• Graphic Tools: Image Editing Software (Photoshop / CorelDRAW), GIMP
• Basic Concepts of Image Creation: Introduction, Creating, Opening and saving files, Interface elements of the tool: Menus, Toolbox, Color control icons, Mode control icons, Window controls icons;
• Image Handling: Cropping, Adjusting Image Size, Adjusting the Size of the Work Canvas, Rotating selections, Scaling an object
• Operations on Layers: Adding new layers, Dragging and Pasting selected objects onto layers, Dragging layers between files, Viewing, Hiding, Editing, Moving, Copying, Duplicating, Deleting, Merging layers, Preserving layers, Using Adjustment layers;
• Channels and Masks: Channel palette, Showing and Hiding channels, Splitting channels into separate images, Merging channels, Creating a quick mask, Editing masks using quick mask mode;
• Painting and Editing: Brushes palette, Brush shape, Creating and Deleting brushes, Creating Custom brushes, Setting Brush Paint fade-out rate, Making, Adjusting, Moving, Copying, Extending, Reducing, Pasting and Deleting selections using selection tools, Softening the edges of a selection, Hiding a selection border
• Sound: Recording Sound using Sound Recorder (Capture), Sound capture through sound editing software (ex: Sound Forge), Sound Editing, Noise correction, Effect enhancement; Importing audio files from external devices and saving them; Sound Quality: CD Quality, Radio Quality, Telephone Quality
• Voice Recording Software: Philips/Dragon, MIDI Player, Sound Recorder, Mono & Stereo
• Sound File Format: AIFF (Audio Input File Format from Apple Mac) , MIDI, WAV, MP3, ASF (Streaming format from Microsoft)
• Multimedia Application: Education ( use of CAL tool ), Entertainment, Edutainment, Virtual Reality, Digital Libraries, Information Kiosks, Video on Demand, Web Pages Videophone, Videoconferencing, and Health care.
• Movie File Formats: AVI, MPEG, SWF, MOV, DAT;
• Embedding Audio/Video on the web page; Multimedia Authoring Using Macromedia Flash; Making of Simple Flash Movie, Setting Properties, Frame Rate, Dimensions, and Background Color;
• Movie Frames: Concept of Frame, Frame Buffer, and Frame Rate, Creating a Key Frame;
• Scene: Concept of Scene, Duplicate Scene, Add Scene, Delete Scene, and Navigating between Scenes;
• Layers: Concept of Layer, Layer Properties, Layer Name, Show/Hide/Lock layers, Type of Layer – Normal/ Guide/Mask, Outline Color, Viewing Layer as an outline, Layer Height, Adding/deleting a layer; Inserting Text Into the Frame, Inserting Graphical Elements into the frame, Converting Text/Graphics to Symbol, Inserting, Symbol into the Frame, Setting Symbol Property (Graphics/Button/Movie), Inserting Blank Frame, Inserting Blank Key Frame, Inserting Key Frame into the Blank frame, Selecting all/Specific frames of a Layer, Copying/Pasting selected Frames;
• Special Effects: Motion Tweening, Shape Tweening, Color effect, Inserting Sound Layer; Testing a Scene and Movie; Import/Export (Movie/Sound and other multimedia objects);
• Publishing: Publishing A Flash Movie; Changing publish Settings; Producing SWF(Flash Movie) for an HTML page in any of the possible formats like GIF image, JPEG Image (*.jpg), PNG Image, Windows Projector (*.exe), Macintosh Projector (*.hqx), Quick Time (*.mov), Real Player (*.smil); Testing with Publish Preview.

Programming in Python:

• Getting Started: Introduction to Python,
• Variables, Expressions, and Statements: Values, Variables, and keywords; Operators and Operands in Python: (Arithmetic, relational and logical operators), operator precedence, Expressions and Statements (Assignment statement); Taking input (using raw_input() and input()) and displaying output (print()); Putting Comments. 
• Functions: Importing Modules (entire module or selected objects), invoking built-in functions, functions from math module (for example, ceil, floor, fabs, exp, log, log10, pow, sqrt, cos, sin, tan, degrees, radians), using random() and randint() functions of the random module to generate random numbers, composition. 
• Defining functions, invoking functions, passing parameters (default parameter values, keyword arguments), the scope of variables, void functions and functions returning values, the flow of execution 
• Conditional constructs and looping: if-else statement, While, for (range function), break, continue, else, pass 
• Strings: Creating, initializing, and accessing the elements; string operators: +, *, in, not in, range slice [n:m]; comparing strings using relational operators; 
• String functions and methods: len, capitalize, find, isalnum, isalpha, isdigit, lower, islower, isupper, upper, lstrip, rstrip. 
• Lists: Concept of mutable lists, creating, initializing, and accessing the elements, traversing, appending, updating, and deleting elements; List operations (joining, list slices); 
• List functions and methods: len, insert, append, extend, sort, remove, reverse, pop. 
• Dictionaries: Concept of key-value pair, creating, initializing, and accessing the elements in a dictionary, traversing, appending, updating, and deleting elements. 
• Dictionary functions & Methods: cmp, len, clear(), get(), has_key(), items(), keys(), update(), values() 
• Tuples: Immutable concept, creating, initialising and accessing the elements in a tuple; tuple functions: cmp(), len(), max(), min())
• Stacks and Queues with lists Data File: Opening and closing files, file object, access_modes, reading and writing a file read(), readlines(), write(), file positions (seek(), tell()), renaming and deleting a file.
• Classes (in Python): Defining classes (attributes, methods), creating instance objects, accessing attributes and methods, using built-in class attributes (dict, doc, name, module, bases), using init(), del() method, and str( ) in a class, private attributes (limited support), the importance of “self” (acts as a pointer to current calling object) 
• Inheritance: Single and multiple inheritances- Overriding methods, using super() in the derived class to invoke _init_() or overridden methods of the parent class

Registration:

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