Fundamental

1. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER

1. 1.0  Introduction 
2. 1.2  What is Computer?

            1.2.1 History of Computers
            1.2.2 Characteristics Of Computer System                                                                                                   

            1.2.3 Basic     Applications of Computer

       1.3  Components of Computer System

1. 1. 1.3.1  Central Processing Unit
   2. 1.3.2  Keyboard, mouse and VDU
   3. 1.3.3  Other Input devices
   4. 1.3.4  Other Output devices
   5. 1.3.5  Computer Memory
2. 1.4  Concept of Hardware and Software
   
   1. 1.4.1  Hardware
   2. 1.4.2  Software
      
      1. 1.4.2.1  Application Software
      2. 1.4.2.2  Systems software
   3. 1.4.3  Programming Languages
3. 1.5  Representation of Data/Information
4. 1.6  Concept of Data processing
5. 1.7  Applications of IECT
   
   1. 1.7.1  e-governance
   2. 1.7.2  Multimedia and Entertainment
6. 1.8  Summary
7. 1.9  Model Questions and Answers

2. INTRODUCTION TO GUI BASED OPERATING SYSTEM

Introduction
Objectives
Basics of Operating System

1. 2.2.1  Operating system
2. 2.2.2  Basics of popular operating system (LINUX, WINDOWS)

The User Interface

1. 2.3.1  Task Bar
2. 2.3.2  Icons
3. 2.3.3  Start Menu
4. 2.3.4  Running an Application

      3.  Operating System Simple Setting

1. 2.4.1  Changing System Date And Time
2. 2.4.2  Changing Display Properties
3. 2.4.3  To Add Or Remove A Windows Component
4. 2.4.4  Changing Mouse Properties
5. 2.4.5  Adding and removing Printers
6. File and Directory Management Types of files

Graphic Designing

CorelDRAW

 Introduction to CorelDRAW
 User Interface (UI) Design
 Pick tool transformation
 Background patterns
 Drawing tools and properties
 Group, align, order, and zoom
 Freehand, Point, bezier and pen tool
 Weld, Trim, and Intersect
 Gradient
 Mesh

 Text tool
 Shadow and Transparency
 Envelope tool
 Contour tool 
 Distortion
 Blend
 Artistic, Media, Live sketch, and Smart Drawing
 Text masking and Clipart
 Certificate Print and Merge

Assignments & Projects
 Image editing 
 Carousel designing
 Rakshabandhan graphic design
 Independence Day graphic design
 Thumbnail designing

Basics of Adobe Photoshop

 All about the welcome screen, Move and Artboard tool
 All about layer panel
 Brush tool
 Crop tool
 Clone stamp tool
 Healing tool
 Content-aware fill
 Eraser tool
 Blur, Sharpen, Smudge tool
 Layer Mask
 Black and White Color
 History Panel and History Brush
 Vector Shapes, Vector smart object & Raster smart object

 Clipping mask, Dodge, Burn and Sponge tool
 Gradient and Patterns
 Blending options/layer styles and making seamless texture
 How to make layer styles
 Vanishing point filter and blend
 Useful websites
 Perspective warp
 Face aware liquify
 Puppet warp
 Align layers
 Remove matte from layer
 Stroke on path
 Anti-aliasing
 Fill layers
 Vector mask
 How to save files and export jpeg/png
 How to extract hair with select and mask
 Color channels and differences between RGB & CMYK
 Adjustments
 Sharpen an image
 Change color of any object

Adobe Photoshop Advanced

 Convert day scene to night
 Gradient map
 Make your own lookup tables
 Custom brushes
 Make professional actions

 Play actions on 100s of images
 Design poster
 How to blur background
 Portrait development and skin retouch
 Shadows in photoshop
 Double exposures
 Color balance to match the tone of images
 Alpha channel in photoshop
 Quick mask mode
 Colorize black and white portrait
 Select tree using channels
 Photo filter and channel mixer
 Gradient map
 Selective color adjustments
 Layer comps
 Shortcuts in photoshop

Basics of Adobe Illustrator

 About the welcome screen & Selection tool
 Vector vs. Raster
 Direct selection tool, pen tool, and Guides/rulers
 Pen tool and All about Layer Panel
 Line segment, Arc, Spiral, Polar Grid, Rectangular Grid tool
 All about fill and stroke
 Rotate Tool and shape builder Tool
 Shape tool, Gradient Artboard Tool and setting
 Scale, Shear, Reshape, and Free Transform Tool
 Pathfinder and make icons & Appearance panel
 Resizing and Slicing Artboards
 Color theory
 Type Tool with examples
 How to download and install different free fonts?
 Typography
 Custom brushes
 How to save files and export jpeg/png

Adobe Illustrator advanced

 Mesh tool
 Tracing with mesh tool

 Use of blend tool and actions
 Working with symbol tool
 Perspective tool
 All about graph Tool
 Path Panel
 3D Effects
 Image tracing and Live Paint
 Distort and Transforms
 Create flat design
 Isometric Designs via guides/tools
 Vector art
 Low Poly art
 1D/2D/3D perspective Buildings

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION AND INTERNET

1. 5.0  Introduction
2. 5.1  Objectives
3. 5.2  Basics of Computer Networks
5.2.1 Local Area Network (LAN)
5.2.2 Wide Area Network (WAN)
4. 5.3  Internet
5.3.1 Concept of Internet
5.3.2 Basics of Internet Architecture
5. 5.4  Services on Internet
5.4.1 World Wide Web and Websites 5.4.2 Communication on Internet 5.4.3 Internet Services
6. 5.5  Preparing Computer for Internet Access
5.5.1 ISPs and examples (Broadband/Dialup/WiFi) 5.5.2 Internet Access Techniques
7. 5.6  Summary
8. 5.7  Model Questions and Answers
6. WWW AND WEB BROWSER
1. 6.0  Introduction
2. 6.1  Objectives
3. 6.2  Web Browsing Software
6.2.1 Popular Web Browsing Software
4. 6.3  Configuring Web Browser
5. 6.4  Search Engines
6.4.1 Popular Search Engines / Search for content 6.4.2 Accessing Web Browser
6.4.3 Using Favorites Folder
6.4.4 Downloading Web Pages
6.4.5 Printing Web Pages
7. COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
1. 7.0  Introduction
2. 7.1  Objectives
3. 7.2  Basics of E-mail
7.2.1 What is an Electronic Mail 7.2.2 Email Addressing
7.2.3 Configuring Email Client
4. 7.3  Using E-mails

7.3.1 Opening Email Client
7.3.2 Mailbox: Inbox and Outbox
7.3.3 Creating and Sending a new E-mail 7.3.4 Replying to an E-mail message 7.3.5 Forwarding an
E-mail message 7.3.6 Sorting and Searching emails
4. 7.4  Advance email features
7.4.1 Sending document by E-mail 7.4.2 Activating Spell checking
7.4.3 Using Address book
7.4.4 Sending Softcopy as attachment 7.4.5 Handling SPAM
5. 7.5  Instant Messaging and Collaboration 7.5.1 Using Smiley
7.5.2 Internet etiquettes

                                          Python Language

(i) Introduction to Programming

The basic Model of computation, algorithms, flowcharts, Programming Languages,
compilation, testing & Debugging and documentation.

(ii)Algorithms and Flowcharts to Solve Problems Flow Chart Symbols, Basic

algorithms/flowcharts for sequential processing, decision based processing and iterative
processing. Some examples like: Exchanging values of two variables, summation of a set of

numbers, Decimal Base to Binary Base conversion, Reversing digits of an integer, GCD
(Greatest Common Division) of two numbers, Test whether a number is prime, factorial
computation, Fibonacci sequence, Evaluate ‘sin x’ as sum of a series, Reverse order of
elements of an array, Find largest number in an array, Print elements of upper triangular
matrix, etc.

(iii)Introduction to Python

Python Introduction, Technical Strength of Python, Introduction to Python Interpreter and
program execution, Using Comments, Literals, Constants, Python’s Built-in Data types,
Numbers (Integers, Floats, Complex Numbers, Real, Sets), Strings (Slicing, Indexing,
Concatenation, other operations on Strings), Accepting input from Console, printing
statements, Simple ‘Python’ programs.

(iv) Operators, Expressions and Python Statements

Assignment statement, expressions, Arithmetic, Relational, Logical, Bitwise operators and
their precedence, Conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif-else; simple programs, Notion of
iterative computation and control flow –range function, While Statement, For loop, break
statement, Continue Statement, Pass statement, else, assert.

(v)Sequence Data Types

Lists, tuples and dictionary, (Slicing, Indexing, Concatenation, other operations on Sequence
data type), concept of mutability, Examples to include finding the maximum, minimum,
mean; linear search on list/tuple of numbers, and counting the frequency of elements in a
list using a dictionary.

(vi) Functions

Top-down approach of problem solving, Modular programming and functions, Function
parameters, Local variables, the Return statement, DocStrings, global statement, Default
argument values, keyword arguments, VarArgs parameters. Library function-input(),
eval(),print(), String Functions: count(), find(), rfind(), capitalize(), title(), lower(), upper(),
swapcase(), islower(), isupper(), istitle(), NIELIT Syllabus Booklet ‘O’ Level (IT)-Revision V
Document Version v1 dated 29th March, 2019 replace(), strip(), lstrip(), rstrip(), aplit(),
partition(), join(), isspace(), isalpha(), isdigit(), isalnum(), startswith(), endswith(), encode(),
decode(), String: Slicing, Membership, Pattern Matching, Numeric Functions: eval(), max(),
min(), pow(), round(), int(), random(), ceil(), floor(), sqrt(), Date & Time Functions, Recursion

(vii) File Processing

Concept of Files, File opening in various modes and closing of a file, Reading from a file,
Writing onto a file, File functions-open(), close(), read(), readline(),readlines(),write(),
writelines(),tell(),seek(), Command Line arguments.

(viii) Scope and Modules

Scope of objects and Names, LEGB Rule Module Basics, Module Files as Namespaces,
Import Model, Reloading Modules.

(x) NumPy Basics

Introduction to NumPy ,ndarray, datatypes, array attributes, array creation routines, Array
From Existing Data, Array From Numerical Ranges, Indexing & Slicing.