CBSE 11th Class Computer Science Syllabus
Units Topics Marks 1 Computer Fundamentals 10 2 Programming Methodology 10 3 Introduction to Python/C++ 18 4 Programming with Python/C++ 30 Total 70
Unit 1: Computer Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Classification of Computers Basics of computer and its operation Functional components and their interconnections Concept of booting
Chapter 2: Software Concepts Types of Software System software Utility software Application software
Chapter 3: System Software Operating system Complier Interpreter and assembler
Chapter 4: Operating System Need for operating system Functions of operating system − Processor management Memory management File management Device management Types of operating system-interactive (GUI based) Time sharing Real time and distributed Commonly used operating system − UNIX LINUX Windows Solaris BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) Mobile OS Android Symbian
Chapter 5: Utility Software Anti-Virus File Management tools Compression tools Disk Management tools − Disk Cleanup Disk Defragmenter Backup
Chapter 6: Open Source Concepts Open source software Freeware, shareware Proprietary software
Chapter 7: 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 Weather forecasting system
Chapter 8: Number System Binary Octal Decimal Hexadecimal Conversion between two different number systems
Chapter 9: Internal Storage encoding of Characters ASCII ISCII (Indian Scripts Standard Code for Information Interchange) UNICODE (for multilingual computing)
Chapter 10: Microprocessor Basic concepts Clock speed (MHz, GHz) − 16 bit 32 bit 64 bit 128 bit processors Types − CISC Processors (Complex Instruction Set Computing) RISC Processors (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing)
Chapter 11: Memory Concepts Units − Byte Kilo Byte Mega Byte Giga Byte Tera Byte Peta Byte Exa Byte Zetta Byte Yotta Byte
Chapter 12: Primary Memory Cache RAM ROM
Chapter 13: Secondary Memory Fixed and Removable storage Hard Disk Drive CD/DVD Drive Pen Drive Blue Ray Disk
Chapter 14: Input Output Ports/ Connections Serial Parallel and Universal Serial Bus PS-2 port Infrared port Bluetooth Firewire
Unit 2: Programming Methodology
Chapter 15: General Concepts Clarity and simplicity of expressions Use of proper names for identifiers Comments Indentation Documentation Program maintenance Running and debugging programs Syntax errors Run-time errors Logical errors
Chapter 16: Problem solving methodologies Understanding of the problem Solution for the problem Breaking down solution into simple steps (modular approach) Identification of arithmetic and logical operations required for solution Control structure - conditional control and looping (finite and infinite)
Chapter 17: Problem Solving Introduction to algorithms/flowcharts Unit 3: Introduction to Python
Chapter 18: Getting Started Introduction to Python: An integrated high level language Interactive mode and script mode Data types − Number (Integer - boolean, decimal, octal, hexadecimal; Floating point; Complex), none, Sequence (String, Tuples, List) Sets Mapping
Chapter 19: Mutable and Immutable Variables
Chapter 20: 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 statement) Putting Comments
Chapter 21: 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 random module to generate random numbers Composition
Chapter 22: Defining functions Invoking functions Passing parameters (default parameter values, keyword arguments) Scope of variables Void functions and functions returning values Flow of execution
Chapter 23: Conditional constructs and looping If else statement while For (range function) Break Continue Else Pass Nested if Nested loops Use of compound expression in conditional and looping construct Unit 3: Introduction to C++
Chapter 24: Getting Started C++ character set C++ Tokens (Identifiers, Keywords, Constants, Operators,) 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 Compilation Error Messages Use of editor Basic commands of editor Compilation Linking Execution
Chapter 25: 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 Variables of built-in-datatypes Declaration/Initialization of variables Assignment statement Type modifier: signed, unsigned, long
Chapter 26: Operator and Expressions: Operators Arithmetic operators (-,+,*,/,%) Assignment operator(=) C++ shorthands (+=,- =,*=,/=,%=) Unary operator (-) Increment(++) and Decrement (--) Operators Relation operator (>,>=,<=,=,!=) Logical operators (!,&&,II) Conditional operator Precedence of Operators Automatic type conversion in expressions Type casting
Unit 3: Programming with Python
Chapter 27: Strings Creating Initialising and accessing the elements String operators − +, *, in, not in, range slice [n:m] Comparing strings using relational operators String functions & methods − len, capitalize, find, isalnum, isalpha, isdigit, lower, islower, isupper, upper, lstrip, rstrip, isspace, istitile, partition, replace, join, split, count, decode, encode, swapcase, String constants, Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching
Chapter 28: Lists Concept of mutable lists Creating Initializing and accessing the elements Traversing Appending Updating and deleting elements Composition Lists as arguments
Chapter 29: List operations Joining Slicing + * in not in
Chapter 30: List functions and methods len( ) insert( ) append( ) extend( ) sort( ) remove( ) reverse( ) pop( ) list( ) count( ) extend( ) index( ) cmp( ) max( ) min( )
Chapter 31: Dictionaries Concept of key-value pair Creating, initialising and accessing the elements in a dictionary Traversing Appending Updating Deleting elements
Chapter 32: Dictionary functions and methods cmp( ) len( ) clear( ) get( ) has_key( ) items( ) key( ) update( ) values( ) pop( ) fromkeys( ) dict( )
Chapter 33: Tuples Immutable concept Creating Initialising and accessing elements in a tuple Tuple assignment Tuple slices Tuple indexing
Chapter 34: Tuple Functions cmp() len() max() min() tuple() index() count() sum() any() all() sorted() reversed()
Unit 4: Programming In C++
Chapter 35: Flow of control Conditional statements − if else Nested if switch..case..default Nestedswitch..case break statement (to be used in switch..case only) Loops: while, do - while, for and Nested loops
Chapter 36: Inbuilt Functions Standard input/output functions - stdio.h: gets ( ), puts ( ) Character Functions - Ctype.h: isalnum ( ), isalpha ( ),isdigit ( ), islower ( ), isupper ( ), tolower ( ), toupper ( ) String Function - string.h: strcpy ( ), strcat ( ), strlen ( ), strcmp ( ), strcmpi ( ), strev ( ),strlen ( ), strupur ( ), strlwr ( ) Mathematical Functions - math.h: fabs ( ), pow ( ), sgrt ( ), sin ( ), cos ( ), abs ( ) Other Functions - stdlib.h: randomize ( ), random ( )
Chapter 37: Introduction to user-defined function and its requirements Defining a function Function prototype Invoking/calling a function Passing arguments to function Specifying argument data types Default argument Constant argument Call by value Call by reference Returning values from a function Scope rules Local and global variables Relating to Parameters and return type concepts in built-in functions
Chapter 38: Structured Data Type Arrays − Introduction Advantages One Dimensional Array − Declaration/initialization of One-dimensional array Inputting array elements Accessing array elements manipulation of array elements (sum of elements, product of elements, average of elements linear search, finding maximum/minimum value) Declaration / Initialization of a String String manipulations (counting vowels/ consonants/ digits/ special characters, case conversion, reversing a string, reversing each word of a string) Two-dimensional Array − Declaration/initialization of a two-dimensional array Inputting array elements accessing array elements Manipulation of array elements (sum of row element, column elements, diagonal elements, finding maximum / minimum values) User-defined Data Types − Introduction to user defined data types Structure − Defining a Structure Declaring structure variables Accessing structure elements Passing structure to functions as value and reference Function returning structure Array of structure Defining a symbol name using typed ef keyword and defining a macro using #define preprocessor directive
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