Syllabus-Computer Science-Class-10

Computer Applications

CLASS X (Code 165) (2021-22)

Learning Outcome  

1. Ability to create a simple website
2. Ability to embed images, audio and video in an HTML page
3. Ability to use style sheets to beautify the web
4. Ability to write iterative programs with Scratch/Python.
5. Ability to Interface a web site with a web server and record the details of a user’s
6. Ability to follow basic cyber ethics
7. Ability to familiarize with network

Distribution of Marks and Periods

Unit 1: Networking

• Internet: World Wide Web, web servers,  web  clients,  web  sites,  web  pages,

web browsers, blogs, news groups, HTML, web address, e-mail address, downloading and uploading files from a remote site. Internet protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, HTTPS. Remote login and file transfer protocols: SSH, SFTP, FTP, SCP, TELNET, SMTP, TCP/IP.

• Services available on the internet: information retrieval, locating sites using search engines and finding people on the net;
• Web services: chat,    email,    video   conferencing,   e-Learning,   e-Banking, eShopping, e-Reservation, e-Governance, e-Groups, social
• Mobile technologies: SMS, MMS, 3G, 4G.

Unit 2: HTML

• Introduction to web page designing using HTML: create and save an HTML document, access a web page using a web
• HTML tags: html, head, title, body, (attributes: text, background, bgcolor, link, vlink, alink), br             (break), hr(horizontal  rule),                 inserting                coemnts,    h.h6 (heading), p (paragraph), b (bold), i (italics), u (underline), ul (unordered list), ol (ordered list),  and li  (list  item).  Description lists:  dl, dt and dd. Attributes of ol (start, type), ul (type).
• Font tags (attributes: face, size, color).
• Insert images: img (attributes: src, width, height, alt), sup (super script), sub (subscript).
• HTML Forms: Textbox, radio buttons, checkbox, password, list,
• Embed audio and video in a HTML
• Create a table using the tags: table, tr, th, td, rowspan, colspan
• Links: significance of linking, anchor element (attributes: href, mailto),
• Cascading style sheets: colour, background-colour, border-style, margin, height, width, outline, font (family, style, size), align,

Unit 3: Cyber ethics

• Software licenses and the open source software
• Intellectual property rights, plagiarism and digital property
• Freedom of information and the digital
• E-commerce: Privacy, fraud, secure data

Unit 4: Scratch or Python (Theory and Practical) Alternative 1: Scratch

• Revision of the basics of Scratch
• Sprite, tempo, variables, and events
• Coordinates and conditionals
• Drawing with iteration
• Update variables repeatedly, iterative development, ask and answer blocks
• Create games, animated images, stories and songs

OR

Alternative 2: Python

• Revision of Python basics
• Conditionals: if, if-else statements
• Loops: for, while (e.g., sum of first 10 natural numbers)
• Practice simple programs

5.  Lab Exercises

• Create static web
• Use style sheets to enforce a format in an HTML page (CSS).
• Embed pictures, audio and videos in an HTML
• Add tables and frames in an HTML
• Decorate web pages using graphical
• Create a website using several webpages. Students may use any open source or proprietary
• Write with HTML forms:  text  box,  radio  buttons,  checkbox,  password,  list, combo box.
• Write a blog  using  HTML  pages  discussing  viruses,  malware,  spam  and antiviruses
• Create a web page discussing plagiarism. List some reported cases of plagiarism and the consequent punishment meted out. Explain the nature of the punishment in different countries as per their IP laws.
• Create simple stories with Scratch (involving at least two objects/characters) and iteration OR write programs for finding the sum/product of first n natural numbers using Python

Breakup of Marks for the practicals: