About Course

The “Technical Skills” course covers essential subjects, including operating systems, computer networks, object-oriented programming, and database management systems. This course aims to provide students with a foundational understanding of these key topics in computer science and information technology. This course is designed with foundation topics which are necessary for industry and academic progression.

Course Syllabus

Operating System

System calls, processes, threads, inter‐process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlock. CPU and I/O scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory. File systems.

Computer Networks

Concept of layering: OSI and TCP/IP Protocol Stacks; Basics of packet, circuit and virtual circuitswitching; Data link layer: framing, error detection, Medium Access Control, Ethernet bridging; Routing protocols: shortest path, flooding, distance vector and link state routing; Fragmentation and IP addressing: IPv4, CIDR notation, Basics of IP support protocols (ARP, DHCP, ICMP), Network Address Translation (NAT); Transport layer: flow control and congestion control, UDP, TCP, sockets; Application layer protocols: DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, Email.

OOP

Java features, OOP principles, object oriented thinking, Encapsulation: class, object, Inheritancetypes of inheritance, aggregation and generalization , Polymorphism: Static and Dynamic Polymorphism, Abstraction- Abstract class and Interface.

Database Management Systems:

ER‐model, Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL. Integrity constraints, normal forms, File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees). Transactions and concurrency control.

References:

• Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne., ,Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition, Wiley India Private Limited, New Delhi,2009.
• S.Tanenbaum.,Computer Networks , 6th Edition, Pearson Education/ PHI, New Delhi, India, 2003
• Herbert Schildt, Java: The Complete Reference, 11th Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Education,

• Raghurama Krishnan, Johannes Gehrke., Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition,Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, India, 2014.