Purbanchal University

Master in Computer Application (MCA) (Jestha, 2069)

Year: I Semester: I

Year: I Semester: II

Electives for MCA125 (Elective-I):

• Knowledge Management • Management Information System • Geographical Information System • Network Management & Administration • Data Mining & Data Warehousing • Software Testing (Proposed)

Subject Code

Subject Name Credit Lecture Tutorial Lab Total

MCA111 Discrete Mathematical Structures 3 3 1 - 4 MCA112 Web Programming 3 3 1 2 6 MCA113 Operating System 3 3 1 2 6 MCA114 Advanced Database Management

System 3 3 1 2 6

MCA115 Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

4 4 1 - 5

Total Credits 16 16 5 6 27

Subject Code

Subject Name Credit Lecture Tutorial Lab Total

MCA121 Research Methodology 3 3 1 - 4 MCA122 Visual Programming Language &

.Net 3 3 - 3 6

MCA123 Software Engineering 3 3 1 - 4 MCA124 Accounting & Financial

Management 3 3 1 - 4

MCA125 Elective-I 3 MCA126 Project-I 3 - - 4 4

Total Credits 18

Discrete Mathematical Structures Semester: I Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20 Final Exam: 80 Course Objective: The basic objective of the course is to impart knowledge to student on mathematical reasoning, combinatorial analysis, discrete structures, algorithmic thinking, and application and modeling so that students are able to learn a particular set of mathematical facts and how to apply them. Course Contents: 1. Fundamentals: Sets and Subsets, Operations on sets, Sequences, Division in the integers [5 hrs] 2. Logic: Propositions and logical operations, Conditional statements, Predicate and Quantifiers, Methods of proof, Mathematical induction. [4 hrs] 3. Counting: Permutations and combinations, Pigeonhole Principle, Recurrence relation, Solving recurrence relation by substitution [4 hrs] 4. Relations and Digraphs: Product sets and Partitions, Relations and Digraphs, Paths in relations and diagraphs, Properties of relations, Equivalence relations, Computer representation of relations and diagraphs, Manipulation of relations [6 hrs] 5. Functions: Functions, Composition of functions, Permutation functions [4 hrs] 6. Graph Theory: Graphs, Special families of graphs, Matrix representation of graphs, Euler paths and circuits, Hamiltonian paths and circuits [5 hrs] 7. Trees: Trees, Tree searching, Minimal spanning trees [5 hrs] 8. Algebraic Structures: General properties, Semi-groups, monoids groups, permutation groups, subgroups; homomorphism and isomorphism, group codes, error correcting codes [8 hrs] 9. Boolean Algebra: Definition and properties, Boolean functions, representing Boolean functions, logic gates, minimization of circuits [4 hrs] Reference Books: 1. Kolman, Busby & Ross, “Discrete Mathematical Structures”, PHI 2. Trembly J. P. & Manohar P., “Discrete Mathematical Structures with Applications to Computer

Science”, McGraw Hill 3. John Truss, "Discrete Mathematical Structures for Computer Science", Addison Wesley 4. Seymour Lipchutz, Marc Lipson, "Discrete Mathematics", Tata McGraw Hill

Web Programming Semester: I Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20+20 Final Exam: 60 Course Objective: This course introduces students to advanced and modern technologies being used in web solutions. This course also helps students to understand how these technologies related to each other and choose best technologies to be used for web solutions. Course Contents: 1. Introduction 7 Hrs

How Internet Works (Client/Server Architecture, Web-Server, Web-Client, DNS, ISP). Web-Hosting (Web Space, FTP), Client-side and Server-side Scripting

2. Server-side Scripting (PHP): 13 Hrs Introduction, Basic Syntax, Types, Variables, Constants, Operators, Control Structures, Functions, Error Handling, HTTP Authentication, Cookie, Session, Date and Time Functions, String Functions, HTTP Functions, Database (MySQL) Functions

3. XML 13 Hrs XML Introduction, Well-formed XML, XML Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, Namespaces, CSS, XSL/XSLT, DOM, SAX Parsers 4. Advanced Technology 6 Hrs Introduction, PHP Framework (Code-Igniter), JavaScript Framework (JQuery), DHTML with JQuery, Simple AJAX with JQuery, SOA, XML-Web Services & SOAP, Wireless Programming & WML 5. Case Study 6 Hrs Search Engines, Digital Libraries, E-commerce Applications, M-commerce, Content Syndication, Content Management System, RSS, and Digital Signature Reference Books: 1. Internet and Worldwide Web: How to Program, H Deitel, P Deitel &GoldsBerg, Prentice Hall,

3rd Edition. 2. Webmaster in a Nutshell, S Spainhour& B Eckstein, O'Reilly, 1999, 2nd Edition 3. Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build dynamic Web Sites, Leon Atkinson, Prentice Hall,

2nd Edition 4. COM/DCOM Unleashed, Randy Abernety, SAMS Series Books, 1st Edition

Operating System

Semester: I Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20+20 Final Exam: 60 Course Objective: This course is to introduce both the fundamental principles and the advance concepts for the development of multiprogramming and multiprocessing Operating Systems. It starts from history, concepts of processes and threads and incorporates basic concepts of distributed systems and real time systems towards the end. Course Contents: 1. Introduction of Operating System 4 Hrs

• Functions of operating system • Types of operating system • History of operating system • Structure of operating system

2. Process management 8 Hrs • Thread and process concept • Inter process communication (Critical-section problem, solving critical-section

problem with busy-waiting and sleep and wakeup strategies, Semaphores, Monitors)

• Process scheduling algorithms

3. Deadlock 4 Hrs • Principles of Deadlock • Resource status modeling • Conditions for deadlock • Methods for handling deadlocks (Prevention, Avoidance, Detection and Recovery)

4. Memory Management 8 Hrs • Introduction of memory management • Basic memory management mechanism • Memory allocation • Swapping and paging • Virtual memory • Page replacement algorithm • Segmentation with paging

5. File System 4 Hrs • Introduction to files • Directories • File system implementation

6. Input/Output 5 Hrs • Principles of I/O hardware • Principles of I/O software • Disks structure and scheduling • Clocks • Terminals

7. Protection and Security 4 Hrs • Protection mechanism (Access control list, capability list) • User authentication • Frauds and attacks • Trusted system

8. Distributed Operating System 8 Hrs

• Concept, advantages and types of distributed operating system • Design issues in distributed operating system • Communication and synchronization • Client-server computing • System state and event precedence • Algorithms for distributed control (Mutual exclusion, deadlock) • Distributed file system • Security

Case Study: LINUX, Windows and Mac (History, design principle, Kernel model, inter-process communication, Process management, scheduling, memory management, file system, Input and output, security) Reference Books:

• Modern Operating System, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, PHI • Operating System Design & Implementation, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, PHI • Operating System, Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, WILLY • Operating Systems, William Stallings, 4th Edition, Pearson Education • Operating Systems - Modern Perspective, Gary Nutt, 2nd Ed., Pearson Education • The C Odyssey Unix - The Open, Boundless C, M. Ghandi, T. Shetty, Rajiv Shah,

BPB Publications • Operating System Projects using Windows NT, Gary Nutt, Pearson Education • Advanced Unix Programming Environment, R. L. Stevens, Pearson Education • Beginning Linux Programming, Stones Richard, Matthew Neil, Wrox Publications

Advance Database Management System

Semester: I Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20+ 20 Final Exam: 60 Course Objective: After completing the course student will be able to design and understand the thorough implementation of Database System. Course Contents: 1. Introduction to DBMS Implementation 2 hrs Overview of a Database Management System, Data-Definition Language commands, Overview of query processing, Storage management overview, Main-memory buffers and the buffer manager, Transaction processing, Query processor, Information integration overview 2. Application Development 5 hrs Database application development: Accessing databases from Applications, JDBC, SQLJ, Stored procedures Internet applications: HTML documents, XML documents, Three-tier application architecture, The middle-tier 3. Data Storage 5 hrs The memory hierarchy, Secondary storage, RAID, Disk space management, Disk failures, Recovery from disk crashes 4. Index Structures 6 hrs Index on sequential files, Secondary indexes, B-trees, Hash tables, Overview of multi-dimensional indexes 5. Query Execution 6 hrs Algebra for queries, Physical query plan operators, Nested-loop, Joins, Index based algorithms, Buffer management 6. The Query Compiler 2 hrs Parsing, Algebraic laws for improving query plans 7. Coping with System Failures 5 hrs Issues and models for resilient operation, Undo / Redo logging, Protection against media failures 8. Concurrency Control 6 hrs Serial and serializable schedules, Conflict serializability, Enforcing serializability by locks, Concurrency control by timestamps, Concurrency control by validation 9. Parallel and Distributed Databases 2 hrs Introduction, Architecture for parallel databases, Parallel query optimization, Distributed database architecture 10. Object Database Systems 1 hr 11. Deductive Databases 1 hr 12. Data Warehousing and Decision Support 1 hr 13. Data Mining 1 hr 14. Information Retrieval and XML Data 1 hr 15. Spatial Data Management 1 hr Reference Books:

• R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke, Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill • Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom, Database System Implementation,

Pearson Education Asia, 2000 Laboratory Work: 1. Installing database software (Oracle/MSQL/MYSQL) and practice on following topics: SQL Statements (DML, DDL, DTL and DCL) SQL Clauses (WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, HAVING) SQL Operators (Logical Operators, Comparison Operators, LIKE, IN, IS NULL, BETWEEN....AND) SQL Integrity Constraints (Primary/Foreign/Unique Key Constraint, Check/Not NULL Constraints) Other SQL concepts (Aliases, Group Functions, JOINS, VIEWS, Sub-query, Index, GRANT, REVOKE) 2. Analyze query plan in database 3. Query optimization (indexing, partitions, and parallelism) 4. Query in distributed database environments using concept of link server in homogeneous and

heterogeneous environments (e.g. query oracle tables from MSSQL and vice versa) 5. Practice concurrency control and transaction management in database

Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

Semester: I Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20 Final Exam: 80 Course Contents: I. Human Resource Management (HRM) 1. Concept, roots, human resource management and personnel management, changing HRM

environmental forces, new mandate for human resource management, staff vs line function in management, organization of HRM functions. 4 Hrs

2. HRM system, international model of HRM, concept and framework for strategic HRM, line management responsibility for HRM, HRM and organizational performance. 3 Hrs

3. Job analysis and human resource planning: Concept, purposes of job analysis, collecting job

analysis information, methods of job analysis, concept of HR planning methods and techniques of determining HR requirements. 5 Hrs

4. Recruitment, selection and socialization: concepts, sources and methods of recruitment,

selection and its process, socialization in organization. 5 Hrs 5. Training and development: Concept of training and development, determining training needs,

methods of training and development--on-the-job and off-the-job training development, evaluation of training programs. 6 Hrs

6. Performance evaluation: concept and purposes, process, methods and feedback of evaluation. 3 Hrs 7. Compensation: Concept, considerations, establishing pay plan, job evaluation system, steps

and methods, incentives and benefit system in organization. 4 Hrs II. Organizational Behavior (OB) 1. Concept, importance and assumptions of OB, five conceptual anchors of organizational

behavior, emerging trends in organizational behavior. 3 Hrs 2. Understanding individual behavior: concept, behavior as an input output system, emotions,

beliefs, attitudes, values, needs, motives and behavior at work. 3 Hrs 3. Perception and personality: concepts, perceptual process, attribution theory and errors,

perception and decision making, personality traits and characteristics, personality ad behavior, major personality attributes influencing organizational behavior. 5 Hrs

4. Motivation and job satisfaction: concepts, theories of motivation – hierarchy of needs, hygiene-

motivation theory, McClelland’s theory, equity theory, goal setting and reinforcement theory. 5 Hrs 5. Leadership: concept, perspective of leadership, emerging approaches of leadership. 2 Hrs 6. Groups in organization: concept, types of groups, group processes. 2 Hrs 7. Communication: concept, process and method, communication networks, barrier to effective

communication, current issues in communication. 3 Hrs 8. Conflict: Concept, types of conflicts, approaches to conflict management, resolving conflict. 2 Hrs 9. Organizational change and development: concepts, forces for change, strategy for managing

planned change, Lewin Force Field Model, resistance to change, reducing resistance and approaches to managing change, organizational development interventions, objectives and goals of organizational development, the organizational development process and prerequisites to organizational development. 5 Hrs

Reference Books: 1. De Cenzo, D. & Robbins, S., Human Resource Management, Seventh Edition, Wiley 2. Arnold, H. J. & Fieldman, D. C., Organizational Behaviour, Tata McGraw Hill, India 3. Robbins, S., Organizational Behaviour, McMillan, India 4. Luthans, F., Organizational Behaviour, Tata McGraw Hill 5. Adhikari, D. R., Human Resource Management, Text & Cases, Manakamana Publication,

Kathmandu 6. Adhikari, D. R., Organisational Behaviour, Buddha Academy, Kathmandu 7. Agrawal, G. R., Dynamics of Human Resource Management, M. K. Publishing

Research Methodology

Semester: II Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20 Final Exam: 80 General Objective:

• State and explain the concept of research methods which can be applied to any research studies. Specific Objective:

• Provide knowledge to the students about different type of research, their process and applications. • Familiarize the students with different types of data collection techniques and their applications. • Develop an understanding of ethical issues and required consideration for their research studies. • Provide skills for the selection of sampling technique, errors and proper planning different sampling

methods. • Enable the research students in developing the most appropriate methodology for their research

study.

Course Contents: 1. Introduction 4 Hrs Meaning and Importance of Research, Classification of Research ,Research in Engineering Functions , The Research Process, Research as a scientific Process, Issues governing Research Function, Listing and description of Steps of research. 2. Research Design 4 Hrs Meaning and Importance of Research Design, Classification of Research Design, The Research Process, Variables, Hypothesis, Errors Affecting Research Design, Measurements and Scaling, Reliability and validity test of research, Pilot test, field study, Issues Governing Research Design 3. Development of Research 9 Hrs

Selection of research topics, Research problem vs. research question, Meaning and Importance of Research Proposal, Classification of Research Proposals, Components of a Research Proposal, Manager-Researcher Contribution in Developing a Research Proposal, Evaluation a Research Proposal, The Development of Research Issues Governing Proposal 4. Sampling Decisions 4 Hrs Sampling Vs. Census, Sampling Techniques, Issues Governing Sampling Decisions 5. Data Collection Methods 8 Hrs Meaning, Importance and Types of Data, Methods of Data Collection, Steps of Data processing and Presentation, Various Methods of Data Collection 6. Data Reduction and Analysis 5 Hrs

Meaning and Importance of Data Reduction, Data Reduction Process, Selected Techniques of Data Analysis 7. Formatting the report 4 Hrs

Formatting a Report, Developing the Final Draft, Preparing for Citation and Referencing Making an Oral Presentation of a Report

8. Development of Research Proposal 3 Hrs Meaning and Importance of research proposal ; the Development of Research Issues Governing Proposal; Writing a research report- Developing an outline; Key elements of research proposal- Objective, Introduction, Design or Rationale of work, Experimental Methods, Procedures, Measurements, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Referencing and various formats for reference writing of books and research papers; Publications in Research journals 9. Socio-Ethical Issues in Research 4 Hrs

Issues governing Research Function, Incorporating Socio-Ethical Issues in Research Impact of Social Issues in Research

. Reference Books:

1. Cooper & Schindler (2004), Business Research Methods, New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. 2. Best, John W., Research In Education, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi 3. Wolf Howard K. & P. R Pant, Social Science Research & Thesis Writing, Research Division, Kirtipur 4. Goode William J. & Paul K. Hatt, Methods in Social Research, McGraw Hill Kogakusha Ltd. 5. Kothari, C. R., Research Methodology, 2nd Revised Edition, New International Publisher

Visual Programming Language & .Net Semester: II Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20+20 Final Exam: 60 Course Objective: To develop an understanding of how to design an effective graphical user interface (GUI), how to analyze a problem and design a program structure to solve the problem using an event driven programming language, Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net. Course Contents: 1. Introduction: Character based system, Graphical User Interface, Visual Programming, Visual Interface components, Event Driven Programming [3 hrs] 2. Models of Interface design: Conceptual model, Implementation model, the manifest model, modeling from users point of view [3 hrs] 3. The Form: Interface paradigms (Metaphor, Idioms and branding, Affordances), Child forms (Usage of window space, Windows pollution), Platform dependence (Development platform, Multi-Platform development, Interoperability) [5 hrs] 4. User-Computer Interaction: Mouse (Indirect manipulation, Mouse events Focus and cursor hints), Selection (Indicating selection, Insertion and replacement, Additive selection, Group selection), Gizmos Manipulation (Repositioning, Resizing, Reshaping, Visual feedback of manipulation), Drag and Drop (Source and target, Problems and solutions, Drag and Drop mechanism) [6 hrs] 5. The Cast: Menu Design Issue (Drop Down menus, Pop-up menus, Hierarchy of menu), Menus and its types (Standard menus, Optional menus, System menu, Menu item variation), Dialog Boxes (Dialog box basics, Suspension of interaction, Modal and Modeless dialog boxes, Problems in Modeless dialog boxes, Different types of dialog boxes), Dialog box conventions (Caption bar, Attributes, Terminating dialog boxes, Expanding dialog boxes, Cascading dialog boxes), Toolbars (Advantages over menus, Momentary button and latching button, Customizing toolbars) [6 hrs] 6. .Net Programming [22 hrs] � Language Syntax, Data types, operators, Conditional Statements, Control Structures � Concept of OOP (E.g. class, objects, methods, properties, encapsulation, inheritance,

overloading) � ASP. Net Controls and Presentation Techniques � Working with Forms and Control � Validation Controls � Web Site Navigation, Menu and View Controls � Data Grid and Repeater � Emailing Concepts � Error Handling, Debugging and Tracing ASP.NET Application � Managing State in ASP.NET Application � Enhancing Web Sites using Master Pages and Theme � Deploying Application Reference Books:

1. Alan Cooper, The Essential of User Interface Design, Comdex Computer Publishing 2. Evangelos Petroutsos, Mark Ridgeway, Visual Basic .NET Developer’s Handbook, BPB

Publications 3. Evangelos Petroutsos, Mastering Visual Basic 6, BPB Publications 4. Tony Gaddis, Kip Irvine, Bruce Denton, Starting Out With Visual Basic .NET Programming,

Dreamtech Press 5. Wiley,Beginning Visual C# 2008, Wrox 6. Fergal Grimes, Microsoft .Net for Programmers, (SPI) 7. Balagurusamy, Programming with C#, (TMH) 8. Mark Michaels, Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5, 2/e, Pearson Education

Software Engineering

Semester: II Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20 Final Exam: 80 Course Objective: This course would provide students with an over view of software engineering and would enable to understand and appreciate the following. Course Contents: I. Introduction to Software Engineering 5 hrs Need of software engineering, software vs. hardware characteristics, scope and ethical issues Software Process Models: waterfall, spiral, prototyping, fourth generation techniques, win-win spiral model, agile methodology 2. Software Requirement and Specification 5 hrs Requirement elicitation (traditional and modern approach), requirements analysis modeling techniques, functional and nonfunctional requirements, preparing a SRS document 3. Software Project Planning 8 hrs Objectives, Decomposition Techniques: s/w sizing, problem based estimation, process based estimation, Cost Estimation Models: COCOMO model, the software equation, System Analysis: principles of structured analysis, risk analysis, requirement analysis, DFD, entity relationship diagram, data dictionary 4. Software Design 5 hrs Objectives, principles, concepts, design mythologies: data design, architecture design, procedural design, object–oriented concepts 5. Software Quality Assurance 5 hrs Quality concepts, software quality assurance activities, software reviews, formal technical reviews, software reliability 6. Software Configuration Management 6 hrs Basic concepts, SCM process, identification of objects in software configuration, version control, change control, configuration audit, status reporting, SCM standards 7. Software Testing 6 hrs Objectives, principles, testability, test cases: white box & black box testing, testing strategies: verification & validation, unit test, integration testing, validation testing, system testing 8. Software Evolution 5 hrs Software maintenance, characteristics of maintainable software, reengineering, legacy software, software reuse Reference Books: 1. Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach”, McGraw Hill 2. R. E. Fairly, “Software Engineering Concepts”, McGraw Hill 3. Sommerville I., “Software Engineering”, 6th Edition PEA

Accounting & Financial Management

Semester: II Full Marks: 100 Credit Hr: 3 Internal: 20 Final Exam: 80 Course Objective: The objective of the course is to provide the students with an understanding of the concepts, principles, and techniques of Accounting and Financial Management and their application in real life situations. It specifically aims at imparting the students with necessary knowledge and skills required for understanding accounting and making financial decisions. Course Contents: Nature of Financial Management, financial statements and cash flows, financial analysis, time value of money, valuation of bonds, valuation of stocks, cost of capital, capital budgeting, working capital management, and dividend policy. 1. Introduction of Accounting and Financial Management 3 Hrs Meaning of accounting and finance, difference between finance and accounting, Importance of managerial finance, finance functions, finance in the organizational structure of the firm, goals of the firm. 2. Financial Statements and Cash Flows 5 Hrs Understanding financial statements: the balance sheet, the income statement, and analysis of cash flows. 3. Financial Analysis 5 Hrs Meaning of financial statement analysis, types and method of financial statement analysis. Financial ratio analysis: Liquidity ratios, efficiency ratios, profitability rations, activity ratio. 4. Time Value of Money 4 Hrs Meaning and importance of time value of money. Future value and compounding, present value and discounting, finding out the discount rate, finding out the number of periods, and amortization. 5. Valuation of Bonds 4 Hrs Meaning and nature of bond, key features of bond, financial asset valuation, valuation of bond, yield to maturity, current yield, capital gains yield, and semiannual bonds. 6. Valuation of Stocks 5 Hrs Features of common stock, common stock valuation, and normal growth, zero growth, and super normal growth, Corporation, valuation of preferred stock. 7. Cost of Capital 4 Hrs Cost of capital components, cost of debt, preferred stock, and equity, and weighted average cost of capital. 8. Capital Budgeting 6 Hrs Ranking investment proposals: payback, discounted payback, net present value, internal rate of return, and modified IRR. 9. Working Capital Management 5 Hrs Concept and importance of working capital, working capital cash flow cycle. 10. Dividend Policy 4 Hrs Dividend payments, payment procedure, factors influencing dividend policy, stock dividends, and stock splits.

Reference Books: 1. Radhe Shyam Pradhan, Financial Management, Buddha Academic Publishers, Kathmandu 2. Eugene F. Brigham, Louis C. Gapenski & Michael C. Ehrhardt, Financial Management:

Theory & Practice, Harcourt Asia PTE. Ltd., Delhi 3. James C., Van Horne, Financial Management & Policy, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi 4. Radhe S. Pradhan, Research in Nepalese Finance, Buddha Academic Publishers &

Distributors, Kathmandu