CBSE CCE Syllabus of FIT for Class X 2011
Foundation of Information Technology (FIT)
Class X
TERM I3 Hours 80 Marks| Unit | Description | Theory |
| 1 | Basics of Information Technology | 25 |
| 2 | Information Processing Tools | 30 |
| 3 | IT Applications | 25 |
| 80 |
Term I (Theory)
Unit I: Basics of Information TechnologyInternet: World Wide Web, Web servers, Web sites, Web Pages, Web Browsers, Blogs, Newsgroups, HTML, Web address, Email address, URL, HTTP;Services available on Internet: Information Retrieval, Locating sites using search engines and finding people on the net, FTP, Downloading and Uploading files from or two remote site;Web Services: Chat, email, Video Conferencing, e-Learning, e-Banking, e-Shopping, e-Reservation, e-Groups, Social NetworkingUnit II: Information Processing ToolsOffice ToolsDatabase Management Tool :Basic Concepts and need for a database, Creating a database, Setting the Primary Key, Entering data into a database, Inserting and deleting Fields, Inserting and deleting Records, Data Validation: Field Size, Default Value, Validation Rule, Validation Text, Required, Allow Zero Length.Information Representation MethodsHyper Text Markup LanguageIntroduction to Web Page Designing using HTML, Creating and saving an HTML document, accessing a web page using a web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari, Netscape Navigator, Google Chrome);Elements in HTML: Container and Empty elements, Designing web pages using the following elements:HTML, HEAD, TITLE, BODY (Attributes: background, bgcolor, text, link, alink, vlink, leftmargin, topmargin), FONT(Attributes: color, size, face),BASEFONT(Attributes: color, size, face), CENTER, BR (Break), HR(Horizontal Rule, Attributes: size, width, align, noshade, color), COMMENTS, ! for comments, H1..H6 (Heading), P (Paragraph), B (Bold), I (Italics), U (Underline), UL & OL (Unordered List & Ordered List Attributes: type, start), LI (List Item),Unit III: IT ApplicationsStudents are suggested to work on the following areas using Database Management Tool on topics implementing the tools covered in the course.Domains:Business Computing- Personal Data Management System
- School/Class Result with student-wise and subject-wise marks
- Employee Payroll (Computation of monthly salary)
- Stock Inventory (Purchase and issue records)
- Setting the primary key
- Data Validation
- Adding a title to webpage
- Formatting Text
- Adding Ordered/Unordered Lists
- Writing Text in Paragraphs
- 4 Database Solutions from Business Computing
- 4 HTML source code along with browser view
| Unit | Description | Theory |
| 2 | Information Processing Tools | 30 |
| 3 | IT Applications | 33 |
| 4 | Societal impacts of IT | 17 |
| Total | 80 |
Term II (Theory)
Unit II: Information Processing Tools Information Representation Methods Hyper Text Markup LanguageTERM II80 Marks Insertion of images using the element IMG (Attributes: SRC, WIDTH, HEIGHT, ALT, ALIGN), Super Script SUP, Subscript SUB, Creating Table TABLE(BACKGROUND, BGCOLOR, WIDTH, CELLSPACING, CELLPADDING, BORDER), TR, TD, ROWSPAN, COLSPANInternal and External Linking between Web Pages: Significance of linking, A -Anchor Element (Attributes: name, href, title, alt)XMLIntroduction to XML, Difference between XML and HTML with respect to the following:Data separation, data sharing, document structure, tags, nesting of elements, attributes, values.XML Elements – Defining own tags in XML, root elements, child elements and their attributes;Comments in XML, White space and new line in XML, well formed XML documents, validating XML documents, XML Parser, Viewing XML documents in a web browser.Unit III: IT ApplicationsStudents are suggested to work on the following areas using HTML on topics implementing the elements covered in the course.Domains:Website Designing- Personal Blog with Name, Photo, Areas of Interest, School, State, Country
- School Website – Infrastructure, Facilities, Uniform, Motto, School Pictures, Extra-Curricular Activities, Subject and Language Options
- Travel and Tourism
- Indian Statistics – State wise Area, Population, Literacy (Enrolment in Primary, Middle, Secondary, Senior Secondary), Gender Ratio,
- Environment (Save Energy) and Pollution (Global Warming)
- Adding a title to webpage
- Formatting Text
- Inserting Image
- Adding Ordered/Unordered Lists
- Writing Text in Paragraphs
- Adding content in Tabular Form
- 4 HTML source code along with browser view
- 2 XML Documents