Advance Diploma in Computer Application &
Web Design (ADCA-Web)

I. CF (Computer Fundamental)

1. Computer Concepts

• What is a computer?
• Computer Types
• Distributed or Grid Computing

2. Input System

• Types of Input, Keyboard
• Keys of Computer Keyboard
• Pointing Devices
• Mouse, Trackball, Glidepad
• Game Devices
• Pen Input, Touchscreen, Digitizers and Graphics Tablets, Terminals
• Multimedia, Sound Input, Voice Input
• Video Input, Data Automation

3. Processing System

• Digital Data, Digital Codes
• Parity
• Central Processing Unit, ALU
• Applications, Control Unit, CPU, Input/Output Storage
• Main Memory, Operating System, Unused Storage, Working Storage, Machine Cycle
• The Machine Cycle, Speed, Memory Addresses
• Processor Speed
• Physical Components, Microprocessor
• Memory Devices, Speed, Motherboards
• Connectors, ISA slots, Keyboard plug , Memory slots, PO slots
• Power connections, Processor socket

4. Output System

• Types of Output, Categories of Output
• Printer Features
• Printer Types
• Screen (Monitor) Features, Making Colored Pictures
• Resolution
• Type of Screens
• Other Devices
• Data projectors, Large Format Printers, Microfilm (COM), Sound

5. Computer Storage

• Diskette / Floppy Disk
• Disk Format
• Disk Capacity
• Caring for Disks
• Anti-virus, Magnetic Tape
• Optical Disks
• Other Devices, Flash Memory, USB drive
• Removable hard drives, Mass storage, Smart cards, Optical cards

II. Operating System :

1. Using Windows XP

• Logging into Windows XP, Switching Accounts
• Switching Users
• Shut Down Before Leaving, Turning Off Your Computer
• My Computer
• How to Minimize Windows, Enlarging Windows
• A Window's Menu, Managing the Window Contents
• A Window's Toolbar
• Managing the Toolbar, Choose a new desktop theme
• Choose a desktop background, Increase the size of Windows text fonts
• Change your screen resolution
• Personal folders
• Using Fonts
• Connect to a printer
• Print a file, Check on the printing of your file
• Stop printing your file, Printer drivers
• Changing printing preferences

3. Using MS Windows Vista

• The basic user experience
• Using your mouse in Windows Vista
• Basic parts
• Holding and moving the mouse
• Pointing, clicking, and dragging
• Clicking (single-clicking)
• Double-clicking
• Right-clicking
• Dragging
• Using the scroll wheel
• Customizing your mouse
• The Desktop
• Working with desktop icons
• Adding and removing icons from the desktop
• The Recycle Bin
• The Start button menu
• The Search box
• What's in the right pane?
• The taskbar
• Using Windows Flip 3D
• Windows Sidebar and gadgets
• Turning off your computer properly
• Use the Power button on the Start menu
• Printing in Windows Vista
• Printer types and technologies
• Connecting a printer
• Security and safe computing
• Check your security status with Windows Security Center
• Use a firewall

[Internet and E-mail]
16. Computer Communication

• Communications Channel
• Transmission Media. Cable
• Broadcast, Wireless (infrared, light, radio), Microwave
• Satellite, Communication Signal
• Modems. Transmission Rate
• Digital, Analog, Physical types, External. Internal
• Acoustical, Digital Modems
• Types of Digital Modems
• Protocols
• Software, Dialing, File Transfer
• Terminal Emulation
• Data Encryption. Computer Networks
• LAN, WAN
• Network Configurations, Star. Bus
• Ring. Connecting Networks. Network Servers
• File Server, Client Server

17. Using Internet by Internet Explorer 7

• Display the Interact Explorer menu, Finding the information on the Net
• Use the Instant Search box
• Use the Address bar
• Use more than one search provider
• Search more efficiently, Tabbed browsing
• Keeping track of your favorite web pages, Set the current webpage as the home page
• Sharing favorites
• Enter web information more easily
• Zoom in on a webpage
• Using Quick Tabs
• How do I open Quick Tabs')
• Why do I need to activate controls on web pages I visit?
• Search from the Address bar
• What is a feed (RSS)?. Discover a feed
• Preview the appearance of a printed webpage
• Saving pictures from a webpage
• Security and Privacy
• Does the website ask you for personal information?
• On a retail website, is there a way to contact someone by phone or mail?
• Does the software have a digital signature?
• What is a pop-up window?
• What's a digital signature?
• Delete webpage history

18. Using E-mail by Outlook 2003

• Make Outlook the default program for E-mail
• Start Outlook showing my Calendar, Contacts, or Tasks
• E-mail accounts in Outlook
• How to connect to your e-mail server (connecting/dialing)
• Connecting to your e-mail server
• Connection behaviors
• Add an e-mail account
• Remove an e-mail account
• Change an e-mail account name.
• Create a Send/Receive group
• Modify a Send/Receive group, Make an e-mail account the default
• Specify which e-mail account to use to send a message
• Update Outlook with your new e-mail account password
• View or change e-mail account settings
• Work with POPS messages on multiple computers, Open a data file
• Use the Inbox Repair tool
• Working offline, Remove offline items, Junk E-mail Filter
• Junk E-mail Lists
• E-mail account types and the junk E-mail Filter, Change the level of junk e-mail protection
• Print an e-mail message and attachment
• Viruses in e-mail attachments
• Using passwords
• Remove or change a password, Change your Web start page. Change your Web search page

1 What is Multimedia?

• Interactive Multimedia
• Advantages of Interactive Multimedia
• Where to Use Interactive Multimedia
• What is Hypermedia? , Composition, Mechanisms
• Text, Graphics, Audio, Film, Video
• The Stages of a Multimedia Projects, Planning
• Design, Development

PART- I: 2-D Animation
Macromedia Flash 8

2. Macromedia Flash 8: An Introduction

• Installing and activating Flash
• Flash Player, Creating or opening a document and setting properties
• Intemface of Macromedia Flash 8
• Using document tabs for multiple documents
• Saving Flash documents
• Saving and version control
• Adding media content in Flash document
• Creating motion and interactivity, Components in Flash
• Managing media assets with the library
• ActionScript, Nested movie clips, Scenes
• Working with scenes
• Movie Explorer
• History panel

3. Macromedia Flash Working with Drawings

• Vector graphics, Bitmap graphics
• Flash drawing models
• Flash drawing and painting tools
• Selecting objects, Combining objects, Drawing with the Pencil tool
• Drawing straight lines, ovals, and rectangles
• Drawing polygons and stars, Using the Pen tool
• Drawing curved paths with the Pen tool
• Adjusting anchor points on paths
• Painting with the Brush tool
• Reshaping lines and shape outlines, Reshaping using the Selection tool
• Optimizing curves
• Snapping, Object snapping
• Specifying drawing settings

4. Macromedia Flash 8: Working with. Graphics

• Selecting objects
• Moving, copying, and deleting objects
• Transforming objects, Working with the center point during transformations
• Distorting objects
• Aligning objects

5. Macromedia Flash 8: Creating Motion

• Using Timeline effects
• Tweened animation, Frame-by-frame animation, layers in animation
• Frame rates, Extending still images
• Distributing objects to layers for tweened animation
• New layers, Tweening instances, groups, and type
• Editing animation
• Using onion skinning
• Moving an entire animation
• Using mask layers
• Working with Video, Progressively downloading video
• Embedding video in a SWF file
• Linked QuickTime video, Digital video and Flash
• Supported file formats for video, Embedding video in a SWF file
• Playing your Flash SWF files, Using Flash Player

PART-II, 3-D Animation
Maya and 3-D Studio Max

6. Maya : Interface Introduction

7. Maya: Animation in Maya

• Previewing animation, Playback
• Ghosting animated objects
• Motion Trails, Playblast, Muting animation
• Adding sound to your animation, Importing sound, Baking simulations
• Animation Snapshot and Animated Sweep
• Sound File, Start Time, Playblast, Working Units (Time)
• Timeline, Playback Start/End, Animation Start/End, Height, Key Ticks, Timecode
• Snapping, Timecode Offset, Playback (Update View), Active
• Repeat on Hold, Repeat Size, Playblast
• Use contiguous audio files with animation
• Keys clipboard, Driven keys, Breakdowns, Inbetweens
• Nonlinear animation, The Trax Editor
• Character Mapper, Visor, Outliner, Clip Library, Create clips

8. Maya: Using Skeletons

• Using skeletons
• Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Blending 1K and FK
• Skinning your character, Smooth Skinning, Rigid Skinning, Indirect skinning
• Creating deformation effects, Deformers as modeling tools
• Point constraints, Orient constraints, Parent constraints, Scale constraints
• Character sets, Skeletons, Skeleton components, Joints and bones
• Create a joint chain with an IK handle, Label the skeleton's joints
• Skinning, Deformable objects and skin objects
• Double transformation effects, Point tweaking skinned objects
• Smooth skin point weights, Weighting based on skeleton hierarchy

9. Maya: Dynamics

• Particles
• Emittersm, Create emitters, Sprites
• Spheres, To set Spheres render type, Blobby surface, Fields, Stand-alone fields
• Volume fields, Air field, Effects, Smoke effects, Animating with dynamics
• Dynamic relationship editor

10. 3-D Studio Max

• Create Objects
• Lights and Cameras, Materials and Effects, Keyframe Animation
• Procedural Simulations, Constraints and Controllers
• Animation Modifiers, Camera Animation, Rendering
• The Viewports, Animation playback controls, Keyframe animation controls
• Time slider, Track bar, Title bar, Menu bar, Tab Panel, Main Toolbar, Undo and Redo
• Link Tools, Selection Tools, Crossing/Window Selection
• Manipulate Mode, Select and Transform Tools, Reference Coordinate System
• Axis constraints toolbar, Array Flyout, Named Selection Sets
• Mirror, Align Flyout, Track View-Curve Editor, Schematic View
• Material Editor, Rendering Tools, Customizing the User Interface
• Modeling the Planets
• Bouncing a Ball
• Creating a Leg with Bones, Skin and Flex Modifiers
• Using Particle Effects to Model Smoke, Water, and More
• Adding Camera Shake, Using Camera Match, Preparing the Scene, Basic Steps
• Placing 3D Camera Points, Creating Stand-in Geometry, Placing CamPoints
• Setting up a rendering background
• Assigning 2D Camera Screen Points, Assigning the first screen point
• Using Camera Tracker
• Using the RAM Player
• Saving your work, Creating the matching camera
• Move Smoothing and Compositing

PART-III Video and Sound Editing
Adobe Premier and Sound Forge

11. Adobe Premier

• System requirements
• Working with a project
• Changing the startup window, Working with palettes
• Online editing, Offline editing
• Connecting the analog video source, Connecting the DV video source
• Digitizing analog video as DV
• Preparing for analog capture, Preparing for DV video capture
• Batch-capturing video, Reading timecode from source video
• Capturing analog audio
• Using the Monitor window
• Viewing safe zones, Using Monitor window controllers
• Selecting an editing workspace, Using the Timeline window
• Moving around in the Timeline, Adding, naming, and deleting tracks
• Specifying source and target tracks
• Locking and unlocking tracks
• Editing In and Out points
• Using markers
• Adding multiple clips using an automated process
• Creating a storyboard
• Moving clips in time
• Cutting and pasting clips and clip settings
• Previewing a video program
• Transitions, Using the Transitions palette
• Working with the Audio Mixer window
• Creating and setting up a new title
• Exporting video from Premiere, File types available for export
• N1PEG video, MP3 audio, Video file for CD-ROM playback
• Exporting a video

12. Sound Editing: Sound Forge

• Data Windows, Open a workspace, Save a workspace
• Working with Projects
• Extracting Audio from CDs
• Publishing Files, Getting Media from the Web
• Creating CDs Tools Menu
• Crash Recovery, Working with Video Files
• Decibels, Digital versus analog levels, Setting digital audio levels
• Sound Recording
• Basic Editing, Editing Tools
• The Edit Tool, The Magnify Tool, The Pencil Tool, The Envelope Tool
• Inserting Regions
• Editing with a Play list / Cut list Special Menu
• Applying Processes and Effects
• Apply an impulse file, Interpolating Sound Data
• Replacing Sound Data with Previous Data, Spectrum Analysis
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13. Image Processing: Fireworks

• Fireworks workspace, Bitmap and vector graphics
• Changing tool options, Selecting a tool from a tool group
• Using the Property inspector
• Using panels
• Navigating and viewing a document, Graphic files
• Using the Start page
• Zooming and panning, Changing the canvas
• Cropping a document
• Using rulers, Using guides, Selecting objects
• Selecting pixels, Bitmap selection tool options
• Editing selected objects, Transforming and distorting selected objects and selections
• Organizing objects
• Grouping objects
• Creating bitmap objects
• Drawing bitmap objects
• Feathering pixel selections, Retouching bitmaps
• Cloning pixels, Removing red-eye from photos
• Applying the Color Fill Live Filter, Converting an image to a transparency
• Working with Vector Objects, Drawing vector objects
• Drawing basic lines, rectangles, and ellipses
• Drawing basic polygons and stars, Using Text
• Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus
• Importing button symbols, Creating Animation
• Building animation
• Editing animation symbols, Tweening, Using the Export Wizard

14. Interactive Web: Macromedia Drearnweaver 8

• What you can do with Dreamweaver 8
• What's new in Dreamweaver 8
• The Interface
• Selecting the workspace layout, Hiding and displaying the Start page
• Dreamweaver files, Creating new files in Dreamweaver
• Setting Up a Dreamweaver Site
• Using Templates, Types of template regions
• Opening a template for editing
• Setting page properties
• Saving web pages, Changing the document title
• Working with colors
• Formatting paragraphs
• Creating links
• Inserting a Fireworks image, Flash file types
• Defining a Dream weaver site, Defining a local folder
• Defining a remote folder
• Connecting to a database, Connecting to the database in Dreamweaver
• Editing or deleting a database connection, Creating a connection using a local DSN
• Viewing your database within Dreamweaver, Workflow for Dynamic Page Design
• Adding dynamic content to a web page
• Editing dynamic content on a page, Deleting dynamic content