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Syllabus
Computer Applications
(Issued by CBSE on 31st March 2023)
Class - X (Code No. 165)
Latest Syllabus [2023-24]
Learning Outcomes
Ability to create a simple website
1. Ability to embed images, audio and video in an HTML page
2. Ability to use style sheets to beautify the web pages.
3. Ability to Interface a web site with a web server and record the details of a user's request.
4. Ability to follow basic cyber ethics
5. Ability to familiarize with network concepts.
Distribution of Marks and Periods
Unit No. Unit Name Marks Periods
Theory Practical
1. Networking 15 17 05
2. HTML 25 30 50
3. Cyber ethics 10 08 10
4. Practicals 50 - -
Total 100 55 65
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, e-Shopping,
e-Reservation, e-Governance, e-Groups, social networking.
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 browser.
HTML tags: html, head, title, body, (attributes: text, background, bgcolor, link, vlink, alink),
br (break), hr(horizontal rule), inserting comments, h1..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).
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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, combobox.
Embed audio and video in a HTML page.
Create a table using the tags: table, tr, th, td, rowspan, colspan
Links: significance of linking, anchor element (attributes: href, mailto), targets.
Cascading style sheets: colour, background-colour, border-style, margin, height, width,
outline, font (family, style, size), align, float.
Unit 3: Cyber ethics
Netiquettes.
Software licenses and the open source software movement.
Intellectual property rights, plagiarism and digital property rights.
Freedom of information and the digital divide.
E-commerce: Privacy, fraud, secure data transmission.
Unit 4: Lab Exercises
Create static web pages.
Use style sheets to enforce a format in an HTML page (CSS).
Embed pictures, audio and videos in an HTML page.
Add tables and frames in an HTML page.
Decorate web pages using graphical elements.
Create a website using several webpages. Students may use any open source or proprietary
tool.
Work 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.
Breakup of marks for the Practicals :
[Link]. Unit Name Marks
1. Lab Test (20 marks)
HTML (design one web page based on a diagram) 20
2. Report File + viva (20 marks)
Report file: At least 10 HTML pages, and at least 5 Scratch/Python 15
programs.
Viva voce (based on the report file) 5
3. Project (that uses most of the concepts that have been learnt) 10
Total 50
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