2010 mca syllabus

Group-IV: Advanced Programming Environments

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  Using Structures and Union and Class
  
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  Types of constructors, need of copy constructor
  
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  Implementing Inheritance in C++, Access control in Inheritance
  
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  Concept of virtual function and using such functions, Concept of Virtual Table
  
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  Multiple Inheritance and virtual Base classes
  

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  Overview of developers studio, writing simple application
  
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  Windows Software Architecture, Event-Driven Programming
  
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  Messages and Message Encapsulation
  

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  Windows Libraries and APIs for message handling, The Message Map
  
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  Adding Message Handlers with Class Wizard
  

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  MFC Base Classes, Elements of an MFC Program
  
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  MFC Collection Classes, Iterating Collections
  
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  Documents and Frames
  
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  MFC Diagnostic Facilities
  
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  Exceptions
  

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  CWnd Encapsulation of Windows, CWnd Class Hierarchy, changing window attributes, handling activation and keyboard focus
  

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  The Document/View Model  Document and View Classes
  
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  Document Templates  Saving and Loading Documents
  
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  Using Multiple Views  SDI and MDI Application Styles
  
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  Decoupling Document and View
  

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  CArchive Object
  
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  Document Serialization
  
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  Serializing Pointers
  
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  Creating Persistent Classes
  
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  Serializing CObject Pointers
  

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  Serializing Collections
  

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  Windows Mouse Processing
  
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  CWnd Class Mouse Support
  
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  Capturing the Mouse
  
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  Mouse Cursor, Using MFC for Drawing with the Mouse
  
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  Windows Keyboard Conventions, Keystroke and Character Messages, Capturing Keystroke Input
  

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  Building a Menu, Menu Resources
  
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  Command Routing and Implementing Message Handlers
  
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  Specifying Shortcuts and Accelerators, Dealing with Unavailable Options
  
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  CMenu Class and Dynamic Context Menus, MFC Strings and Use of Stringtables
  

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  Dialog Modality, Programming a Modal and Modeless Dialog
  
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  Connecting Code to the Dialog with ClassWizard
  
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  Building Custom Dialogs and Handling Control Messages
  
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  Using OCX Controls, Keyboard Traversal
  
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  Data Communication Between Dialog and Parent
  
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  Common Dialog Boxes, Property Sheets and Tabbed Dialogs
  

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  Mapping Control Variables, Modifying Control Attributes
  
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  Push Buttons, Check Boxes, RadioButtons
  
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  Edit Controls
  
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  List Boxes and Combo Boxes
  
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  Tree Controls
  
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  Spin Buttons, Progress Bars, and Sliders
  
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  Control Views
  

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  SDI vs. MDI Applications
  
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  Multiple View Types
  
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  Multiple Views Under SDI and MDI
  
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  Document Templates
  
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  Instancing a View
  
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  Adding a New Document Class
  

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  Windows Resources Overview
  
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  Icons, Cursors, and Bitmaps
  
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  Toolbars and Status Bars
  
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  Strings and Fonts
  
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  Menus and Dialogs
  

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  Device Contexts and CDCs
  
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  GDI Drawing Tools and Attributes
  
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  GDI Object Creation and Cleanup
  
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  Colors
  
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  GDI Coordinate Systems and Mapping Modes
  
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  Regions and Clipping
  
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  Drawing and Text Functions
  
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  Pens, Brushes, Fonts
  
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  Bitmaps and DIBs
  
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  Icons and Cursors
  

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  Form, Scroll, and Edit Views
  
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  Creating a Form View from a Dialog Template
  
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  Adding a Form View to a Document
  
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  Handling Messages for View Controls
  
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  Initializing and Sizing the Form View
  
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  Preventing User Resizing
  

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  MFC Capabilities
  
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  The Jet Engine
  
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  MFC Database Classes
  
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  Using CRecordView
  
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  Overview of SQL
  
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  Using DAO and ODBC for Browsing, Adding, Updating and Deleting Records
  
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  DAO and ODBC Classes and taking AppWizard and Class Wizard Support
  

 Emergent system properties  System engineering

 Organization, people and computer systems  Legacy system

 Context model  Behavioral model

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  Architectural design decisions  System organizations
  
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  Modular decomposition styles  Control Styles
  
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  Reference architectures  Multiprocessor architecture
  
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  Client server  Distributed object Architecture
  
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  Inter organizational distributed computer
  

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  Object and object classes  Object oriented design process
  
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  Design evolution  Real time operating systems
  
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  Monitoring and control systems  Data acquisition systems
  
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  Component and component models  CBSE process
  
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  Component composition
  

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  Security concept  Security risk management
  
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  Design of security  System survivability
  
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  Services as reusable components  Service engineering
  
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  Software development with services
  

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  Cross cutting concern  Development concerns
  
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  Production concerns  Goals
  
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  Weaving
  

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  Introduction  What is agile development?
  
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  Agile manifesto and agile principles  Modeling and agile modeling
  
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  The gist of agile processes
  

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  Reasons for agility
  
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  Methodologies for developing software
  
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  Why care about methodologies?
  
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  Agile processes strength and weaknesses
  
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  Understanding XP, Scrum, Evo, Unified Process, Crystal, Lean development, ASD, DSDM and FDD
  
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  Comparison of methodologies
  
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  Choosing a methodology
  
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  Customizing a methodology
  

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  Introduction
  
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  Agent oriented software
  
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  The case for an Agent oriented Approach
  
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  Agent oriented software lifecycle