Unit 1

Basics Introduction, Information and data, Number Systems-Binary, Hexadecimal, Octal, Conversion, BCD, Data encoding. Boolean Algebra, Simplification of Boolean expression.

Unit 2

Problem Solving Problem definition, Problem decomposition, Abstraction, Greedy Method, Divide and Conquer.

Unit-3

Algorithmic Thinking Algorithm and Flowcharting, Name binding, Selection, Repetition.

Unit 4

Data organization: List and Arrays, Modularization, Problem Solving: Factoring and Recursion Techniques,

Unit 5

Searching and Sorting Techniques, Text processing and Pattern matching.

1. David Riley and Kenny Hunt , Computational thinking for modern solver, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2014
2. R.G. Dromey , “How to solve it by Computer”, PHI, 2008