This document outlines the course plan for Punjab College of Technical Education's course on Computer Application in Biotechnology. It includes 38 lectures covering topics such as an introduction to computers, hardware, software, memory, storage, input/output devices, the internet, biological databases, sequence analysis tools, and protein structure prediction. Students will complete 3 assignments and 4 tests throughout the course to assess their understanding of the material.

1. PUNJAB COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, LUDHIANA
Course Plan
Programming in 'C'
Max. Marks 100
Internal Assessment 40
External Assessment 60
Instruction for paper setter
The question paper will consist of two sections A and B. Sections B will have Six questions and
will carry 10 marks each. Section A will have 10 short answer type questions, which will cover the
entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 20 marks in all
Instructions for Candidates
Candidates are required to attempt four questions from section B and the entire section A. Use of
non-programmable scientific calculator is allowed.
Fundamentals: Character set, Identifiers & Keywords, Data Types, constants, set, constants,
variables, expressions, statement, symbolic constants. Operations and expressions: Arithmetic
operators, unary operators, relational and logical operators, assignment and conditional operators,
and library functions.
Data input and output: Preliminaries, single character input, single character output, entering
input data, more about the scanf function, writing output data, more about printf function, the gets
and puts function, interactive programming.
Control statements: Preliminaries, while, do-while and for statements. Nested loops, if else,
switch, break continue statement
Functions: Brief overview, defining accessing function, passing perimeters to function, specifying
argument data types, function prototype and recursion.
Program structure: Storage classes, automatic, external, and static variables, more about library
functions.
Array: defining and processing an array, passing pointers to a function, pointer and one
dimensional arrays, operations on pointers, passing functions multidimensional arrays of pointers,
passing functions to the other functions, more about pointer declarations.
Structure And Unions: Defining and processing a structure, user defined data types structure and
Pointers, passing structure to function, self-referential structures, unions.
Data files: Opening, closing, creating, and processing and unformatted data field.

2. C-programming applications: Sorting (Bubble sort, Selection sort), Searching (Binary search,
Linear Search).

3. Punjab College of Technical Education - Course Plan
Computer Application in
Subject. Name Biotechnology
Subject. Code BSBT-107
Teacher Code RUD No. of Tests 4
No. of Lect. 38 No. of Assignments 3
Proposed Lect. Lecture Content Assignment Test Actual Date
Week No. of Delivery
1st Week 1 Introduction to Subject
2
Introduction to
IT,Data,Information,Processing
3 Computer Definition,Parts of
Computer
4 Block Diagram of CPU Assignment-1
2nd Week 5 Class Discussion
6 Characteristics of Computer
7 History of Computers
8 Generations of Computers
3rd Week 9 Test 1
10 Classification of Computers
11 Computer Algorithms Assignment-2
12 Class Discussion
4th Week 13 Hardware and Software
14 Use of Computers
15 Memory
16 Types of Memories
5th Week 17 Class Discussion Assignment-3
18
Secondary Storage Devices
19
20
Input Devices
6th Week 21
22 Output Devices
23 Test 2
24 Practical of Word
7th Week 25 Internet and Biologist
26 Bibliographic Database
27 Class Discussion
28 Ganebank,Sequence Database
8th Week 29 Sequence Analysis using GCG
30 Sequence alignment and
database searching
31 Test 3

4. 32 Multiple Sequence alignment
9th Week 33 Phylogenetic analysis
34 Prection of Protein structures
35 Class Discussion
36 NCBI data model
10th Week 37 Class Discussion
38 Test 4
Teacher Name
RUPALI