Group Discussion on the Subject Operating System

Various Books and topics were discussed among all with full enthusiasm and in a positive manner.

Er. Amandeep Singh gave different aspects of definition of operating system. Er.Sukhpreet Kaur HOD CSE had taught the subject last year so, she was really helpful in clearing doubts about certain topics. Er. Gurpreet Singh Maan and  Er. Puneet Bansal agreed that the book by Galvin is very good for theory but not so good for practical knowledge. Er.Sunil Nagpal of CSE Department explained about deadlock and how they occur in Operating System. Er. Gurveen Kaur, HOD, IT Department laid emphasis on deadlock handling and deadlock prevention. Er. Manushi discussed the starvation problem in operating system, How it occur and How it can be resolved. Er.Amandeep Kaur said that according to her round robin algorithm and priority algorithm are best among all scheduling algorithms. Er. Harleen Kaur is taking the subject of LINUX so she discussed unix and linux in brief stating their advantages and disadvantages over windows.

Overall the discussion on the operating system proved to be very fruitful to every faculty member of staff. 

Group Discussion on the Subject FCPIT

Department of CSE & IT had a group discussion on the subject “Fundamentals of Computer Programming and Information Technology” on 19th February 2011. All the faculty members participated with full enthusiasm in the group discussion. Er. Gurpreet Singh Mann of IT deptt. is taking the aforesaid subject of 1^st year students. He initiated the discussion by giving introduction to the subject

Syllabus of FCPIT was discussed by all faculty members. The subject was taught by many of the faculty members, so a very healthy and fruitful discussion started among all. Er. Sukhpreet Kaur, HOD (CSE) stated some of the merits of teaching this subject to all the branches not only to the students of CSE & IT. Er. Gurveen Kaur, HOD (IT) discussed the first part of syllabus i.e. fundamentals of computers and was joined by rest of the faculty members explaining various aspects of syllabus which need more attention and explanation in class.

Further, several books were suggested by faculty members who had taught the subject previously. For the fundamentals of computer book by Sinha & Sinha was suggested by Er. Sunil Nagpal. Book by R.S Salaria was suggested by Er. Gurpreet Singh Mann.

Er. Harleen Kaur said that the topic of windows , operating system and MS-Word is best covered in labs giving students more exposure & practical knowledge. For the programming language, C++ book by S.K Pandey was suggested by Er. Amandeep Singh. Book by Balaguruswamy for C++ programming and concepts were referred by Er. Manushi.

Er. Sumit Arora said that whole syllabus is covered very well by Yashpal Sinha in the book of FCPT by Kalyani Publications.

Further some topics related to the subject like HTTP & FTP, NTF & FAT were discussed.