BPH-207: COMPUTERS IN PHARMACY
THEORY
Max. Marks: 80 Total Hours: 50 (2hrs/week)
Note: Examiner to set eight questions and the candidates are required to attempt any five.- History: Introduction to Computer, Computer classifications (According to generation, size and use). (2)
- Hardware: Introduction to hardware, CPU, Mother board, various ports and slots available with motherboard. Input devices, Output devices, Storage Devices and Memory. (3)
- Networking: Introduction to networking, Classification of networking like LAN, WAN, MAN. Hardware of networking – Modem, Hub, Cables. Power devices like UPS. (2)
- Number systems: Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal and their uses in computer. (3)
- Software: Introduction to software, use of Machine language, Assembly language and Higher-level languages. (2)
- Application of computers in pharmacy: Introduction to various uses of computer in pharmaceutical research and development, industries, authorities, education and in hospitals in maintenance of records, inventory control, medication monitoring, drug information and drug storage and retrieval in retail pharmacy establishments. (5)
- Operating systems: Introduction to Operating system, classification, use of operating system like DOS, WINDOWS (98 & XP) & LINUX. (6)
- File manipulations: Directories / folder / files searching, creating, copying, moving, deleting, renaming etc. (2)
- Computer Package: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel. (10)
- Maintenance: Checking, Scanning and formatting a floppy disk, CD Writing. (1)
- Internet: History, Introduction to Internet Browsers, URL. Introduction to email and how to check and compose an email? Important websites related to pharmaceutical information – like sites for information regarding drugs, medical literature, plants, adverse effects, clinical data, patent sites, FDA, WHO, etc. (3)
- Programming Language (Programming with C): Introduction to programming; Problem analysis, algorithm, flow chart, coding, execution, debugging and testing, program documentation. Introduction to C: Programming rules. C-Declarations: C-Character set, Key words, identifiers, constants, variables, defining variables, data type, declaring variables, initializing variables, conversion types etc. Operators and expression, input and output statement in C.
- Decision statements: If …., if…. Else, Nested if else….., Go to, Switch ( ) …. Case, break, default statement, loop control statement: While, Do …..While, for, nested for. Arrays: One dimensional, Two dimensional.The scanf ( ) and printf ( ) functions. Preprocessor directives: # include, # define. (11)
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