MCA

Type: Elective
Contact Hours: 4 hours/week
Examination Duration: 3 Hours
Mode: Lecture
External Maximum Marks: 75
External Pass Marks: 30(i.e. 40%)
Internal Maximum Marks: 25
Total Maximum Marks: 100
Total Pass Marks: 40(i.e. 40%)

Instructions to paper setter for End semester exam:
Total number of questions shall be nine. Question number one will be compulsory and will be consisting of short/objective type questions from complete syllabus. In addition to compulsory first question there shall be four units in the question paper each consisting of two questions. Student will attempt one question from each unit in addition to compulsory question. All questions will carry equal marks.

Course Objectives: The objective of this paper is to make the students familiar with the Programming Language Kotlin so that they shall be able to design the Mobile Applications.

Course Outcomes (COs)   At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
MCA-20-35(iii).1                  understand the different collection implementation using Kotlin;
MCA-20-35(iii).2                implement different types of functions;
MCA-20-35(iii).3                 understand the concepts of classes and interfaces and implement them;
MCA-20-35(iii).4                design and develop Android using Kotlin.
                                                                                     Unit – I
Variables and Data types, Handling of Strings, Arrays: Generic arrays, arrays of primitives, List, Map and Set. Ranges, Null safety: Nullable and Non-nullable types, Elvis operator (?:)

                                                                                     Unit – II
Conditional Statements: if, when; Loops in Kotlin: for, repeat, while; break and continue.
Functions: Inline Function, Lambda Functions, Function Reference, Vararg parameters in Functions.
                                                                                     Unit – III
Class: Final class, open class, Inheritance: inheriting methods and fields from a class, Overriding properties and methods, Visibility modifiers, Abstract class, Data Class, Enum class, Sealed class, Nested class, Inner class, Interfaces, Programming asynchronous applications with Coroutines, Annotations.
                                                                                     Unit – IV
Exception Handling: Try, Catch, Finally block, Throw.
Android development using Kotlin. Views: TextView, EditView, ScrollView, ImageView, ListView, Recycler view etc. Android UI Layouts: Linear, Relative and Constraint, Creating Activities, Intents and Fragments.
Text Books:
⦁ Sommerhoff Peter, Kotlin for Android App Development, Pearson.
⦁ VenkatSubramaniam, Programming Kotlin, Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Reference Books:
⦁ Stephen Samuel & Stefan Bocutiu, Programming Kotlin, Packt Publishing Ltd.
⦁ Antonio Leiva, Kotlin for Android Developers, Leanpub.
⦁ MarcinMoskala & Igor Wojda, Android Development with Kotlin, Packt Publishing Ltd.