Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Programme Coordinator

Basic Information

Ms. Manisha Prasad(HOD)

MCA IT, NET

The Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) program at Patna Women’s College stands out for its consistent record of producing top-ranking students in University Examinations, reflecting the high academic standards and student dedication. To ensure comprehensive learning, the curriculum is meticulously designed to include regular monitoring through terminal exams, projects, assignments, and presentations. Additionally, students gain practical experience through On-the-Job Training in various prestigious organizations, enhancing their readiness for professional challenges.

The faculty at Patna Women’s College is deeply committed to student success, providing unparalleled support and guidance. Research projects under the CPE scheme further allow students to delve into innovative areas, fostering a research-oriented mindset. The program is also enriched with various training programs and workshops for both students and teachers, aimed at expanding their knowledge base. Through the NMEICT project’s “Talk-to-a-Teacher” initiative, online tutorials from IIT Mumbai are conducted, offering students access to high-quality educational resources.
This holistic educational approach not only equips students with theoretical knowledge but also prepares them for the dynamic demands of the IT sector, making the BCA program at Patna Women’s College a sought-after choice for aspiring women technologists.

Activities

Excel and AI: Unlocking Data Mastery

Anti Ragging Week

Hands on Training on Advance level MS Office with Artificial Intelligence

Fresher's Day programme on the 29th of July 2024.

Arduino Programming

TECHTOPIA-2023

CONNECT SESSION FOR WIPRO – Work Integrated Learning Program
The Department of Computer Science Patna Women’s College organised an industry connect program for the students of B.Sc final year from the departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics and Physics. The resource person for this event was Mr Anurag Kirti, Region Lead (East and West) Global Campus Hiring Wipro Ltd..Ms. Manisha Prasad, Head, Department of Computer Science welcomed the resource person.
The session was focussed on Work Integrated Learning Program at WIPRO and how eligible students can craft their career at Wipro. Mr. Anurag Kirti discussed about the role of curiosity, communication skills, collaborations and continuous learning that leads to acquiring competencies, knowledge and skills for developing future opportunities. He also motivated the students to be passionate and develop diverse set of skills for a successful career. Approximately 150 students and all the faculty members from the Department of Computer Science attended the programme.

The Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College organized an Ad-making competition under the aegis of Vigyan Utsav-2023 on the topic “Products for Global well being” on 26.02.2023. The programme began with a prayer song

Ms. Manisha Prasad, Head, Department of Computer Science gave the welcome address. The judges for this event were Ms. Madhuri Kumar, Senior sub editor Times group, Patna, Mr. Nikhil Prakash, CEO, Digital Cinematics and Ms. Roma, Head, Department of BMC, Patna Women’s College. Altogether twelve groups presented their video advertisements which focussed on eco-friendly and natural products for wellbeing of mankind.

All the judges praised the participants for their effort and also gave suggestions for improvising their content. Dr. Aprajita Krishna, Dean Faculty of Science and Convenor of Vigyan Utsav-2023 also applauded the participants for their creative presentations. Vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Anshu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science. Compering was done by Ms. Shreya Sinha, student of Semester IV from the Department of Computer Science.

TECHTOPIA-2023

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

PATNA WOMEN’S COLLEGE

Autonomous

(PATNA UNIVERSITY)

3^rd Cycle NAAC Accredited at A Grade with CGPA 3.58/4

“College with Potential for Excellence” (CPE) Status accorded by UGC

Under Star College Scheme (DBT)

Guest Lecture

Topic: Usefulness of Intellectual Property Rights for Students and Teachers

Date : 14.02.2020

Venue: Carmel Hall

Resource Person: 1. Dr. Parikshit Bansal , IP Educator , Intellectual Property & Technology Cell

Ms. Kompal Bansal, Patent Agent, , Intellectual Property & Technology Cell

Report Summary

The Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College organized a Guest Lecture, Under Star College Scheme, DBT on the topic “Usefulness of Intellectual Property Rights for Students and Teachers” . The Lecture was delivered by Dr. Parikshit Bansal , IP Educator and Ms. Kompal Bansal, Patent Agent, Intellectual Property & Technology Cell. They explained the students about the importance and need of Intellectual Property Rights in our life ,copyright, Patents etc. They emphasised that whenever somebody comes up with an original concept or creation, there will always be those who want to copy it in order to profit financially. Therefore, we must protect our IP assets before they are unlawfully violated by any other party. Thus, a person can choose which kind of intellectual property protection (trademark, copyright, or patent registration) can be utilised to cover various sectors of intellectual property after studying the company requirement and conditions. All the students of BCA attended the guest lecture.

Non-Teaching Staff Development Program

Topic: Computer Skills Training
Date : 22.06.2020 to 27.06.2020
Venue: Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College
Resource Person: Mr. Manisha Prasad, Head , Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna
Womens College
Ms. Anshu, Asst. Prof., Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna Womens College
Ms. Amrita Prakash, Asst. Prof., Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna Womens College
Ms. Renu Kumari, Asst. Prof., Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna
Womens College
Ms. Nimisha Manan, Asst. Prof., Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna
Womens College

Report Summary

The Department of Computer Science,Patna Women’s College under Star College
Scheme(DBT)in collaboration with IQAC, Patna Women’s College organized One Week Non-
Teaching Staff Development Program on the topic Computer Skills Training. The training was
given in such a way that it becamevery useful for all levels of office staff at the supervisory and
managerial level and other non-teaching employees of the institution.During the training
programme, all the Faculty members of the Department of computer Science , Patna Womens
College made all the Non- Teaching staff members equipped with the Microsoft Office
Packages (such as MS Word, MS EXCEL, MS Powerpoint ) ,Cloud, Google. Drive, Google
Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Internet operations to make them Professionally
compete with the modern office methods for their daily official assignments.

National Webinar

Topic: Nurturing Research Culture and Enhancing Teaching Learning Through the Star
College Scheme of DBT
Date : 17.06.2020 to 18.06.2020
Venue:Online
Resource Person: 1. Prof. Shashi Tyagi, Professor, Gargi College, D.U.
2. Dr. Rajendra Shinde, Principal, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
3. Dr.Tumul Singh, Coordinator, Star College Scheme, Udai Pratap
College,

Report Summary

Faculty of Science, Patna Women’s College organised a National Webinar on “Nurturing
Research Culture and Enhancing Teaching Learning through the Star College Scheme of DBT”
on 17th and 18th June 2020. The resource persons were Prof. Shashi Tyagi, Professor, Gargi
College, D.U., Dr. Rajendra Shinde, Principal, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and Dr. Tumul
Singh, Coordinator, Star College Scheme, Udai Pratap College. Different academicians from
different colleges of India participated in the webinar. The idea of this webinar was to familiarize
the participants as to how the funds provided to the educational institution together with good
governance provides a vibrant academic environment. it would serve as a platform to reaffirm
that the support to different Science Departments under the Star College Scheme has inculcated
inter-disciplinary teaching learning and research culture by holding innovative joint academic
activities.

Faculty Development Program

Topic: Moodle LMS Exploring New Horizons of Teaching Learning
Date : 15.05.2020 to21.05.2020
Venue:Online
Resource Person: Mr. Manisha Prasad, Head , Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna
Womens College&
Ms. Amrita Prakash, Asst. Prof., Deptt. of Computer Science, Patna Womens College
in association with Remote Learning Through Spoken Tutorial, IIT Mumbai.

Report Summary

The Department of Computer Science and Department of MCA , Patna Women’s Collegein
association with Remote Learning ThroughSpoken Tutorial IIT Mumbai organized One Week
Online Faculty Development Programme on Moodle LMS Exploring New Horizons of
Teaching Learning. Moodle is an open source, free to download, flexible user-friendly e-
Learning platform.Moodle is the world’s most popular and most used learning management
system.Moodle is used by organizations of all shapes and sizes outside the education community.
Most commonly, Moodle is used by businesses, corporations, hospitals and non-profits for
training, online learning and in some cases it is used for extended business processes.There was
no registration fee for this FDP and e-certificateswere provided to all the participants on
completion of the course.

Hands on Training

Topic: Network Security
Date : 07.02.2020 to 13.03.2020
Venue: Department of Computer Science, PWC
Resource Person: Mr. Riyaz Jamaal, R & D Associate, Techprolabz Pvt. Ltd.

Report Summary on Network Security

The Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College organized Hands on
Training,Under Star College Scheme, DBT on the topic “ Network Security “ for the
students of BCAIVth Semester (2018-21) , Patna Women’s College. The training was
given on the use of Java Code for encrypting and decrypting information. Students
learnt to encrypt and decrypt the code for sending it through networks. Encryption
technique provides network security to the codes while transmission through network.
All the students learnt the encryption decryption technique using java code.

Hands on Training

Topic: Wireless Robotics
Date : 13.02.2020 to 04.03.2020
Venue: Department of Computer Science, PWC
Resource Person: Mr. Vivek Dadarao Katore, Techprolabz Pvt. Ltd.

Report Summary on Wireless Robotics

The Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College organized a Hands on Training,
Under Star College Scheme, DBT on the topic Wireless Robotics for the students of BCA IInd
Semester (2019-22), Patna Women’s College. The Field of robotics in which the robotic system
communicate wirelessly is known as Wireless Robotics.During the training, the students learnt
how to develop a wireless robot which can be controlled with a remote.. They were given
training on how to do coding for Wireless Robotics. They also learnt how to make therobot
enabled with Bluetooth module for wireless communication. Bluetooth module helps in wireless
communication.Students attended and got benefitted by this training.

Hands on Training

Topic: Drone Robotics
Date : 13.01.2020 to 06.02.2020
Venue: Department of Computer Science, PWC
Resource Person: 1. Mr. Vivekanand Prasad, Founder and Director, Techprolabz Pvt.
Ltd.
2. Mr. Jaynendra Sharma, Co-Founder, Techprolabz Pvt. Ltd.

Report Summary on Drone Robotics

The Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College organized a Hands on
Training, Under Star College Scheme, DBT on the topic Drone Robotics for the
students of BCA IVth Semester (2018-2021), Patna Women’s College. During the
training, the students learnt how to design a drone by assembling the different
components of drone. . They were given training on how to do coding for Drone
Robotics. It is very much helpful for design, development and use of drone for
different purposes. Students attended and got benefitted by this training.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
PATNA WOMEN’S COLLEGE
Autonomous
(PATNAUNIVERSITY)
3rd Cycle NAAC Accredited at A Grade with CGPA 3.58/4
“College with Potential for Excellence” (CPE) Status accorded by UGC
Under Star College Scheme (DBT)

Hands on Training

Topic: Gesture Robotics
Date : 13.01.2020 to01.02.2020
Venue: Department of Computer Science, PWC
Resource Person: Mr. Vivek Katore, Techprolabz Pvt. Ltd.
Report Summary on Gesture Robotics
The Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College organized a Hands on Training,
Under Star College Scheme, DBT on the topic Gesture Roboticsfor the students of BCA-IInd
Semester(2019-22), Patna Women’s College.During thetraining, the studentslearnt how to
develop a Hand Gesture controlled robot which is a wireless robot which can be controlled by
hand gesture i. e. by tilt of hand. The training was based on wireless communication. During the
training the students developed a robot car and learnt how the data from the hand gestures is
transmitted to the robot car over bluetooth. The project was divided into two parts: Receiver and
Transmitter. Transmitter part was worn in hand to transmit the gesture and the robot car received
those gestures and moved accordingly. They were given training on how to assemble a robot car
and add functionality to the car by coding usingGesture Robotics.Students attended and got
benefitted by this training.

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Department of Computer Science (BCA), Patna Women’s College, organized an Alumni Meet on 22nd October, 2022.
The programme started with a welcome song and it was followed up by welcome dance. Then a welcome address was given by Head, Department of Computer Science Ms. Manisha Prasad while Dr. Ameeta Jaisawal, President, Alumni Association and Head, Department of Philosophy spoke about PWC Alumni Association contributions towards the society.
Thereafter, a drama was performed portraying the theme ‘College Life.’ Games like ‘Dumb charades’ and ‘Housie’ were conducted.
The alumni shared pleasant memories and nostalgic moments about the department and college at the time of experience sharing. The noted alumni were felicitated where Ms. Sonam Kumari was felicitated as the most supportive alumni. All the alumni were then presented with a souvenir.
The programme was moderated by Priya Sharan and Priya Vandana. The whole programme was sponsored by Aztech technology, Techpro labz, Sonal enterprises and India Book Centre.The program was concluded by Ms. Renu Kumari with the vote of thanks.