Syllabus comparison
 

DSE ICT 2025 New syllabus	DSE ICT 2012-2024	CE CIT 2005-2011	CE CS 1994-2004	CE IT 2003-2004	AL CS/AS CA 2007-2013	AL CS 2000-2006	AS CA 2000-2006
Compulsory
A.      Information processing
Introduction to Information Processing	P	P
Data Organisation and Data Control	P	P	P			P
Data Representation	P	P	P	P	P	P
Data Manipulation and Analysis	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
B.      Computer System Fundamentals
Basic Machine Organisation	P	P	P		P	P	P
System Software	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
C.      Internet and its Applications
Networking and Internet Basics	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Internet Services and Application	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Elementary Web Authoring	P	P					P
Threats and Security on the Internet	P	P		P	P		P
D.      Computational Thinking and Programming
Problem Formulation and Analysis	P	P	P		P	P	P
Algorithm Design	P	P			P	P
Program Development (new)
Program Testing and Debugging	P	P				P
E.       Social Implications
Technological Innovations (new)
Health and Ethical Issues	P	P	P		P	P	P
Intellectual Property	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Elective (Choose any two only)
A.      Databases
Relational Databases Concepts	P				P	P	P
SQL	P				P		P
Database Design Methodology	P				P
Web Application Development
Network Services and Implementation	P	P			P		P
Web Programming and Applications	P
JavaScript/PHP (new)
Algorithm and Programming
Programming (C++/Python) (new)
Applications of Programming in Real Life (new)
Out-syl
Computer systems	P	P	P	P	P		P
Introduction to Databases	P				P	P
Database Applications, Development and society	P
Multimedia Production	P	P					P
Problem definition and analysis (Programming)	P	P			P
Documentation (Programming)	P	P	P		P
VB/Java/C	P	C			P
Pascal	P	P	P		P	P
Programming Languages	P	P	P		P	P
Systems Development	P				P	P
Assembly language					P	P
Modern Computer Architectures					P	P
Machine Logic						P

 The subtopics examined in each topic may be different. This serves as a rough guide.