Maharashtra HSC IT Science case studies
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The Maharashtra HSC Information Technology (Science) paper is a Class 12 board subject taken by Science-stream students under the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. It is a school-level elective that builds practical computing literacy: how computers and operating systems work, how web pages are structured and styled, what emerging technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and 5G actually mean, how JavaScript adds behaviour to pages, how PHP runs on a server, how relational databases are queried with SQL, and how cyber law and security apply to everyday digital life. The Maharashtra HSC IT Science case studies are 5 cases and about 4,393 words.
1Lab Refresh: 32-bit or 64-bit, FAT32 or NTFS, and a Print Queue Decision
Sunrise Junior College is refreshing the 20-machine lab used for HSC IT practicals. Twelve machines are 2015 desktops with 4 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disks; eight are newer units with 8 GB RAM and 240 GB SSDs.
847 words, about 4 min2Chilling Centre Telemetry: Choosing Between 4G, LoRaWAN and a 5G Pitch
Kolhapur Sahakari Dudh Sangh collects about 42,000 litres a day through 60 village societies. Three bulk milk coolers must hold milk at 4 °C; a rise of 2 °C sustained for 40 minutes sours the whole batch.
930 words, about 5 min3Techfest Registration Script: Injection, Duplicates and a Report That Shows Zero
Vidya Niketan Junior College's Techfest registration page was written in a hurry by a Class XII student. Within two days: a visitor's confirmation page popped a JavaScript alert box instead of printing a name; the participants table holds three rows for the same email address; one row has event = 'Fake Event', which is not in the dropdown; and the coordinator's "Web Design" report shows 40 registrations accepted by the form but 0 rows in the database, because the dropdown's option values were copied from another form and hold the numbers 1 to 5 while every report filters on the event name.
869 words, about 4 min4Library Reports That Count Wrong: Rewriting Queries and Repairing Data Types
Saraswati Vidyalaya's library runs MySQL 8 with three tables: members(member id INT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(60), class VARCHAR(10), email VARCHAR(80)), books(book id INT PRIMARY KEY, title VARCHAR(120), isbn INT, copies INT), and loans(loan id INT PRIMARY KEY, member id INT, book id INT, issue date VARCHAR(10), due date VARCHAR(10), return date VARCHAR(10) NULL). Dates were typed by hand as dd/mm/yyyy.
864 words, about 4 min5Account Takeover, Morphed Images and Pirated Software on Lab Machines
On Monday 12 January a Class XII student at Nalanda Junior College cannot log in to Instagram: the recovery email has been changed, and the account is posting morphed images of her face on other people's bodies with an abusive caption. A classmate had guessed her password from her dog's name plus her birth year, and the same password protected her college email.
883 words, about 4 min