UGC NET Computer Science and Applications — Paper 2, subject code 87

The platform holds 32 GATE Computer Science chapters, and — unlike every NET Paper-2 subject before this one — they genuinely are, in large part, this syllabus, once checked unit by unit rather than assumed from the shared name. 31 of the 32 are borrowed whole: all 5 discrete-mathematics chapters into Unit 1, all 3 digital-logic and all 3 computer-organisation chapters into Unit 2, all 3 databases chapters into Unit 4, all 3 operating-systems chapters into Unit 5, 2 of 3 programming-and-data-structures chapters plus all 3 algorithms chapters into Unit 7, all 3 theory-of-computation and all 3 compiler-design chapters into Unit 8 (the cleanest overlap of all), and all 3 computer-networks chapters into Unit 9. The one exception, GATE’s Programming-in-C chapter, was checked and found too narrow — this syllabus’s own C sub-item reaches structures, unions, file handling and the preprocessor that GATE’s recursion/pointer-arithmetic depth does not — so it was written fresh rather than forced as a partial borrow. What GATE never touches was written new in 30 chapters: the whole of Optimization in Unit 1 (linear programming, simplex, transportation, PERT-CPM); register-transfer/microoperations and vector-processing/multiprocessor topics in Unit 2; almost the whole of Unit 3, Programming Languages and Computer Graphics (OOP, C++, web programming, and every raster/transform/illumination topic in computer graphics); enhanced data models, data warehousing/mining and Big Data/NoSQL in Unit 4; system software proper, security, virtual machines, Linux/Windows and distributed systems in Unit 5; the whole of Unit 6, Software Engineering, which GATE CS has no section for at all; advanced trees, backtracking/branch-and-bound, lower bound theory, P/NP/NP-completeness and selected/advanced algorithms in Unit 7; one foundational chapter opening Unit 8; data-communication fundamentals and mobile/cloud/IoT topics in Unit 9; and the whole of Unit 10, Artificial Intelligence, another section GATE CS entirely lacks. All ten units are written, in 61 chapters total — 31 borrowed, 30 new — the largest single NET Paper-2 batch completed on this platform, in both new content and wiring complexity.