Saturday, May 22, 2010

The time and date of the final

It is in the regular room, this Sunday, May 23, but at 11:00 AM.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Walkthru of First Access Practice Exam

Sunday, April 11, 2010

* Importing data into Excel
* Pivot Charts and Pivot Tables
* Advanced Filtering
* Solver -- assignment
* Visual Basic for Applications; macros; UDFs
user defined function

Sunday, March 14, 2010

What we did

worked a bit on web assignment.
finished ch 1 hands on 1-4
homework: ch 1, all 4 practice exercises
started ch 1 hands on 1 -- we finished step 1 and spoke about absolute vs relative references

A video walkthrough of the Word Exam

Find the files in your dropbox


Sunday, March 7, 2010

notes from class

making a web page with word

mail merge
1- write the letter to *one person*
2- create your database of information to merge in
3- modify your letter to make use of the "merge fields"
4- actually merge the document with the database (Finish and Merge / Edit Individual Document)

mdb -- microsoft database (Access 2003 file)
accdb -- microsoft database (Access 2007 file)


hw: take the practice test at home
svitak cs12

http://eniac.cs.qc.edu/~svitak/cs12/PracticeWord.pdf
http://eniac.cs.qc.edu/~svitak/cs12/practicedocx.exe
http://eniac.cs.qc.edu/~svitak/cs12/studyguideword.html

target: 2 weeks from now

hw: word ch 4, all 4 practice exercises

camstudio.org
microsoft moviemaker


excel
rows, cols, cells
functions, formulas
=
values, operators, references, functions

basic excel in *this* class

cs88 - advanced productivity tools for business

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Phishing scam

domains on URL (web addresses)

Anti-Phishing Phil

http://123.45.24.1/www.chase.com

understandingpersonalcomputers.blogpsot.com

whitehouse.gov
whitehouse.com
whitehouse.net

TLA -- three letter acronym

IP address

cmd
DNS

HTTP request
HTTP response
cache
HTML - hypertext markup language

we get our own website
cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu/~wajo6789

login: wajo6789
password: 123456789

first two letters of last name
first two letters of first name
last 4 digits of social

Joshua Waxman
123456789

WINSCP download


hostname: cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu

public_html

it will work
or it will say website or file or folder does not exist
or it will say that you do not have permission

hello.html

cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu/~wajo6789/hello.html

w3schools.com

starts with  this text is bold
This is a hyperlink
with an attribute


we are doing ch 3 hands on 3

plan: ch 4, ho 1,
i will quickly demonstrate ho 2
ho 3
skip ho 4
i will walk you thru mail merge
then, we will be finished with Microsoft word, and will start on Excel

Sunday, February 21, 2010

goal for today

Ch 2 hands on exercise 2 - 4
Ch 3 hands on exercise 1

homework: Ch 3 hands on exercise 2
also, Ch 2, practice exercise 1-4

notes 3

understandingpcs.blogspot.com


0000 0
0001 1
0010 2
0011 3
0100 4
0101 5
0110 6
0111 7
1000 8
1001 9

bit = binary digit
byte = 8 bits
nibble = 4 bits
word = 16 bits
dword = 32 bits

00
01
10
11 = total of 4 possible values

000
001
010
011
100
101
110
111 = total of 8 possible values

socks: red, green, blue
shoes: white, black

H
T

HHH
HHT
HTH
HTT
THH
THT
TTH
TTT

1 bit: 2^1 = 2
2 bits: 2^2 = 4
3 bits: 2*2*2 = 2^3 = 8
4 bits: 2^4 = 16
5 bits: 32
8 bits: 2^8 = 256
16 bits: 2^16 = 65,536
24 bits: 16.7 million

1024 = 2^10 bytes: kilobyte
1024x1024 bytes; 2^20: megabyte
2^30 = approx 1 billion: gigabyte
2^40: approx a trillion: terabyte

hertz
gigahertz

pixel = picture element
resolution
how many bits per pixel

24 bit color
900,054 bytes
24 bit bitmap
500 across
600 down
500 x 600 x 3 bytes

256 color
301,078 bytes

16 color
151,318 bytes

monochrome
38,462 bytes

HW from last time:
ch 1, practice exercise 1-4

Sunday, February 7, 2010

class 2 notes

DropBox

show file extensions
.DOCX
.DOC

Syllabus:
Word, Excel, Access, ? Powerpoint
Computer concepts
HTML and web pages
DOS -- command line interface

3 hands-on tests
word, excel, access
20%, 20%, 25%

web page - 10%
hw - 15%
quizzes on computer concepts - 10%

book: grauer book(s)

w3schools.com
we learnt some basic html, up to but
not including HTML elements

von Neumann architecture
wikipedia

hardware
General purpose computer
software
bus
instruction set

RAM
x: 3 y: 4 z: 7

1. Say "please enter the first #"
2. get first number, store it in x
3. Say "please enter the second #"
4. get second number, store it in y
5. add x and y, store it in z
6. say x "and" y "=" z
7. Go to step 1


IP: 1
fetch-execute cycle

computer understands machine language
binary
01010111101

Sunday, January 31, 2010

notes from class 1

Welcome to CS12 - understanding pcs
ms office package
word
excel
access
? powerpoint
html - making pages
dos - command line interface
windows

Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Exploring Microsoft Office Word 2007
Exploring Microsoft Office Access 2007

$219
$160

Exploring Microsoft Office 2007
robert grauer

office
volume 1, NOT volume 2
comprehensive is also OK, means 1 + 2

amazon
alibris
bookfinder.com


HW:
1) Get the book
start with word

2) Make sure you have Microsoft Office 2007 at home
WINWORD
EXCEL
MSACCESS
POWERPNT


What is a computer?
Something that computes.


input
keyboard, mouse, microphone
output
speakers, screen, printer
memory
short term memory
RAM
random access memory

long term memory
hard disk, floppy disk, USB
sequential memory
arithmetic ability
control

CPU
Central Processing Unit
ALU -- arithmetic / logic unit
control unit

von Neumann architecture

understandingpcs.blogspot.com
prenhall.com/grauer

web browsers
IEXPLORE
Chrome
Firefox
Opera

associations

formatting:
on the character level
on the paragraph level
on the section
three letter extension
word document ends .docx

Attendance