Sunday, September 8, 2013

Welcome to CS12

CS12
Understanding Personal Computers

Josh Waxman

we will learn about Computer Concepts
we will learn about Microsoft Office
other technologies, e.g. HTML

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Free trial of Microsoft Office (for 30 days). Sufficient to get us past the exam next week.

Walkthroughs:
Practice 1:
Practice 2


Sunday, May 5, 2013


where are we?
pwd: present working directory
what files are in folder?
ls: list of files
your web page must be in folder called
public_html immediately within your login
folder
how do you make a directory?
mkdir public_html
how do you change to a directory?
cd public_html
how do you edit a file?
every basic web page starts at the file index.html
we need a text editor

elm: electronic mail
pine: pine is not elm
pico: pine composer

pico index.html

chmod: change file permissions
need to know your binary

cd ..


lecture final:
like what was on quizzes
grauer chapters, multiple choice
ch 1-4 (maybe five if time) of concepts book, the end of section questions
a few extra questions here and there


agenda:
advanced word, excel, access (?)
lecture book (computer concepts), ch 5 and 6
review for access exam

Advanced Word:
macros, customizations, macros are in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), regular expression search
Advanced Excel
macros, UDFs, pivottables, solver (advanced goal seek)
Advanced Access (maybe)
macros (which are different)
Web page project (in class)
how to log into the web server
change permissions for files, folders
html
www.w3schools.com has excellent tutorial, also Dr. Svitak's website
Where do we go from here?
other CS classes, now that you have the CS12 prereq

Sunday, April 7, 2013

we finished access ch 2, hands on 1 and 2
still need to finish the entire chapter

Sunday, March 10, 2013


Quiz next week:
word ch 4 multiple
computer concepts chapter 2

homework:
word ch 5, practice exercises and mid-level exercises