CSC 152: Course Calendar
(Introduction to Computing for the Sciences)




June 25 Checked network, portal, and email accounts.
Brief Discussion on search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Ask) and Wikipedia.
Quick tour of the library's website (including searching the catalog and finding articles using databases).


Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How Pop-up Blockers Work. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 2).
June 26 Pp. 1-52 in Word 2007 (Grauer et al.). Due in one week (July 3).
June 30 Finish exercise from Thursday, pp. 1-52 in Word 2007 (Grauer et al.). Email edited files as attachments. Due July 3.

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How Phishing Works. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 7).

Vocabulary terms to know from page 54 in Word 2007 (Grauer)
  • Clipboard
  • Dialog box
  • Landscape orientation
  • Overtype mode
  • Portrait orientation
  • Redo
  • Shortcut menu
  • Status bar
  • Title bar
  • Undo
July 1 Instructions for making a table of elements in the human body in Word 2007. Email your completed file as an attachment in an email. Due in one week (July 8).
July 2 Word 2007 (Grauer et al.) pp. 69-117.

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How Bits and Bytes Work. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 9).
July 3 Continue with yesterday's assignment Word 2007 (Grauer et al.) pp. 69-117. When you complete the editing of the files, send them as an attachmnt in an email. Due in one week (July 10).

Vocabulary terms to know from page 116 in Word 2007 (Grauer)
  • Case-insensitive search
  • Case-sensitive search
  • Footer
  • Hard page break
  • Hard return
  • Header
  • Section break
  • Soft page break
  • Soft return
  • Toggle switch
  • Word wrap
July 7 Reminder: WORD Test Next Monday!
Make a table that looks as much like this picture as possible (closer view, even closer view, part A even closer view, part B even closer view, part C). Some points: 1) the raised up letters are called superscipts, the lowered letters are called subscripts, 2) the scientific notation uses a symbol for multiplication not a letter x, 3) the small rows are distributed evenly (have the same height), 4) the direction of the writing in a table is found under Table Tools/Layout/Text Direction.   

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How Firefox Works. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 14).
July 8 Use these instructions applied to this rough draft. Due in one week (July 15). (But it is strongly recommended that you finish the exercise before the test.

List of Word skills to know for test

If you want extra Word practice, then try turning this rough document into this.
July 10 Use these instructions to make a document like this one. (You must choose different colors for your plot, different from mine and different from the default colors.) Due in one week (July 17).

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How Fingerprint Scanners Work. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 17).
July 14 Word Test.
July 15 Excel Weather lab (Mainly on formulas) Due in one week (July 22).

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article What happens to your discarded, old computer?. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 22).
July 17 XY Scatter Graphs in Excel 2007. You will need this data

Also make the graph described in these instructions
Due in one week (July 23).
July 18 These exercises can be hard. Ask lots of questions!

Read about IF functions then do these IF-function exercises.


Due in one week (July 24).

Look at this reference on absolute addressing, then try this fitting exercise.

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How Windows Vista Works. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 24).
July 21 More XYScatter plots (Moore's Law and Warbler data)
Due in one week (July 28).

Homework assignment: Even more XYScatter plots (Astronomy plots)
Due in one week (July 28).

Most of these graphs are not fit to straight line. To change a fit from a straight line to some other mathematical formula, right click on the fit line, then choose Format Trendline. You will have the option to change the Type. (Note many people confuse the Power type and the Exponential type; they are different, be careful.)
July 22 Excel Practice (Note the file has three worksheets.)
Due in one week (July 29).

July 24 Introduction to Dreamweaver and web pages

Homework assignment: Read and summarize the following article How File Compression Works. Summaries should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email. Due in one week (July 31).

Test in Excel on Friday, Aug. 1
July 25 Word Equation Editor
Due in one week (Aug. 1).

July 28 In PowerPoint 2007 (Grauer, Krebs & Mulberry) do the following Hands-On Exercises (yellow pages), 89-92, 99-104, 110-115, 121-122
Due in one week (Aug. 4).

Homework Images, Screen captures, and drawing
Due in one week (Aug. 4).
July 29 Make a PowerPoint presentation on a Nobel Prize winner (http://nobelprize.org/index.html).
  • Choose a template.
  • Write and/or copy some text.
  • Copy some graphics.
  • Animate some text or a graphic.
  • It should be a minimum of seven slides (this should include a title slide at the beginning and a reference slide at the end.)

Due Aug. 4.

July 31 Integration exercise (Millikan)
Due Aug. 4.

Aug. 1 Excel Test
Aug. 4 Finish assignments.


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