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




June 24 Checked network, portal, and email accounts.
Brief Discussion on search engines (e.g. Google) and Wikipedia.
Quick tour of the library's website (including searching the catalog and finding articles using databases).


Homework assignment: Watch the following video and write a brief summary of it. Ad-Aware Read the following article and write a brief summary of it. Pop-up Blockers. Put your summaries in one Word document (include your name) and email it to me.
Due in one week (July 1).
June 25 Word Introduction. Follow the instructions in the PowerPoint presentation to make a Word document with song lyrics or a poem of your choosing.
Due in one week (July 2).
June 29 Word Tables: Elements in the Body. Follow the instructions in the Word document to make another Word document with a table of elements in the human body.
Due in one week (July 6).

Homework assignment: Read the following and write a brief summary
MySpace, Facebook and Job Searching
To Blog or Not to Blog?.
and either
How to Change Facebook Privacy Settings or
How to Change MySpace Privacy Settings
Put your summaries in one Word document (include your name) and email it to me. Due in one week (July 6).
June 30 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.    (Some Instructions)

Search engine lab
Due in one week (July 7).
July 1 Use these instructions applied to this rough draft. Due in one week (July 8).

If you want extra Word practice, then try turning this rough document into this.

Homework assignment:  Read the following article and write a brief summary of it.
How Phishing Works Watch the following video and write a brief summary of it. Phishing Trips
Due in one week (July 8).
July 2 Word Equation Editor
Due in one week (July 9).

Use Internet Explorer for the following links:
Watch the Tracked Changes Demo
Watch the Setting a password on a document demo
Send me an email that 1) describes a situation in which you might want to use Word's Track Changes feature, and 2) describes a situation in which you might want to protext a document with a password.
Due in one week (July 9).

July 6 Use Internet Explorer for the following links:
Watch Demo: Insert and delete rows, columns, and worksheets
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 13).

Homework assignment:  Watch Get to know Excel 2007: Create your first workbook. (Note the text of the audio is shown below the image -- in case you do not have speakers or head phones. Make a Word document that has three screen captures of the completed "Test yourself" pages. To place a screen capture on the "clipboard" highlight the application you want to make a screen capture of, then hit Alt+Print Screen keys (simultaneously) on the keyboard. Next go to your Word document, place the cursor where you would like the screen capture, right click and choose Paste from the menu.
Due in one week (July 13).
July 7 Excel Weather lab (Mainly on formulas) Due in one week (July 14).

Use Internet Explorer for the following links:
Watch Demo: Excel formulas
(Nothing is due, but the demo is worth watching.)
July 9 XY Scatter Graphs in Excel 2007. You will need this data

Also make the graph described in these instructions
Due in one week (July 16).

Homework assignment:  Read the following article What happens to your discarded, old computer?. Then watch the video G Word: TV and Computer Recycling Write a summary and/or response. It should be in a Word document that should be attached in an email.
Due in one week (July 16).
July 13 Reminder Word test on Friday!

Read about IF functions then do these IF-function exercises.
Due in one week (July 20).

More XY-Scatter Graphs Make these XY-Scatter graphs from Astronomy
Due in one week (July 20).

Homework assignment:  Read and summarize the following article How Windows Vista Works.
Due in one week (July 20).
July 14 Look at this reference on absolute addressing, then try this fitting exercise.
Due in one week (July 21).

More XYScatter plots (Moore's Law and Warbler data)
Due in one week (July 21).

List of Word Skills on Test
July 16 Word Test Tomorrow! Review your skills!

Nuclear decay simulation
Due in one week (July 23).

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 23).
July 17 Word Test
July 20 Excel Practice (Note the file has three worksheets.)
Due in one week (July 27).

Homework assignment: Watch the following video and write a brief summary of it. XHTML
Due in one week (July 27).
July 21 Use Internet Explorer for the following link:
Read/watch the material at PowerPoint: creating your first presentation. Then submit the PowerPoint "Practice" presentation(s) found on the site.
July 23 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 in one week (July 30).

Homework assignment: Images, Screen captures, and drawing
Due in one week (July 30).
July 24 Integration exercise (Millikan)
Due in one week (July 31).

Read Create a bibliography (It may require Internet Explorer.) Nothing due, but it might help with the papers you have to write.
July 27 Introduction to Dreamweaver and web pages
Due in one week (Aug. 3).

Homework assignment: Read How Twitter Works and write a brief summary of it.
Due in one week (Aug. 3).
July 28 Graphing practice uses this Excel Data
Due by end (Aug. 3).
July 30 Excel Test Tomorrow!

Calculating interest and Fibonacci numbers
Due by end (Aug. 3).


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