Thursday, January 31, 2008

Using the Digital Dropbox to Submit Homework Assignments

We'll go over this in class, so don't worry about it, but here is a video taking you through the steps.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Class 1 homework:

  1. Buy the book, Microsoft Office 2003 Enhanced, volume 1
  2. At home, try running WINWORD, MSACCESS, EXCEL, POWERPNT to see if you have it.
  3. Download from the Prentice Hall website the student data disk for the course.
  4. See if you got an email to your QCMAIL account with your CUNY portal password. (This will be needed to use Blackboard.)
  5. Play a game of Solitaire.
  6. Have a good week!

class 1 summary


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Operating Systems
Windows XP
DOS
UNIX
Microsoft Office
Word
Excel
Access
Powerpoint
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Web page development
Create videos (webcam, Camstudio)



How to get Microsoft Office
* Go to CS Departmental Office
ask Xiui Huang about Microsoft Academic Advantage
to get Microsoft Office
* Go to CompUSA
* Download OpenOffice or StarOffice
openoffice.org
* Work from labs
* Have it already

Starting application
Start/Run
WINWORD
POWERPNT
EXCEL
MSACCESS
SOL


prenhall.com/grauer

WYSIWG - What you see is what you get
* any text at all, including no text at all
? any single character