Comp25: Fall 2008 Comp 25 Course Materials

Interesting Reading: Bill Gates Speech in 1989 about Computing and Networking

Computing and Networking
Week	Homework Due*	Reading Due*	Lectures / Other	Lab Due**
Week 1 Aug 25 - Aug 29		Syllabus Information Processing Cycle	Class Orientation and Computing Today	LAB #1 MANDATORY FOR ALL STUDENTS Enroll in Blackboard Complete Lab1 in Blackboard Information Processing Cycle:
Week 2 Sep 1 - Sep 5	Email to Your Professor Mon Sep 1 (Labor Day - No Class)	Binary Numbers	Binary and Hex Numbers Hardware Software	Binary and Hex Numbers Practice Online
Week 3 Sep 8 - Sep 12	Computer Purchase Sep 8 Last Day to Add	Operating System Hard Disk Drive Defragmentation Root Directory	Operating Systems and Disks and File Management Computing Quiz	Network File Management
Week 4 Sep 15 - Sep 19	More File Management	Networking IP Address Domain Name & DNS Windows Security Checklist	Networking, Packets, IPs, and Domains, and Security	IP Packets Networking and Security Terms Sep 19 Last Day to Drop w/o "W"
Website Development
Week	Homework Due	Reading Due	Lectures / Other	Lab Due
Week 5 Sep 22- Sep 26	Networking and Security and What's Your Business?	Introducing HTML Basic HTML Tags Links Forbidden Errors	Beginning HTML, Navigation, and File Management & Networks Quiz	Create Homepage index
Week 6 Sep 29 - Oct 03	Pages & Navigation	Troubleshooting Images Transparent Images HTML Resources	Images Styles and Style Sheets Reading Review	Company Logo Fall Student Break - Friday Oct 3
Week 7 Oct 06 - Oct 10	Products Webpage	Colors External Style Sheets Printable Quick Ref	Styles and Style Sheets Tables Web Quiz	Style Sheet 1
Week 8 Oct 13 - Oct 17	Style Sheets	HTML Tables	Java and Sound Test 1	Bells & Whistles Java Scripts
Spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel
Week	Homework Due	Reading Due	Lectures / Other	Lab Due
Week 9 Oct 20 - Oct 24	Using Tables	Intro to Excel How To Basic Formatting	Excel Basics Functions & Formulas	Income/Expense Report
Week 10 Oct 27 - Oct 31	Payroll	Basic Calculations Enter Formulas - MS Training Conditional Formulas =IF	Conditional Functions Multiple Sheet Workbooks Excel 1 Quiz	Commissions & Benefits
Week 11 Nov 03- Nov 07	Benefit & Sales Analysis	Grouping Sheets Great Excel Features Making Charts in Excel	Charts Excel 2003 Charts Excel 2007 Text and Data	Customer Mailing
Databases using Microsoft Access
Week	Homework Due	Reading Due	Lectures / Other	Lab Due
Week 12 Nov 10 - Nov 14	Sales Charts	Access Overview Tables Importing Data	Access Basics Tables Excel 2 Quiz	Create Tables
Week 13 Nov 17 - Nov 21	Orders Table	Queries	Queries	Query Set 1
Week 15 Nov 24 - Nov 28	Thanksgiving Week !
Week 14 Dec 01 - Nov 05	Query Set 2C	Forms	Forms Introduction VBA Reports	Customer Order Form
Week 16 Dec 08 - Dec 12	Buttons on Form	Reports	Report Design Access Quiz	Reports & Mailing Labels
Finals Week	Orders Summary Report Final Project

* Homework and Reading are due on the Monday or Tuesday of the week indicated (Sections 1-2 are due on Monday, Sections 3-5 are due on Tuesday).

** Labs are due on the Thursday or Friday of the week indicated (Sections 1-2 are due on Friday, Sections 3-5 are due on Thursday).

Comp25: Fall 2008 Comp 25 Course Materials

Thanksgiving Week !