Sunday, September 30, 2012

http://camstudio.org/
You too can record your screen.
At home, complete Word Ch 3, hands on exercise 3

Practice Word Exam.


Word practice exam file,

Word exam:

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Search commands in the ribbon
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28559

first quiz, next week
questions will come from end of section quick-checks in New Perspectives book (Computer Concepts), chapter 1, sections A-E.

questions will come from Grauer book (exploring word), chapter 2, multiple choice.

Also, I will give a binary number and ask for the decimal equivalent. e.g. I'll tell you 1100. Tell me what it is in decimal.

end of definition of first quiz.

______

machine language
assembly language

x = 0
while (x < 10)
{
    print "hello";
    x = x + 1;   
}
print "this is the end of the program."

mov x, 0
10:
cmp x, 10
jnz 100
print "hello"
add x, 1
jmp 10

higher level languages (e.g. Fortran, C++, Java)
they let you write something closer to your natural language.

http://xkcd.com/
reuse
http://xkcd.com/792/
strength
http://xkcd.com/936/

rot13
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

hello
uryyb

hello

Homework:
Word, ch 2, hands-on exercise 3. Styles. First watch me in class. You do not need to (eventually) hand this one in, but you should know how to do this.

To hand in (once blackboard is up):
Word, ch 2, practice exercise 2. Queen City Medical Equipment.

Khan Academy: intro to coloring (tutorial 2).
Make the smiley face yellow, with a red nose.
http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/intro-to-coloring/844038377

np11_1

Sunday, September 16, 2012

C:\Word
In word, there 3 levels of formatting.
 character
 paragraph
 section
Word fields - calculated fields that display information.
 * page number
 * section number
 * total number of pages

qccs12.blogspot.com
http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/tutors.html
http://www.khanacademy.org/cs
homework:
get yourself a Khan Academy login
(username and password)
try out this first exercise
Intro to Drawing
assignment: draw a face
read:
Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/cosmo-the-god-who-fell-to-earth/
Memory: short term memory, RAM, random access memory. This is very fast, volatile, meaning that pull plug, no more data there. Stores this as electrical charges. more expensive, less space. random access, which is faster.
Storage: long term memory, e.g. hard disk. Usually slower. permanent rather than volatile. cheaper, get more space. sequential access, which is slower.
flash drives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
how computer stores Numbers, letters, programs, etc.
for homework, for yourself. count to 10 in binary. tell yourself what 0111 is in decimal.
ASCII (sometimes ANSI). American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
bits
binary digits
decimal = base 10
binary = base 2
we combine these bits
byte = 8 bits
the more bits, the greater range of values I can store.
many bytes:
1000 or 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1 million bytes, or 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1 megabyte
trilobite = extinct marine arthropod
1 billion bytes or ... = gigabyte
1 thousand gigabytes, 1 trillion bytes = terabyte
1 byte = 8 bits
2 bytes = word
4 bytes = dword
4 bits = half a byte = nibble

http://www.greaterthings.com/Humor/Spelling_Chequer.htm
Grauer homework:
word ch 1, practice exercise 2 (Aztec Computers)

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Welcome!


Josh Waxman
joshwaxman@gmail.com
Microsoft Office
 Word
 Excel
 Access
Computer Concepts
 what is a computer
Hands-on exams
 Word exam - 10%
 Excel exam - 25%
 Access exam - 25%
lecture Homeworks - 10%
web projects - 10%
quizzes - 10%
lecture final - 10%
grauer
bookfinder.com
New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2011: Comprehensive, June Parsons
ISBN-10: 0538744812
ISBN-13: 978-0538744812
Older versions, up to 10th edition, are also acceptable, and all are listed at the Amazon store.
Exploring Microsoft Office 2010, Volume 1, [Spiral-Bound], Robert Grauer
ISBN-10: 0136122329
ISBN-13: 978-0136122326
http://astore.amazon.com/parshablog-20
Dropbox

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try
prenhall.com/grauer
1 point = 1/72"
justify
increase font size (even by 1/2 a point)
fonts
Times New Roman - proportional width font, with serifs
Arial - proportional, sans serif
Courier New - fixed width font, with serifs

wikipedia
adjust margins
line spacing
tree structure
path
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe CS5.5\hello.txt
C:\Word

control
math ability
memory
input
output
von Neumann architecture
ALU and control unit are what we have in a CPU
memory, we call RAM
input and output, we know
bus, carries info from one component to another

Adding machine
take two numbers, add 'em up, output result, loop to ask again, etc.
1. Say "Please enter first #".
2. Get number, store it in X.
3. Say "Please enter second #".
4. Get number, store it in Y.
5. Add X and Y, store result in Z.
6. Say X " plus " Y " is " Z
7. Goto step 1
IP (instruction pointer), part of control unit
fetch-execute cycle
hardware vs. software

Start Microsoft Word?
Start / WINWORD.EXE
WinSCP
http://winscp.net/eng/download.php