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Agenda – 10/21/2013 Monday - Unit 24

Howard J Rattliff, Jr. –

Principles of Technology - Course # 130227200 -

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Unit 24 Agenda

<Monday>, <Oct 21>, Rm 219 - On CampusDress: Business Casual

   

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1:25 1:30Meeting Final Checks (and Dial in - Not Applicable)

Howard Rattliff0:05 0:00

1:30 1:35<< CLASS BEGINS >> -- Welcome - Introductions of any /Guests?

Howard Rattliff0:05 0:05

1:35 1:40Class Roster (1st 10 minutes of Class)

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1:40 1:45Unit 24 Agenda for Today & LogisticsQuiz and Assignment

Howard Rattliff0:05 0:15

1:45 1:50Quiz Howard Rattliff

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1:50 2:00CLASS Exercise

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2:00 2:25 Quiz Review CLASS Exercise

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Next steps and assignments (Unit 25 – Wed - Oct 23 ) Practice E1.94 Pecan Grove Homeowners Assn & Read 2.1 thru 2.13 in Book -

Howard Rattliff

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Unit 25 Assignment -- 1. Use UME instructor website to view /access lecture notes; 2) Review Quiz #2 on Wed and Lecture Review of reading assignment in class.

   

Assignment – Upgraded Reading and Practice

Due Wed– Wed - Oct 23 for class discussion

1. Practice Ex1.94 Pecan Grove Homeowners Assn in book ( if needed)

2. Read Ex2.4 thru 2.13 in Book - Be prepared to discuss • Inserting graphic embedded objects /pics etc in worksheets• Modifying objects and pics etc

3. Data Rights and Privacy in Handling and Using Data, Etc – Class discussion.

Near-term and Long-Term Look-Ahead

Upcoming schedule of tests planned:

Data Rights and Markings/ Privacy and Security

Visual Basic Programming – Menu Buttons and Layouts and programming utility functions (runtime counters/messages/ comments using the VBE (visual basic command editor)

Program Flow Diagrams and Notation

Quiz (Q-1-2) minor - completed

100 pts graded and scaled to worth 30 pts of total course grade as a percentage

10/21 Monday

Major Test #1 –

comprehensive materials

100 pts and not scaled worth 100 pts to total grade.

10/30 Wed

Class Self-Paced Exercise Lab – Unit 22-1

1. Review concepts in Lab 1 as needed to refresh your skills – Concept Summary pg EX1.78 - Creating and Editing Worksheets Data Headers and Row headers/ data entry into cells

Formulas and other key terms used in Excel for worksheet elements.

2. Read and practice – Inserting and Deleting Rows and Column beginning on page EX1.48 thru EX1.50

3. Actually do the Step by Step Hands On exercise.

Your have to manually input the data as shown in the book.

Instead of printing ( Ignore print instructions! ) . Save you data to H drive with project name or id

EX1.88 – Teenage Cell Phone Usage Data Analysis Start with Entering data as in EX1.89 and make It look like EX1.88 and graph data

using bar charts as in page EX1.88. Final results look like EX1.88. EX1.90 – Animal Rescue Foundation Adoption Analysis

Bar chart of top 3 (largest) animal housing facilities over 4 year period. Why top 3? If you get through – do exercise EX1-94 – Pecan Groves Homeowners Association

Merges, centering data and right and left justify data, add fill color See hint for formula +6% increase in sales (This is using Excel to make forecasts,

estimates / projections !) . Excel is commonly used as a tool to make forecasts.

Take notes please.

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