OverviewFluency with Information Technology is a state-of-the-art IT class for non-techies. CSE 3 teaches you to be Fluent with IT. In this course, we learn how to use Scratch, Photoshop, Excel, notepad++, and PowerPoint. Basically, CSE3 class is designed to help students learn application & science of IT, prepare for a lifetime of expanding your use of IT.http://ieng6.ucsd.edu/~cs3wa/index.html

Visual Programming with Scratch

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. In the class, students have a great chance to use this program to create little games.

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/About_Scratch

Data Analysis and Visualization with

ExcelMicrosoft Excel is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA. It has been the most widely used spreadsheet application available for these platforms since version 5 in 1993. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel

Computational Thinking

omputational thinking is about thinking widely and in various levels of views. Also it is about how to think of something differently. In this course, students learn computational thinking by designing webpage, scratch game, editing photos, and making graphs based on data.

Presentation of Information with

Word& PowerPointUsing Word and PowerPoint to present information about lots of monotonous data is a great way to express ideas and show information clearly and more understandable. Image Analysis

and Manipulation with Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, launched by Adobe Systems in 1990, updated several times, and still the most widely used software application for processing digital images. This program is very professional in photo editing. In the class, students can learn about basic skills in Photoshop. http://www.answers.com/topic/adobe-photoshop

Making Information Available to the World with HTML and Web Pages

 Every work students have done are all available to view on line from CSE3 Page which including all most of the homework and labs.

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