Sunday, January 29, 2012

Welcome to CS12

Here is a link to the (tentative) syllabus.

Notes from today's class:

Microsoft Office
practical, hands-on skills

Computer Concepts

Computer Science dept website
http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

For tutor hours
http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/tutors.html

Blackboard
gG56554645

qccs012.blogspot.com

Word Processing Software
Microsoft Word
Wordpad

www.openoffice.org

Web Browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer
IEXPLORE
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome

Web-based email:
Yahoo.com
Hotmail.com
Gmail.com

Homework:
Buy the books
Get yourself a Gmail account
Download WinSCP (not the beta release)
W3schools Learn HTML: Read (and practice!) from “HTML Home” until “HTML Basic”
(see links on the syllabus for these last two.)

beta software
stable version

To open newer (2007 or 2010) office documents in 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3