http://www.pearsonhighered.com/exploring/

to d/l the files for the lab book

file:///C:/josh/hello1.html#dest


we got up to html paragraphs at w3schools

cams.qc.cuny.edu

3 levels of formatting
* Character level
* paragraph level
* section level

Homework:
Word, Ch 1, practice exercises
Lecture Book, Ch 2, the quickchecks at the

end of each section

In lab, we finished Ch 2, hands-on-exercise 3. But we have not completed hands-on exercise 4 yet, so no practice exercises from the end of that chapter.

** file extensions, how we can see them, what

they mean

chap1_ho3_credit_solution.docx

file extensions mark the TYPE of the file

TXT  = text
file associations
In old Operating Systems (like MS-DOS), you would first start the program, then you would open the file in the program

In modern Operating Systems, there are file associations. If the extension is .docx, then docx is associated with Microsoft Word. It will launch the program automatically.

In Access,
.accdb
.laccdb

In web pages:
.htm
.html

In Word:
.doc = word 2003 file (also word 97)
.docx = word 2007, 2010
.docm = macro enabled document

HTML - the language people use to make web pages

http://w3schools.com/

html
we read thru until HTML paragraphs

http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/tutors.html

lecture

* Macros in Word
Mail Merge

qccs012.blogspot.com

Visual Basic is a programming language
Visual Basic for Applications is a programming language

Macro

Mail Merge
* need database (of patients)
* template document

binary
bit

8 bits = byte
4 bits = nibble
2 bytes = word
4 bytes = dword
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
2^10 = 1024
2^20 bytes = approx 1 million = 1 megabyte
2^30 bytes = approx 1 billion = 1 gigabyte
trilobite = Trilobites (play /ˈtraɪləbaɪt/, /ˈtrɪləbaɪt/; meaning "three lobes") are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita
2^40 bytes = terabyte

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

also in computer speed
megahertz
bigger number, faster the computer, more powerful

we saw how to convert from binary to decimal
11010111 is 215 in binary

HW:
Convert 24 to binary
Convert 124 to binary

What is 1000111 in decimal?
What is 10010 in decimal?

First quiz -- two weeks from now. up to this.

counting in binary, adding in binary

A comp can store #s
How do we store letters?
we store them as numbers
ASCII - american standard code for information interchange
ASCII chart
how many poss different characters can we store?
http://www.cdrummond.qc.ca/cegep/informat/Professeurs/Alain/images/ASCII1.GIF
7 bits = 128 poss values
extended ASCII, using all 8 bits
256 possible values

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

How do I encode colors?
pixels = picture element
in a 256 color bitmap
1 pixel = 1 byte

16 colors; each pixel = 1 nibble
monochrome, each pixel = 1 bit

True color
takes 3 bytes per pixel
RGB
red green blue
256 poss values for each

HW: Lecture book, quickcheck at the end of each lettered section in chapter 1

Word Exam walkthrough

Practice Word Exam.
Word practice exam file, 

Word exam:

Welcome to CS12, Sunday!

qccs012.blogspot.com

Joshua Waxman
joshwaxman@gmail.com

* Lecture -- concepts of computers
* Lab -- hands on skills, microsoft office

Lecture:
New Perspectives on Computer Concepts, 10th Edition, Comprehensive (New Perspectives Series)

Lab:
Big diff bet Office 2003 and Office 2007
Exploring Microsoft Office 2007 Vol. 1 (3rd Edition) (Spiral-bound)

I-building, help desk

* three lab exams (word - 10%, excel - 25%, access - 25%)
* powerpoint project - 5%
* lecture exam - 10%
* hw - 10%
* web project - 10%
* quizzes - 10%

What do you need to do the lab exercises and lab homeworks?
* data - from prentice hall's website
* programs - Microsoft Ultimate Steal (Professional Academic Edition)

1 point = 1/72"

input
output
memory (RAM)
math ability
control

CPU - central processing unit. contains:
*ALU - arithmetic / logic unit
*control unit

von Neumann architecture

instead of specialized machines
universal computer, general purpose computer

hardware -- physical components
software -- instructions, computer programs

fetch-execute cycle

computer program: a bunch of instructions

1. Say: Please enter a #
2. Get a number, store it in X
3. Say: Please enter another #
4. Get a number, store it in Y
5. Add X and Y, store it in Z
6. Say: X + Y = Z
7. Go to step 1

IP: instruction pointer (within the control unit)

Artificial Intelligence
Alan Turing - Turing test


Don't need to get this, but C++ Express Edition

In C++
// calculator1.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int x, y, z;
beginning:
    cout << "Please enter a #: ";
    cin >> x;
    cout << "Please enter another #: ";
    cin >> y;
    z = x + y;
    cout << x << " + " << y << " = " << z << endl;
    goto beginning;
    return 0;
}


A computer only understands machine language
01000010001
annoying

assembly language
MOV AX, 4
MOV BX, 6
ADD AX, BX
SAY AX

there will be a computer program which takes an assembly language program as input, will spit out the machine language program as output

assembler
disassembler
still annoying

programming languages:
Visual Basic, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Prolog, Lisp

we need to translate it

Visual basic:
For I = 1 to 10
    Msgbox "Hello there!"
Next

translators:
* compiler
* interpreter

interpreted is slower
you get to send the original plaintext instructions for an interpreted languages

C++ compiled language
Javascript interpreted languages

how do I make a 9 page paper into a 10 page
paper?
* line spacing (multiple and exactly)
* adjust the margins
* increase size of period
* add footnotes and images
* add meaningful text
* font face. fixed width, proportional width
* letter spacing
* widow and orphan protection

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