Course Information

CS130 Introduction to Software Tools
Many disciplines are finding the need to gather, manipulate, analyze, and graph data. This course will introduce students to software tools that aid in this process. Software that is widely used at Pacific includes: a Statistics Software Package, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Class includes lab projects. Prerequisite: MATH 125 with a minimum grade of C. 2 credits.

Schedule:

	Date	Topics	Homework & Assignments	Notes
Week 1	Aug 29	Syllabus Connect to Grace Course Intro Excel Intro - cells, formulas, binary operators, precedence, associativity, basic cell referencing, named cells, formatting cells, errors, functions, range of cell values, filling cells		Syllabus Grace Intro Intro to Excel
	Aug 31	Excel functions, absolute & relative cell referencing, goal seek, importing web data, charting		Excel Functions
	Sept 2
Week 2	Sept 5	Labor Day - No Class
	Sept 7	Finish Last Lecture Go over Assign #1	Assign #1
	Sept 9
Week 3	Sept 12	Intermediate Excel | Functions | What if		More Functions
	Sept 14	Finish Sept 12 Lecture Adv Excel | Conditional Calculations | Logical IF	Assign #1 due	Logical IF
	Sept 16
Week 4	Sept 19
	Sept 21	Go over assignment Review for exam	Assign #2
	Sept 23
Week 5	Sept 26	Midterm		Review
	Sept 28	Excell Regression	Assign #2 due	Regression
	Sept 30
Week 6	Oct 3	Finish Regression Introduction to R		R Intro
	Oct 5	Visualization with R		R Visualization
	Oct 7	Fall Break - No Class
Week 7	Oct 10	Inferential Statistics	Assign #3	R Inferential
	Oct 12
	Oct 14
Week 8	Oct 17
	Oct 18	Final 6:00pm - 8:30pm		Review