CS 130- Intro to Software Tools



Date

Topics

Notes

Assignments
Week 1
Aug 27
Welcome
Turing
Software Tools

Intro to Excel - cells, formulas, binary operators, precedence, associativity, named cells, errors
Connecting to Turing

Software Tools

Intro to Excel

Assignment 0 - DUE Friday, Aug 31 @ 3pm


Aug 29
Excel functions, absolute & relative cell referencing, filling cells, importing web data

Excel Functions

Week 2
Sept 3
Labor Day - NO CLASS


Sept 5
Excel functions, importing web data, combination cell references, trace precedents and dependents, range of values, PMT function, payment tables, what-if analysis, and goal seeking.

Intermediary Excel

Assignment 1
Week 3
Sept 10 Comparison operators, IF function, logical operators (AND, OR), nested IFs

Advanced Excel

Sept 12 Continue previous notes.

Excel Regression, conditional formatting

Regression in Excel

DUE - Assignment 1

Assignment 2
Week 4
Sept 17
Continue previous notes:
polynomial, exponential, power, and logarithmic regression

Review for the midterm.

Review

Sept 19
Midterm

DUE - Assignment 2
Week 5
Sept 24 SPSS - setting up a dataset, descriptive statistics, and charting

SPSS - Intro

Sept 26 SPSS - importing data from Excel, regression in Excel

SPSS - Regression

Week 6
Oct 1
Hypothesis Testing

Hypothesis testing I

Hypothesis testing 2
Assignment 3
Oct 3
Word:
  • Mail Merge
  • Equation Editor

Word - Mail Merge and Equation Editor

Week 7
Oct 8 Review 

Oct 10 Final Exam - 4:45-7:45pm
DUE - Assignment 3