CS 130- Intro to Software Tools



Time

Topics

Notes

Assignments
Tuesday
January 7
1-2:30pm

Welcome
Turing
Software Tools

Turing

Software Tools

Assignment 0: Questionnaire - DUE Thursday, January 9 at 3:15pm
3:15-4:45pm
Intro to Excel - cells, formulas, binary operators, precedence, associativity, named cells, errors

Intro to Excel

Wednesday
January 8
1-2:30pm Excel functions,
absolute & relative cell references
filling cells
Charts


Excel Functions

3:15-4:45pm importing web data
Combination cell references,
trace precedents and dependents, range of values,
PMT function.



Excel PMT Function


Assignment 1
Worksheet 1 Spreadsheet

DUE at 1pm on Friday, January 10
Thursday
January 9
1-2:30pm Payment tables,
what-if analysis, goal seeking. Comparison operators, IF function.


Excel IF Function

3:15-4:45pm Logical operators (AND, OR), pie charts, conditional formatting, nested Ifs.

Friday
January 10
1-2:30pm In class problems

Excel Problems
Assignment 2

DUE at 1pm on Tuesday, January 14
3:15-4:45pm In class problems


Monday
January 13
1-2:30pm Excel Regression
Excel Regression

3:15-4:45pm Review Review Problems

Tuesday
January 14
1-2pm Review


3:00-4:45pm Midterm Exam

Wednesday
January 15
1-2:30pm SPSS - setting up a dataset,
descriptive statistics

SPSS - Intro

3:15-4:45pm SPSS - Importing data from various sources
Graphing

SPSS - Charts




Thursday
January 16
1-2:30pm SPSS - Regression
SPSS - Importing Data
SPSS - Regression

SPSS - Importing
Assignment 3 - DUE at 1pm on Tuesday, January 21
3:15-4:45pm SPSS - Hypothesis testing SPSS - Hypothesis Testing

Friday
January 17
1-2:30pm Hypothesis Testing Worksheet, Mail Merge, Equation Editor Hypothesis Testing Worksheet

Equation Editor

3:15-4:45pm PowerPoint PowerPoint

Monday
January 20
1-2:30pm MLK DAY -
NO CLASS


Tuesday
January 21
1-2:30pm Review
Review Worksheet

3:15-4:45pm Review


Wednesday
January 22
1-3:30pm Final Exam