Courses Wayne State University College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs (CULMA) Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) Computers and Society courses, Winter 2003 (Bowen) at blackboard.wayne.edu Wednesdays, 6 - 9:40 PM in Computer Classroom 16 at WACC Computers and Society     GST 2710, Section 986, CRN 25072, 4 credits Computers and Society     AGS 3360, Section 986, CRN 25009, 4 credits Office hours: Wednesdays 5 - 6 PM at WACC	Instructor
	David R. Bowen 2311 A/AB Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202	Daytime tel: (313) 577-1498 Evening tel: (248) 549-8518 FAX: (313) 577-8585 Home Page:     http://www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/drbowen Email: d.r.bowen@wayne.edu

Last updated: 4/2/03
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Eleventh class: Agenda 11
Wednesday April 2

1. Announcements
   1. Quiz 2, one-half hour at the beginning of class tonight.
   2. The assignment on Agenda 10 should have been labeled Assignment 11, due tonight, April 2.
   3. Handouts: (a) Agenda 11, (b) File Sizes for Computer Information, (c) Paper and Pencil Computer (2 handouts)
   4. Reminder: sign in at the beginning of class; sign out at the end.
   5. The Final Exam is April 30. A Topics sheet for material since Quiz 2 will be handed out on April 16. The Final will be cumulative, covering also the Topics sheets for the Midterm and Quiz 2. There will be a question-and-answer review on April 23. 
   6. You can access the course web site either through Blackboard or through the public web (no login), www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/drbowen/casw03
   7. Online grade reports are available if you have first used the Course Information Form to change the information under "GradeReports" from No to Yes. If you want to go over your grades with me, without using the Online Grade Reports, see me outside of class.
   8. Passbacks and comments. So far, the assignments are not coming in on time, except for a few people.
   9. Besides 5 - 6 PM on Wednesdays, you can find me at the office hours for my other class, 6 - 7 PM on Fridays in Room 122 Cohn on campus, diagonally across from A/AB (IS headquarters) on the intersection of Palmer and Cass. I do not stay beyond 6:45 if no one is there.
2. Reminders
   1. Essay is due April 23; see Agenda 2 Item II.C.2 for details.
3. Topics we will cover in class tonight:
   1. File Sizes for Computer Information
      1. Types of computer information (review)
      2. Number of values in n bits (review)
      3. Sound file storage
      4. Number storage
      5. Computer instruction storage (programs)
   2. Paper and Pencil Computer
      1. Structure
      2. Instruction Set
      3. Execution Loop
      4. Examples
4. File Sizes for Computer Information (handout)
5. Paper and Pencil Computer (handouts)
6. Lab 10. Read the following steps all the way through before starting. Please label your work "Lab 10."
   1. In Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, do Integration Tutorial 1 (Int 1.01 through 1.19, this comes just after the Excel tutorials - NOT Int 2). If you are going to do this outside of this lab, make sure that you know which pages to work on before you leave class tonight. Print out your document as described and a cover sheet made using Word (see below), and save your document to your floppy diskette.
   2. In this tutorial, you start from three existing files, Letter.doc, NEGHA.xls and Products.xls, all of which you can download from the course web site or get from the CD that came with your book.
   3. Create a one-page cover sheet for your lab using Word. On the cover sheet, put:
      1. Your name
      2. This Assignment (Lab 10)
      3. Your location (Wayne County Center)
      4. The full path (drive, any folders, and filename) that you saved your Excel file with.
      5. Print out the cover sheet and staple it in front of your printouts.
   4. As a result of your work in this lab, you should be able to do the following under test conditions:
      1. Start Word and Excel, beginning with the computer off.
      2. Open an existing documents and workbooks and save them under other names.
      3. Explain the difference between linking and embedding objects from one application to another.
      4. Embed or Link an Excel object (a section of a worksheet or a chart) in a Word document.
      5. Edit an embedded object from within the "paste" application (here, Word).
      6. Edit a linked object from within the "copy" application (here, Excel).
      7. Save and print a document including embedded and linked objects.
   5. To practice these without the detailed directions in the Tutorial, look at the Review Assignment and Case Problems on Pages EX 1.19 through 1.22.
7. Don't forget to Sign Out!
8. Turning your computer off
   1. Save any files that you have worked on during the class and still have open
   2. Click on "Start" then Shut Down...
   3. Make sure that "Shut down the computer" is selected and click "Yes"
   4. Wait for the dialog "It is now safe to turn off your computer.", then turn off the power using the red switch under the desktop.

Assignment 12, due in class on April 9. Please write or type "Assignment 12" on the work you turn in for this assignment.

1. Do the Logic Gate homework sheet as part of Assignment 12.
2. If we finish the Paper and Pencil Computer worksheet, do the Paper and Pencil Computer homework sheet as part of Assignment 12.
3. In Computers, Technology, and Society, read Chapter PRV and answer the following Review questions on Pg PRV-37: 5, 6, 7, 8.
4. Finish reading the handout "Issues in Science and Technology" for discussion in class on April 9. The issues in this handout can also be used as a topic for your Essay.
5. In Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, read Access 1 in preparation for Lab 11 next week.