CS 150 Personal productivity using technology

1. CS 150 Personal productivity using technology Instructor: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou

2. Who am I? • Dr. X • PhD from North Carolina State University • Worked at IBM • Post doc researcher at College of William and Mary • Scuba diver, manga comics collector, science fiction reader CS150

3. Course Objectives At the end of this course, you will be able to: • Create and format • Word documents, • Excel Spreadsheets • and PowerPoint Presentations. • Enhance your productivity using • Word mail merge, • Excel charts, formulas, functions, datasets and tables • Present your portfolio using PowerPoint presentations and rich media tools. • Create, edit and improve a professional webpage. CS150

4. Course Objectives (cont.) At the end of this class you will be able to: • Collaborate using cloud computing documents. • Solve professional and everyday life problems fast and effectively using Microsoft Office 2010. • Secure your documents and understand safety issues. CS150

5. My goals • Help you become proficient with tools that will be useful for your college classes and your major • Explore the beauty of the digital world with you • Study cool emerging technologies with you CS150

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7. Why do you need CS 150? • Word skills used for: • Research papers, Essays • Curriculum Vitae • Automate repeatable (BORING!) tasks CS150

8. Why do you need CS 150? • Excel skills for: • Automation of repeatable (BORING!) computations • Performance reports, profit and loss reports • Graphs • Simulationof what if scenarios CS150

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10. Why do you need CS 150? • PowerPoint used for: • Presentation of your portfolio • Everyday use: photo album, notes, outlines • Games CS150

11. Why do you need CS 150? • Cloud computing • App Inventor • Wix • Security and cybercrime CS150

12. Lectures • Attendance will have a part in your grade • This means: active participation • Complete the in-class work • Submit the in-class work on Blackboard • Check our class webpage frequently: • http://users.ju.edu/xmountr/CS150/ • Read the syllabus and collaboration policies • Reading and examples will be posted online on the course webpage. CS150

13. Lectures • MyITLab will be used for: • Practice exercises • Homework • You need to buy the access code to access myITLab • You may buy the access code from the bookstore or online • You may also buy the book • Online version (e-text) • Hard copy version • The book is recommended not required

14. Class structure • Some theory • A lot of practice! • Class labs (in-class work) with hands on exercises • Interactive • Homework • Practice and apply what we have learned • Understand • Exams • Evaluate your learning CS150

15. Grading • Grades will be determined by: • Two Excel Exams: 25% • Homework: 25% • Project: 40% • Class Participation: 10% • Submitting in-class work on Black Board • 2% extra credit from • Participating in surveys • Participating in RCSS meetings CS150

16. Project • Theme: Build your own company that produces a product or provides services • Deliverables: • A website • An Excel spreadsheet • A simple mobile app • A presentation • A blog

17. Project • Teams of two students • You will evaluate your teammates • If one did not do his/her share of work… I will be informed

18. Policies • Cheating means “submitting, without proper attribution, any material that is directly traceable to the intellectual material written by another person.” • Or even better: “Any form of cheating, including concealed notes during exams, copying or allowing others to copy from an exam, students substituting for one another in exams, submission of another person’s work for evaluation, preparing work for another person’s submission, unauthorized collaboration on an assignment, submission of the same or substantially similar work for two courses without the permission of the professors. Plagiarism is a form of Academic Misconduct that involves taking either direct quotes or slightly altered, paraphrased material from a source without proper citations and thereby failing to credit the original author. Cutting and pasting from any source including the Internet, as well as purchasing papers, are forms of plagiarism.” • I give students a failing homework grade (F) for anycheating • A second cheating attempt will be escalated to the chair of our Division

19. Policies • You may discuss homework problems with classmates, after you have made a serious effort in trying the homework on your own • Empty hands policy • You can use ideas from the literature (with proper citation). • You can use anything from the textbooks/notes. • The homework assignments and projects you submit must be written completely by you. CS 340

20. Policies • Read the collaboration policy carefully. • Late policy: • 2% is reduced for every day the homework is late CS 340

21. How to get help • Join my office hours: 9-10:30 am M/W/F at Merritt Penticoff 203 • Or set an appointment with me via e-mail • Communicate: E-mail!!! • Check our class website frequently CS150

22. Office hours and help-My schedule CS440

23. How to study? • Practice: actively participate in class • Prepare for class • Understand: design principles behind the software packages that we use CS150

24. How to study? • Practice again: submit homework on time • Ask for feedback • Study from course webpage links • Find other resources • Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint in other college classes. Apply what we have learned CS150