Programming day one

Resetting the clock here...

Today we start programming mdash; our reason to live! Handouts will be provided. You can get started by checking out a language called Liberty Basic using your fave search engine.

Day umpteen + 1: a snootful of PowerPoint

Current assignment, due via e-mail by 5 pm, Friday, October 19: a judiciously composed PowerPoint based on your ten-itme web bibliography.

Judicious? You shouldn't even try to show everything. Pick some of the best stuff, and use PowerPoint tools to make good illustrations of your thoughts.

Many links follow.

Tufte's lament click

Derek Miller's collection click includes two exemplary photos

Death to PowerPoints? not really click

viral video showing a popular minimalist style
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"Presentations are as much about slides as poetry is about handwriting," according to Doc Searls click

two strictly HTML alternatives to PowerPoint: S5 click and Slidy click — small file sizes, as portable as websurfing, accessible to us with our knowledge of CSS!

Lovely fractal drawings

Links to programs here and here...

Mathematically beautiful screen savers

Delicious. Click here.

Software to explore

If you like spending your time trying out software you used to get along without (who, me?), then I recommend this page of links from the Shareware Industry Awards.

iPhone and the "cheap revolution"

This article from the Wall Street Journal says that it's users in Eastern Europe and India whose spending power requires our prices to drop. Interesting!

This link will die soon, so click now.

One laptop per child

OLPC is an effort to get cheap laptops into the hands of children around the world. See the video from David Pogue at the New York Times; visit the site at laptop.org.

Submitting the web page assignment

You will submit two ways: one, a hard copy in my mailbox; the other, a URL for your web page on your NVCC web space.

Will I check your links and code? Yes.

To see all the specs again, click here.

Day 13: more Excel

Today's assignment, due not later than Thursday, October 11, is Project 11D, loan calculations, on pages 817 - 820 of our textbook.

You must use formulas for this assignment to work! Be sure to do Paste Special with FORMULAS and formats.

E-mail me your finished workbook with both pages.

Day twelve: intro to Excel worksheets

Today we will be doing Chapter 9 of the textbook. I will demonstrate a sample like Project 9A, but somewhat simplified.

Your assignment is Project 9I, pages 665 - 667, which is due by 11 a.m. on Thursday, less than 48 hours from now. If you prefer to work independently rather than follow the demonstration, please do.