meets Tuesday and Thursday from 0800-0915
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Class Schedule
10 Jan | intro
15 Jan | clients
17 Jan | servers
22 Jan | networks
24 Jan | basics lab
29 Jan | structural layer
31 Jan | presentational layer
05 Feb | working with layers
07 Feb | behavior layer
12 Feb | images & design
14 Feb | website lab
19 Feb | document markup
21 Feb | tools that read markup
26 Feb | document markup lab
28 Feb | spreadsheets
05 Mar | formulas & functions
07 Mar | data display
19 Mar | database tools
21 Mar | spreadsheets lab
26 Mar | relational databases
28 Mar | tables
02 Apr | relationships
04 Apr | input & output
09 Apr | SQL
11 Apr | complex queries
16 Apr | databases lab
18 Apr | presentation design
23 Apr | presentation delivery
25 Apr | presentation lab
30 Apr | 0800-1100 | final in class presentation
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You will be called upon to demonstrate specific spreadsheet skills on a set of worksheets.
You are to download and modify several existing worksheets to make them a more useful product. To be specific, these worksheets from a variety of publicly available data provided by the US government in spreadsheet form.
The task will require you to construct a workbook that can be used both as an electronic spreadsheet and as a paper product, capable of being easily used by a busy executive. The final workbook will include:
You are to modify 12 worksheets in some fashion to make them more useful both as an electronic and as a paper product. You will be expected to create 4 additional worksheets by copying and modifying one or more of the provided worksheets.
Some worksheets will be modified specifically to make the data in them more visible. This may include converting data already in the worksheet to different kinds of data; may include using one or more of the tools to manipulate the data; or may include using your formatting skills to tidy up some spreadsheet inefficiencies.
Everything in this task is something we will have demonstrated and/or tried in class.
There are several different commercial spreadsheet software applications, and you may use the one of your choice. However, I will have to be able to open the file using either MSOffice or OpenOffice.
You may work on task 03, 04, and 05 in groups. You may, if you choose to, also do task 06 as a group project. These are some rules of thumb to follow for group work in INLS161.
Note who your work group members are and be sure you know them by face and by email address. As you work together, I would like you to follow this process for your work:
You have a gradesheet to provide guidance. Everything on that gradesheet will be analogous to something we will have done in class.
Save the finished product using the standard file name structure for this class
An example of a standard file name might be johnson.pat.20190325.task04.spreadsheet.xlsx
Add a hyperlink to your task 04 page to the completed task file which will be stored in your Sakai dropbox location for INLS161..