Lecture notes for the Introduction to computers by James Tam Return to the course web page

CPSC 203: Tutorial Schedule

Week Topics to be covered
September 16 - 22
  • Introduction: UC-IT accounts, webdisk, useful software, assignment submissions via Blackboard
September 23 - 29
  • Introduction to TAIT, Working through Excel lesson 1
September 30 - October 6
  • First tutorial (M or T): Open tutorial (TA’s won’t be teaching new material but will be available during the tutorial time to answer questions)
  • TAIT quiz is cancelled for this week
October 7 - 13
  • First tutorial: Monday (no tutorial), Tuesday (TA's will talk about the Excel Assignment)
  • Second tutorial (W or R): Students take Excel Quiz #1 that was cancelled last week
October 14 - 20
  • First tutorial: Monday (TA's will talk about the Excel Assignment), Tuesday (open tutorial, the TA will be available for questions but no new material will be taught).
  • Second tutorial (W or R): Excel Quiz 2
October 21 - 27
  • Open tutorials this week
October 28 - November 3
  • First tutorial: Number conversions (binary to decimal, decimal to binary), Logic
  • Second Tutorial: Access Quiz 1
November 4 - 10
  • First tutorial: TA's cover any material from last week that was not yet completed, TA's describe the requirements for the second (database) assignment
  • Second tutorial: TA's cover some of the more difficult features of Access that are relevant to the assignment
November 11 - 17
  • Second tutorial: Access Quiz 2
November 18 - 24
  • How to build a web page via your university IT account [Reference link]
  • Using MS-FrontPage to build a web page (entering text, changing fonts, font sizes, font types, using tables, inserting images, creating hyper links, changing the title property, changing the background)

 

November 25 - December 1
  • First tutorial (M or T): Word Quiz 1 (choice quiz 1)
  • Second tutorial (W or R): PowerPoint Quiz 1 (choice quiz 1)
December 2 - 8
  • First tutorial (M or T): Word Quiz 2 (choice quiz 2)
  • Second tutorial (W or R): PowerPoint Quiz 2 (choice quiz 2)