CSE3: Fluency in Information Technology; by Steven Scott Julson

Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Word

Making Information Available to the World with HTML and Web Pages

Computational Thinking

Presentation of Information with MS PowerPoint

Data Analysis and Visualization with MS Excel

Visual Programming with Alice

Dynamic Webpage Programming with JavaScript

“Computational thinking” involves and encompasses the thinking processes behind problem solving, as well as understanding the capabilities and limitations of computer systems, etc.

Using HTML coding in Notepad++ and utilizing the SSH uploader, our labs enabled us to put simple webpages online.

Labs #1 and #2 introduced the basic workings of Microsoft Word.

Lab #5used Excel-based graphs within PowerPoint to cleanly display stock-related information.

Labs #4 and #5 explored the basic functions of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program..

Lab #6 offered a crash course in the visual programming software Alice, which involves simple coding of animations.

The course concluded with an introduction to rudimentary JavaScript, from the coding itself to the webpage-based results.