1. CIS101 Introduction to Computing Week 03 Spring 2004

2. Agenda Group in teams Your questions (check gradebook) Discussion board topics Practice Excel Team Assignment (next week) Charts formulas Excel project three This week’s assignments

3. Discussion Board Strategic use of IT Compare Walmart (success) with failure (Webvan) Jason’s “compelling resource” posting

4. Week 3 Discussion Board Computer mediated communication Business use of computer communication and collaboration tools to produce work with “virtual teams”

5. Review of Charts Basic terminology Data series – a set of information (data) that will be plotted on a graph (same color) Legend – box that displays the relationship between a data series and its assigned color

6. Chart types Displays the relationships between numbers in a series Column, bar, line Displays the relationship of parts to a whole pie Some examples from your homework

7. Formulas and Excel Use predefined formulas from formula menu Examples: autosum, average, min, max Enter your own formula depending on application Examples: in project 2, calculating current value, net gain/loss, etc.

8. Entering formulas Start with = (equal sign) Use arithmetic operators in formula +, -, *, /, ^, () Follow order of operations (p. 2.10) Type in cell references (i.e. F5) or use point method (click on cell)

9. Order of Operations Operations are carried out following order of operations from algebra not always left to right, depends on what operations are performed Table 2.2 describes the order of operations You can use parentheses to override (change) this order Table 2.3 gives examples JavaScript also follows the same order of operations for formulas

10. Built-in functions Excel includes prewritten formulas called functions Function takes a value or values, performs an operation, then returns result (answer) to the cell Values are called arguments

11. Format for Functions All functions begin with equal sign (=) and include arguments in parentheses Examples: =AVERAGE(D3:D10) =MAX(D3:D10)

12. What functions are available? Click function icon or Click insert sub-menu, select insert function Functions are organized by category

13. Practice with teams With your team members try out Chart exercise Create at least one pie chart Create a summary chart Formulas exercise

14. Project three Start project three Upload (when completed) to digital drop box

15. This week online Reading Concepts chapter 3 (Application Software) Course Documents, week 03 Lecture notes for Concepts chapter 3

16. Assignments Discussion Board postings Online quiz – Concepts chapter 3 Upload project three YourLastName_YourFirstInit_project3.xls Excel homework Cases and Places" exercises (starting on p. 3.79), either #1, #2, #3, #4, or #5. Submit via digital drop box using name yourlastname_yourfirstinitial_week03.xls

17. Next class Excel “Iron Chef” Competition