CS 103: Computer Science with Business Problems

Announcements

• December 11: Each group must e-mail me (marvin@njit.edu) the following by Monday 12/14/09:
  1. the Excel file that you used for your CS 103 project
  2. the Word file of the memorandum for your project.
  If I don't receive these files by Monday 12/14, then your group will receive a zero on the project.
• December 6: The final exam will be cumulative. It will cover Chapters 1-5, 7, 8, 10, 12-16. The format will be like the midterms (a combination of true/false, multiple choice, short answer, and problems to work out).
• December 3: In Excel, you can nest IF statements. For example, you can use something like the following: =IF(condition1,calc1,IF(condition2, calc2, calc3)) . The way that Excel will interpret this is as follows. If condition1 is true, then calc1 is done. If condition1 is not true, then if condition2 is true, then calc2 is done. If condition1 is not true, then if condition2 is not true, then calc3 is done.
• November 20: Our final exam will be Mon., 12/14/09, 14:30 - 17:00, in TIER 108. For more details, see the registrar's final exam schedule
• November 20: During Thanksgiving week, NJIT changes the days and times classes meet. On Tuesday, 11/24, classes will follow a Thursday schedule. On Wednesday, 11/25, classes will follow a Friday schedule. Since our class normally meets on Fridays, we will have class on Wednesday, 11/25, 2:30 - 3:55. For more details, see the registrar's webpage
• November 9: Homework 3 has been posted. It is due November 16.
• November 2: I have posted the group project. It is due December 4. You must work in a group of two or three students; you will lose 50 points out of 100 if you do not. The project will take some time to complete, so do not wait until the last minute to start.
• November 2: Today is the last day to withdraw from a course at NJIT.
• October 23: The midterm will be on Monday, November 2. This is a change from the midterm date that is given in the syllabus, which was October 30.
• October 9: The due date for Homework 2 has been changed to October 19.
• October 9: Homework 2 has been posted. It is due on October 16.
• September 30: I posted the solutions to the old exams. Also, I posted a corrected version of Midterm 2 from last fall.
• September 28: For any quizzes and exams, if you arrive to the classroom after everyone has already finished the quiz or exam, then you will not be allowed to take the quiz or exam and will receive a 0.
• September 28: Here is the webpage that we used to today to play with RGB colors and hexadecimal numbers.
• September 28: I posted some old exams here.
• September 21: The first midterm will be on Friday, October 2. It will be closed book and closed notes. Be sure to bring photo ID.
• September 21: I will be out of town attending a workshop. I am leaving today (9/21) after office hours, and I will be back at NJIT on Thursday.
• September 21: Here is the webpage we built in the last class. To see the html code, do the following:
  • In Internet Explorer, go to the "View" menu, and choose "Source".
  • In Firefox, go to the "View" menu, and choose "Page Source".
• September 18: I just posted a correction to Homework 1. "Unordered list" should have been "unnumbered list".
• September 16: Homework 1 has been posted.
• September 14: NJIT has a site license with several software vendors, allowing students to download certain software packages. Here is a link. We will be using some Microsoft Excel and Access later, so make sure you have Microsoft Office installed on your computer.
• September 14: The webpages I showed in class last week are http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/, which demonstrates graphically how packets are sent over the internet, and http://www.ip-adress.com/, which translates hostnames into ip addresses.
• August 31: You should do the Review Questions at the end of every chapter we go over on your own. You do not have to turn them in, but the quizzes and exams will be similar to the Review Questions.
• August 31: I will hand out the lecture notes for Chapter 1 in the first class, but students will be responsible to bring their own printouts of the other chapters for the rest of the semester.

Instructor

Textbook

Lawrence Snyder, Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2008, ISBN: 0-321-51239-1.

Course Materials

Much of the course material is in PDF, which requires that you have Adobe Reader to open the file. You can download Adobe Reader for free from here.

• Syllabus
• Group Project
• Lecture Notes
• Homework
• Old Exams