CSC 170 Fall 2007 Calendar

Date Assignment Reading Notes Subject
24-Aug       Intro; administrivia
27-Aug   P&O Orientation chapter Computer Concepts textbook website Viruses, adware/spyware, DDOS attacks, antivirals
29-Aug   P&O chap. 1   encryption & verification; free speech, surveillance, privacy, tracking
31-Aug HW1  
3-Sep Labor Day; no classes
5-Sep   P&O chap. 2   Computer hardware: compatibility; comparing computer speed; the storage hierarchy
7-Sep    
7-Sep Last day to add classes
10-Sep   P&O chap. 3   Computer software: kinds of software; licensing, piracy, shareware, freeware, open-source
12-Sep    
14-Sep Yom Kippur; no classes
17-Sep   P&O chap. 4   Operating systems; user interfaces; bootstrapping; files and folders; backups; computer crime; Using a Panther account (for file storage, Web hosting, etc.)
19-Sep    
21-Sep   Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML   Building Web pages: using Mozilla, HTML, start/end tags, nesting, titles and headers
21-Sep Last day to drop classes
24-Sep   Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML   HTML: <em>, <strong>, attributes (e.g. alignment), hot-links
26-Sep     HTML: font size, colors, <span>, <div>, and <body> tags
28-Sep HW2, HW3   Uploading Web pages to panther
1-Oct     Pictures, lists
3-Oct   My list examples and my table examples   tables, special characters
5-Oct I'm out of town; no classes
8-Oct HW2 due Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS; W3Schools' CSS Tutorial; my simple CSS example   Cascading Style Sheets
10-Oct    
12-Oct HW3 topic due  
15-Oct   MS Office text: Excel
On-line courses on Excel
What do I think is important?
  Spreadsheets: what and why, basic operations
17-Oct    
19-Oct    
22-Oct    
24-Oct    
26-Oct HW4  
26-Oct Last day to withdraw from classes
29-Oct   MS Office text: Excel
On-line courses on Excel
What do I think is important?
  More spreadsheets; work on HW3 and HW4
31-Oct    
2-Nov HW3 due  
5-Nov       Oral Presentations
7-Nov      
9-Nov HW4 due    
12-Nov   MS Office text: Access
On-line courses on Access
What do I think is important?
  Databases: what and why, tables and fields, types, basic operations
14-Nov    
16-Nov    
19-Nov    
21-Nov Thanksgiving; no classes
23-Nov
26-Nov HW5 MS Office text: Access
On-line courses on Access
What do I think is important?
  More work on databases
28-Nov    
30-Nov    
3-Dec    
5-Dec    
7-Dec    
10-Dec Make-up day
12-Dec HW5 due     Catch up and review
14-Dec      
19-Dec Final exam, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

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Stephen Bloch / sbloch@adelphi.edu