Computer Science 12
Week 4
Friday, September 16, 2011
- Paper:
last-first-paper.docx- Excel assignment:
- Continuing the grade roster assignment from last week:
last-first-roster.xlsx- Continuing the invoice assignment from last week:
last-first-invoice.xlsx
Continue work on your paper, as follows: Submit the first draft via Blackboard, by no later than noon on Friday, September 23. It should have the following filename:
The first draft must contain at least three pages and must be divided into at least three sections, with headings. It is strongly recommended, also, that the first draft contain quotes from at least some of your sources. (The second draft will be required to contain at least one quote from all of your sources, which must include at least two websites and at least one physical offline source such as a book.)
In our next class we will show you how to style the headings, which you will need to be able to do in order to create a table of contents later.
Add columns for the total score and "pass/fail." The total score will be based on the following formula: 40% final exam, plus 15% first in-class exam, plus 15% second in-class exam, plus 30% of ten times the quiz average with lowest score dropped. (The quiz score needs to be multiplied by ten to scale it up from a range of 0 to 10 to a range of 0 to 100, to be consistent with the exam scores.) The "pass/fail" column will say "pass" if the total score is at least 65, "fail" if the total score is less than 65.
Fix all errors mentioned in the feedback you got on Blackboard from your previous version.
As before, your Excel spreadsheet should have a filename having the following format:
Continuing the invoice example from last week, add a cell which computes discounts as follows: (1) No discount for the first $100. (2) For subtotals above $100, five percent of the amount that the subtotal exceeds $100. For subtotals above $500, an additional five percent of the amount that the subtotal exceeds $500.
There should be separate cells for (1) the original subtotal, (2) the discount, (3) the subtotal with discount subtracted, and (4) the total with sales tax added.
As before, the invoice should have a filename with the following format:
where "last" and "first" should be replaced by your own last and first name.
Your invoice must be unique, containing a store name, product names, and prices different from those in files submitted by other students in Computer Science 12.
Submit BOTH of the above files in the appropriate area on Blackboard, and have access to the files in lab next week. (The two files should be sumitted separately in the same area on BlackBoard, not in a ZIP file. You must submit both at once, not separately.) We will use them again in future exercises both in lab and in homework.
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On the Excel IF function:
- The IF Function in Excel 2007 on Home and Learn
- Excel Basics and the IF Function on Productivity Portfolio
- The Excel 2007 IF Function on MSOffice-tutorial-training.com
- Using the IF Function in Excel 2007 by Michele McDonough
- Pages on Excel IF Functions, including Excel IF Function Step by Step Tutorial and Excel 2007 IF Function on About.com
See also the Excel tutorials listed for Week 3.
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Study guide for next week's quiz
The September 23 quiz will be an on-paper quiz having two parts:
- Excel: Given a picture of a portion of an Excel spreadsheet, you will be expected to write appropriate formulas for the specified cells. The formulas will involve some of the functions that have been covered in lab and/or in tutorial material. These may include SUM, COUNT, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, and especially the IF function. They may also include the basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), plus the relational operators, (such as
<,>,<=, and>=), which we've often seen used within logical expressions. Also you will need to know the difference between absolute and relative addressing of cells (e.g. $A$2 vs. A2), and you will need to the date formulas we covered in class (the DATE, TODAY, and DAYS360 functions, and the use of simple subtraction to compute the number of days between two dates). - HTML: As on the previous quiz, you will be expected to write out the HTML for a trivially short page which will be dscribed on the quiz. You will be expected to know all the HTML we have covered in class so far. You will be expected to know how to create HTML links using the
atag with thehrefattribute, and you will be expected to know how to use thebody,p(paragraph),head,title, andhtmltags. (See the HTML tutorials.)
To prepare for the quiz, you will need practice using all the above-named functions. To that end, it is recommended that you not only do the homework but also play with examples in the Excel tutorials for all four weeks up to now. Make sure, especially, that you get practice with IF functions, including nested IF functions.
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