Course Name    CS8 Introduction to Computing
Term                    2006 Winter
Instructor        Toby L. Gustafuson
TA                         Danhua (Danny) Guo

Announcement
  • Some of the links may not work any more. If you want to see them, please send me an Email
  • March 8 I would really appreciate your help if you go to www.ieval.ucr.edu (ID: UCR Email ID, PSW: UCR Email password ) to give my TA evaluation
  • March 1 Everybody has to show up for next week's lab.(week 9) We are supposed to do a separate lab on HTML.
  • Jan.25 You will start to work on HTML today. If you have any problems, check out the EXAMPLE here.
  • Jan.9  Make sure you've prepared the SID and PIN before the first lab so that I could help issue your CS account

Lab Instructions
  • Score
    • There're 20 points for each lab (including 5 points for attendance)
    • The lab section takes 25% of your final score for CS8
  • Lab Rules
    • Acceptable excuses for lab
      • It should be an authentic certificate of your not being able to come, e.g. a doctor note (traffic jam is not always an acceptable excuse).
      • I would prefer your notice of absence in advance of the lab.
    • Time limit for you to make up lab --- 2 weeks
    • No "E-mail lab" --- please show up
    • No "switching lab" --- it will bring trouble to you, me and the other TAs
    • Something that are not supposed to appear in lab
      • Cell phones (Please either mute it or simply turn it off)
      • Food
      • Video Games (I know it's fun, but after all, this is not "Introduction to Computer Games")
    • Lateness
      • Please make your schedule and try to be on time. If you are unfortunately late for more than 20 minutes of the lab, you will lose your attendance credit for that lab.
  • Office Hour



  • Wednesday 3:00pm - 5:30pm



    Thursday
    12:15pm - 1:45pm



    at EBU II Room110 (TA Office)



    Appointment for other time is available depending on schedule.
  • Contact
    • Feel free to write an Email to dguo@cs.ucr.edu if you have any questions about the lab.
    • Please note that when you write me an Email, make sure to contain [CS8] in the subject part(just like the mail I sent to you previously), so that I could organize the email in a better way. Thanks.

Lab Assignment (For more information, please refer to Toby's website)
  • You will find the necessary MS-Office documents here. (Just choose the file by name indicated on your lab manual.)
  • For HTML Assignments, please click on here. (There is a basic example of how html works, check it out.)




Lab#.
Date
Job(s) to do
Assignment




Lab.
Jan9~Jan13
To get your CS account. Please have you StudentID(860XXXXXX), UCR Email(XXX001@ucr.edu), PermPin(on GROWL) ready before the class. (And this is also what you need to prepare if you want to get your account  back once you lose it.)






I will enroll you to the system one by one.




Lab1
Jan16~Jan20
MS-Word 1 (on page 165 - 215 of the lab manual)





Lab2
Jan23~Jan27
MS-Word 2 (on page 245 - 300 of the lab manual)
HTML-1




Lab3
Jan30~Feb3
MS-Excel 1 (on page 501 - 561 of the lab manual)
HTML-2




Lab4
Feb6~Feb10
MS-Excel 2 (on page 589 - 643 of the lab manual)
HTML-3




Lab5
Feb13~Feb17
MS-Powerpoint 1 (on page 965 - 1008 of the lab manual)
HTML-4




Lab6
Feb20~Feb24
MS-Powerpoint 2 (on page 1035 - 1064 of the lab manual)
HTML-5




Lab7
Feb27~Mar3
MS-Access 1 (on page 741 - 795 of the lab manual)





Lab8
Ma6~Mar10
HTML lab (Make sure you have done all the HTML files by this week.)
HTML-6




Lab9
Mar13~Mar17
TBD


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