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Welcome to the PI Foundation Basic Computing Courses

These exercises prepared for these courses taught by Vance Stevens, Computing Lecturer, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi UAE:
Fall 2003 Comp032/082 | Spring 2004 Comp082s

Navigation: Introduction to Computing | Keyboarding and MS Office skills | The Internet
Introduction to Computing:
Pay attention to your teacher's presentation. What did you learn? Find out here:

Lecture in 032

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Week 01 Day 1

Introduction to Computing Part 1- Why we learn about computers, and how

Week 01 Day 2

Introduction to Computing Part 2 - The parts of a computer and their functions

Week 01 Day 3

Introduction to Computing Part 3 - The desktop
Week 02 Day 1 Introduction to Computing Part 4 - The program window

Navigation: Introduction to Computing | Keyboarding and MS Office skills | The Internet
Keyboarding and MS Office skills
How do you improved your keyboarding and office skills at the PI?

Lesson

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Make a Desktop Shortcut

Learn how to create a shortcut on the desktop to DOS Keyboarding Tutor

Excel: Track and report your typing speed and accuracy

Steps involved in recording your progress in Excel, producing a chart, writing up results and explaining them in a memo in Word

The PowerPoint program window See Index of Exercises including PPT Panes and View Buttons

Word challenge 1

Learn how to create a Calendar in Word according to the PDF model and answer the 8 questions at the bottom of the worksheet.

Navigation: Introduction to Computing | Keyboarding and MS Office skills | The Internet
The Internet:
Here are some worksheets for using the Internet (12 lessons)

Lectures in 032 / 082

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Teachers' notes:

If you wish to start with an Introduction and overview, please find one in the R drive under Comp032 / Internet (this might work, might not)

Lesson 1

Learn how to create a blog in Blogger: Create an account, steps 1 - 7; Your first post, step 8

Lesson 2

Learn how to post and edit in Blogger: Posting and editing posts, steps 9 - 10

Lesson 3

Learn HTML Steps 1 - 5

Lesson 4

Learn HTML Steps 6 - 7
See an exercise on: Writing the most basic HTML structure tags

Lesson 5

Learn HTML Steps 8 - 10
See an exercise on: Placing End Tags correctly

Lesson 6

Learn how to change the template to put your own photos and links on your blog
See an exercise on: Troubleshooting your code

Lesson 7-9

Learn how to search for pictures and links on the Internet to put on your blog

Lesson 10-12

Learn how to evaluate links you find on the Internet

Advanced HTML lessons for 082 students

Internet and Web Search Syllabus (Spring 2004)

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This update: May 10, 2004
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