FALL 1999
Microcomputer Applications and Systems Integration
FALL 1999
Lesson 12 and ODBC concepts will utilize this
diagram to understand Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) and its use
as an Excel Addin, as well as a standalone program. We did this in
a hands-on class
Quiz on Thursday, November 18th will cover Lessons 2, 9, 10
and 11 of the textbook and related lab experieces and handouts. You have
done the Invoice Maker user interface program as well as Rock, Paper,
Scissors, so userforms and Lesson 11 experience is a cinch to be on the
test. Also the Metals applications (gold, silver, bronze, tin, diamonds,
etc.)
There will be a few PhotoShop questions, similar to the sample
quiz handout from the Tuesday, November 16th class.
The quiz will NOT
cover database concepts, HTML FORMS, PERL or VBScript. That can wait
until the final.
If you need the handouts of old quiz questions, see my office door, 323
Wright Hall. I will try to keep several copies taped up there.
Thursday, November 4th VBScript and Frames
example. VBScript is easier that PERL, especially since is is very
similar to the VBA we are learning from the textbook. THIS REQUIRES
MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER to work.
Read Lesson 12 of the textbook, especially regarding
MS Query and ODBC. We used Excel and ODBC and Query at the very end of
the lab class.
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:16:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: MARK JACOBSON
Subject: Metals due on Tuesday...
Hi 022 students,
Do not forget that the Metals project is due on Tuesday. Please
turn in a printout of your VBA code and a screen snapshot of the
application.
You may have an extra week to finish the Invoice Maker Microsoft Word
VBA project. Note that is is WORD 97 for the INVOICE MAKER, not Excel!
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I will answer questions about the Invoice Maker project on Tuesday
in class, if you have some. I will also demonstrate how you would move
a VBA UserForm and its associated code over into Word 97 from Excel 97, for
those of you who might have done the entire project in Excel by mistake.
Mark
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Take home quiz is to be given out on Tuesday, October 12th and will
be collected on Tuesday, October 19th. We will have this take home
quiz instead of an in-class quiz. The quiz must be turned in by class
time on Tuesday, October 19th. In other words, 2 p.m. at 10/19.
- The assignments and take-home quiz email note from October 12th
contains
information about what is due when.
-
Your journal of Lesson 11 experience from the textbook will be
due by one week from next Tuesday, which is on Tuesday, October 19th.
You need to turn in one sheet of paper that is filled front and back
with your notes (journal or diary) of the experience of doing Lesson
11 of the textbook.
- See what you can do with the FORM tag and CGI (using PERL).
-
The two question quiz example
is my first crude attempt at both the FORM tag and a PERL script
program to allow you to have your answers graded.
- The answer is Converse for Q1. I am not Contrapositive about
that, however!
- The Variant variables and Dim
VBA experiment is due on Tuesday, October 5th. Also due with it
are the two functions to extract COBRA user ids and generate 4 character
passwords.
- See my office door if you missed the handouts on Tuesday, Sept 28th.
There are additional VBA macros to go with the above VBA experiment.
- Here are some screen snapshots of code needed for 10/5 macros.
- The INSTR() function to find UNI
and
to find the AT symbol (@) in userName@cns.uni.edu data. The VBA
InStr()
function does the same work as the Excel FIND() function!
- The INSTR function code window only.
- Picking 2 random letters
function
techniques can be applied to your generate a random password macro.
- Excel worksheet snapshot of
the use of the random 2 letter function.
- Hands-on class on Thursday, September 30th.
See the Quiz 1 outline/study guide for
the
Tuesday,
September 23rd quiz event.
The quiz will last about 25 minutes
and is
guaranteed
to be or not to be
a fun experience.
See my 323 Wright office door, if you missed
the hands-on lab class on Thursday, 9/16/99.
- Week one
- Read Lesson 1 (Making a Macro Do Simple Tasks).
- Read the
Chapter 1 What is VBA? web material.
- Answer the homework questions that are due
at the start of class on Tuesday, August 31st.
- Week two
- Hands-on class in Wright 112 on Tuesday 8/31
- Homework due at start of class on 8/31
- Read Lesson 2 (Making a Macro Do Complex Tasks)
- 1st macro programming project has
been
assigned. It
was handed out on Thursday, September 2nd.
- See the user
interface for the racing rectangles game.
All rectangles are in the starting
blocks.
- See another user
interface snapshot, the exciting finish of
the one of the races. The finish line dancing rectangle touchdown
celebration is NOT shown.
- See the
RaceEm macro code
for the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) program. You have this on
a handout, but the Photoshop annotations are useful to see and study here.
- See the
ResetRace macro, as well as the pauseDelayAmt() macro.
The screen snapshots of the VBA code window are annotated with
Photoshop graphics, so they should be helpful to study.
You have this code on your handout.
- Due date: by Thursday, September 16th
Demonstrate working race game to
instructor in Wright 112
- Week three (Labor Day)
- PLEASE READ THIS (Racing
Rectangles assignment):
Thursday,
9/9/99 VIP COBRA
email
note about Racing
Rectangles assignment.
- Classroom and lab exercises will focus on techniques
and concepts needed for racing rectangles assignment.
- Pages 205-210 of Lesson 9 of the textbook should be
read and reviewed as you study over the toolbar assignment handout
and review the Tuesday, Sep 7th class lecture notes and demonstration.
- Read Lesson 9 (Launching Macros with Events).
- Hands-on class in Wright 112 on Thursday 9/9.
- 1st macro exercise can be demonstrated in
or after the lab, for
those who are finished with it on 9/9.
- Week four (Sep 14 and 16)
- Hands-on class Thursday, Sep 16th.
Topics:
- Graphics using Photoshop introduction.
- Adding Photoshop produced graphics
to a web page.
- Introduction to Perl 5. Adding a
random
quote feature to your web site.
- Demonstrating your racing rectangles game, if you
have not had it graded (checked off) yet. I prefer
to grade it in Wright 112, but if you have it on
diskette and catch me in my office, that works too.
- Week five (Sep 21 and 23)
-
Customized toolbar and macros due on 9/21/Tuesday
- Quiz on Tuesday, September 21st (25 minutes of
class)
- The quiz will cover Excel 97 and macros and VBA
handouts and experience doing the two VBA macros assignments.
- It will NOT cover PERL and the web page
stuff.
- It will NOT cover any Photoshop
- It will cover the 10 questions material you did for the 1st homework.
For assignment number 1 questions and for more background information on
Microsoft Excel Programming, macros, and using Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA),
Chapter 1 What is VBA? has free excerpts from the IDG BOOKS Excel
Programming For Windows 95 For Dummies.
Homework #1 questions (using the online material linked to above).
- What does the work macro stand for? What does it not stand for?
What Greek or Latin root does it come from?
- Of the 10 most common uses of VBA macros, the author states that
"One or two of them may push your button". Rank the top 3
and tell why the 1st and the 2nd and the 3rd are the most
interesting to you?
- What are the 5 advantages of using Excel macros and VBA?
- What are the 4 disadvantages of using VBA, according to the
online material from the What Are the Pros and the Cons section?
- How do you perform actions in VBA?
- What does a VBA module consist of?
- What does VBA manipulate? What lesson of our textbook will
probably teach you the most about those?
- Give an example of a collection?
- You can think of a property as a ________________ for an object?
Objects have properties. (Fill in the blank question).
- Give an example of the use of the DOT separator. The DOT is
just a period, in terms of syntax.
The material below here is from fall semester of 1998, so you
can ignore it until it is moved above the birdies graphic or removed.
Click to see MSQuery location
- Here is the help page for the end of
semester homework assignments. If you let me know about problems doing
the Lesson 12 Creating an Enterprise Information System, I'll be able to
provide information to everyone here.
- The final exam is comprehensive.
Here is the final exam study guide.
You can have a one
page, handwritten "cheat
sheet" for the midterm. See the study guide for details.
- Some information on
creating animated gif files
and using photoshop to create the individual frames.
- Special effects using PhotoShop. Channels and the Render Lighting
filter.
-
Window ClipArt
after it has been enhanced. The Window ClipArt instructions will be
updated and elaborated on here later today.
- See the
Gate clipart object
after it has been disassembled and
enhanced. We looked at this in class on Tuesday, September 29th.
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Here is the link get the Waite press eZone and browse to find
chapter one of the Photoshop book
that we looked at in lab on Monday, November 9th. The handout from
that class has these instructions on how to get to the Photoshop book.
- Click the eZone link,
- then click the Learn Zone link or the Learn book icon,
- then click the guest user link,
- then click the Photoshop 4 link,
- then click the 1. Introduction to Photoshop link,
- then click the Read link (or the Quiz link) for Lesson 2 or for
Lesson 3.
- Please read Lessons 2 and 3 of Sherry London's online Photoshop
book. After you have studied each lesson, take the Photoshop on-line quiz
for Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 of Chapter 1 of the Adobe PhotoShop 4
Interactive Course. Bring your hand-written questions and answers to
the
hands-on class on Thursday, September 17th.
- Lesson 2 Photoshop's Anatomy -- has 5 quiz questions.
- Lesson 3 Photoshop Tools -- has 5 quiz questions.
- Prelab Assignment:You will turn in the fully written out
questions and all of the
multiple choice answers, even the ones you did not circle. This is
due as a pre-lab assignment, so it is due by 11 a.m. on Thursday,
September 17th. Doing this exercise will prepare you for the Photoshop
and graphics
portion of the lab for week #4.
Very simple animated gif file, using 8 XPaint frames.
- Quiz one will be on Wednesday, July 16th.
- Quiz two will be handed out or emailed and will be a take-home quiz.
- Quiz three will be on Tuesday, July 22nd.
- Project phase one task will be handed out on Monday, July 21st. The phase one project assignment will
involve choosing your tentative project idea and discussing an outline of its planned features, probably having
some OLE, some VBA macros and some PowerPoint or Word documentation or files involved as well.
Mark Jacobson .....
University of Northern Iowa .....
email: jacobson@cns.uni.edu