Differences between the Office Suites

11 Friday Oct 2013

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I often get asked what the differences are between different versions of Microsoft Office. Here is a couple of websites that gives you some of that information….

http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-ie/Whats-new/Pages/Article.aspx?cbcid=75

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178954.aspx

http://blogs.gartner.com/guy-creese/2012/07/17/office-2013-vs-2010/

 

 

 

Welcome Excel Level 2 Students!

11 Friday Oct 2013

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Welcome to Excel 2010 level 2! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Excel folder on the right. The book for this class has the ISBN number of 978-0-76384-315-1 and I encourage you to check for used ones on http://www.Amazon.com . There is a Level 1 and Level 2 book, ISBN 9780763843106. It might be cheaper. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

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Welcome Windows Students

05 Saturday Oct 2013

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Welcome to Windows! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Intro folder on the right. There is no book for this class. But I encourage you to check out some computer books at local book stores to supplement what we will be discussing in this class. This class is 4 Saturdays from 8-12. Remember, your attendance is critical, so please attend if you can. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

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Computer measurements

28 Saturday Sep 2013

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I often get asked what is a megabyte, etc…

So I added a link to the right called measurements that will take you to a nice list of a whole bunch of computer related measurments.

http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/links/dataRate/DataMeasurementChart.html

see also….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_information

How do they relate?

  • 1 bit – answer to an yes/no question
  • 1 byte – a number from 0 to 255.
  • 90 bytes: enough to store a typical line of text from a book.
  • 512 bytes = ½ KiB: the typical sector of a hard disk.
  • 1024 bytes = 1 KiB: the classical block size in UNIX filesystems.
  • 2048 bytes = 2 KiB: a CD-ROM sector.
  • 4096 bytes = 4 KiB: a memory page in x86 (since Intel 80386).
  • 4 kB: about one page of text from a novel.
  • 120 kB: the text of a typical pocket book.
  • 1 MB – a 1024×1024 pixel bitmap image with 256 colors (8 bpp color depth).
  • 3 MB – a three minute song (128k bitrate)
  • 650-900 MB – an CD-ROM
  • 1 GB – 114 minutes of uncompressed CD-quality audio at 1.4 Mbit/s
  • 15 GB – number of bytes Google offers you for free.
  • 8/16 GB – size of a normal flash drive
  • 4 TB – The size of a $300 hard disk
  • 966 EB – prediction of the volume of the whole internet in 2015

Welcome Intro to Computers Students!

07 Saturday Sep 2013

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Welcome to Intro to Computers! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Intro folder on the right. There is no book for this class. But I encourage you to check out some computer books at local book stores to supplement what we will be discussing in this class. This class is 4 Saturdays from 8-12. Remember, your attendance is critical, so please attend if you can. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

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Excel Students Welcome!

04 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Welcome to Beg. Excel 2010! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Excel folder on the right. The book for this class has the ISBN number of 978-0-76384-314-4 and I encourage you to check for used ones on http://www.Amazon.com . If you plan on taking the second part of the class, check for the Level 1 and Level 2 book, ISBN 9780763843106. It might be cheaper then buying two books. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

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Welcome Power Point Students!

08 Wednesday May 2013

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Welcome Power Point Students! I am glad to have you in the class. I am looking forward to spending the next 4 weeks with you. I promise I will make it as informative and enjoyable as possible. Hopefully the time will fly by! The book I will reference for this class has the ISBN number of 9781423905240 for the 2007 book, 978-0-538-74716-5 for the 2010 book. Look to this page for additional information and any handouts. My contact info:

Steve Simpson
626-256-0302
simpsongcc@live.com

Here are the dates for Spring 2013 session

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Spring 2013

Feb. 18 (M) Washington Day—Campus closed

Feb. 19 (T) Instruction begins for the spring semester

April 15-20 (M-Sat) Spring Break

May 27 (M) Memorial Day—Campus closed

June 5-12 (W-W) Final Examinations

June 12 (W) End of the spring semester

June 12 (W) Commencement

Saturday Classes— During the spring 2013 semester, there will be no Saturday classes on April 20

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Excel Students

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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Welcome to Beg. Excel 2010! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Excel folder on the right. The book for this class has the ISBN number of 978-0-76384-314-4 and I encourage you to check for used ones on http://www.Amazon.com . I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

Contract Information: (626) 256-0302 https://simpsongcc.wordpress.com simpsongcc@live.com

Word Students!

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Welcome to the Beg. Word 2010! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list on the right. The book for this class has the ISBN number of 978-0763843007 (full book 978-0763842994) and I encourage you to check for used ones on http://www.Amazon.com . I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

Contract Information: (626) 256-0302 https://simpsongcc.wordpress.com simpsongcc@live.com

Self-driving cars!

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Long hailed as one of the safest car producers in the world, Volvo hopes to retain that reputation by introducing vehicles that can avoid passenger injuries on their own by the year 2020. Its plans hinge on eliminating the largest cause of road accidents — the drivers themselves. The head of development for the program is convinced that driver-less cars are the future and that Volvo will be the first one there. The main technology underpinning Volvo’s autonomous automobiles is wireless internet, which would enable each car to be assigned a certain point on the road and give different vehicles the ability to interact with each other. The company is preparing to release an initial batch of autonomous vehicles, capable of speeds of up to 31 miles per hour, in 2014. We know from the SARTRE project that the automaker has been able to achieve autonomous speeds of 53 miles per hour in traffic for long distances, though they aren’t disclosing when those higher-speed prototypes would be publicly available.