IFS 104 Syllabus

Course Description

From the North Central web page:

I'll emphasize their emphasis... this will be a very "hands-on computer experience."

We'll meet Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00-3:50 pm at 13 Carnegie. Our first class is Tuesday May 3, 2005.

Textbook

Excel 2003 Complete Concepts and Techniques by Shelly, Cashman and Quasney

The text has a couple of accompanying web sites:

• The home of all the Shelly/Cashman books: www.scseries.com
• The companion site for our textbook contains, among other things, the "data disk" with all the examples used in the assignments:  http://www.scsite.com/catalog/viewtitle.cfm?isbn=0-619-20033-2

Instructor

My name is Bill Krieger. I am a part-time professor in the Computer Science department. Go:

• Office: Carnegie 309
• Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday morning from 10:00 to noon AND Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00... look for me in my office or in the 2nd floor computer labs.
• Email: wtkrieger@noctrl.edu
• Web site: william.krieger.faculty.noctrl.edu

If these office hours are no convenient for you, then please see/email me, and we will arrange a better meeting time.

Grading

Grades will be based on the following:

Late homework and lab assignments will not be accepted unless you work it out with me before the deadline.

Final grades for the class will be determined using the standard North Central scale:

A note on academic integrity... plagiarism is a severe offense. It is considered plagiarism if any part of the work you submit has been written by another person. In the event of plagiarism, actions that may be taken include a zero on the assignment, notification of the Dean, withdrawal from the course, assigning a grade of F for the course, or worse.

Please see the University's policy regarding plagiarism if you have any further questions.

Schedule

Ah, planning... this is tentative, but you can count on covering most of Chapter 1-6.

Of course, we'll also have the Final Exam during finals week. I may be substituting some alternative material for Chapter 6... we'll see.