Instructor: Tina Tian

General Info Office: RLC 203A Office Hours: Tuesday, Friday 1:00 – 2:00 PM Wednesday 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM or to schedule an appointment Website: home.manhattan.edu/~tina.tian/

About the Course Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11: :50 AM RLC 105

About the Course Tuesday, Friday 2:00 - 3:15 PM RLC 105

Textbook Computer Applications for Life Sciences, Revised Edition, Joan Harnett, Linus Learning, ISBN 13:

Grading 1 st Midterm Exam (around the 5 th week)15% 2 nd Midterm Exam (around the 10 th week)15% Final Exam30% Lab Assignments and Homework 35% Class performance and participation 5%

Attendance policy Attendance is required. Students are expected to attend all classes and will be held responsible for all material covered during each class.

Electronic Devices Please do not check or visit websites that are not relevant to the course during class. It is a distraction, both for you and (more importantly) for your fellow classmates. Please keep your phones silent during class.

About the Homework Submission is on Moodle (lms.manhattan.edu). Due in a week after being announced No late work is accepted. Start the homework assignments early

Homework Policy You may discuss the homework with other students. However, you must independently write up your own solutions.

Advices Attend classes Take notes Stay close to the computers and try out the examples Ask questions! Save your programs (on the home server or in a flash drive).

Stretch break

About Excel 2010 Well.. it is not free. But it is available on all campus computers. RLC 203 is open until 10PM library

What you can do with Excel MS Word: create and edit documents MS Excel: create, edit and analyze data that’s organized into lists or tables spreadsheet

What you can do with Excel “How many workdays are there between today and the summer holiday?” Grades And more!

Common Spreadsheets Business documents financial statements, invoices, expense reports.. Personal documents weekly budgets, shopping lists... Scientific data experimental observations, models and medical charts Excel really shines in its ability to help you analyze a spreadsheet’s data.

Example StateCigarettes per personLung CancerLeukemia California Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Massachusetts Minnesota New York Alaska Nevada Utah Texas Deaths per year per 100,000 people

Scatter Plot

3-D Pie Chart

Probability Distribution

So don’t look down on Excel!

The Ribbon Change from Excel 2003’s overly complex, button- heavy toolbars to Excel 2010’s super toolbar. Everything you want to do in Excel is packed into the ribbon.

KeyTips Try press the Alt key. Some other shortcuts: Ctrl + C (Copy) Ctrl + V (Paste) Ctrl + X (Cut) Ctrl + S (Save)

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