To develop a sufficient consciousness and confidence with the machine and its parts i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse.

To make understand the possibilities of enhancement of PC applications by means of additional devices and tools (laser printer, ink jet printer, scanner, digital camera).

To develop a sufficient confidence with typing and then word processing, spread-sheet, Internet.

The class has been using mainly 4 Pentium 200 in network, loading WIN �95 and Office �97. Printer device HP Laser and a HP Scanner. This 4 PC were connected to the Internet. When more than four students a second group has been working mainly on 486 WIN �95 loading WIN 3.1 and Microsoft Works for Windows (in order to emulate Office �97).

Topics

1. A detailed description of the Hardware, by opening more than one machine, in order to show:

• Mother-board
• Hard-disk
• Cards
• Memory SIMM
• CPU
• Modem
• Printers
• Scanner

2. A detailed description of the environment WIN�95 and namely:

• Desktop
• Taskbar
• Programs
• Documents
• Settings
• Find
• Run
• Shutdown

1. A detailed description of the accessories of WIN�95 and namely:

• Calculator
• Word Pad
• Paint
• Note Pad
• Internet Tools
• Scandisk
• Defragmenter

1. Drawing lessons (Free-Hand) by using Paint. Students have been drawing and learnt the essential tools, and namely:

• Create a new drawing
• Pencil, brush, airbrush, circles, rectangular, curves
• Save a drawing on HD
• Save a drawing on Floppy Disk
• Open an existing drawing
• Print a drawing
• Type inside a drawing choosing font size and style
• Cut and paste
• Copy and paste
• Zoom a view for sharp drawing

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1. Typing lessons by using Word Pad WIN �95, Word Processor included in Microsoft Works for Windows, and WORD �97. And namely:

• Create a new document
• Edit a document
• Save a document on HD
• Save a document on Floppy Disk
• Open an existing document
• Print preview
• Print a document
• Cut and paste
• Copy and paste
• Zoom a view
• Format a paragraph
• Font size
• Font style
• Bold
• Italic
• underline
• Highlight
• Header and footer
• bullets and numbers
• Insert image and objects
• Create a table
• Convert a text into table and vice versa
• Create an HTML document
• Create Hyperlinks
• Project WEB pages

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1. Spreadsheet lessons by using EXCEL �97 or WORKS spreadsheet and namely:

• Open a book
• Save a book on HD
• Save a book on Floppy Disk
• Open an existing book
• Print preview
• Print a book or a sheet
• Add cells, rows, columns and sheets

• The cells and their content
• Cut and paste
• Copy and paste
• Labels
• Numbers
• Formulas
• The use of $
• The =SUM formula
• The =MIN formula
• The =AVERAGE formula
• The =MAX formula
• The =IF formula
• Creating a sheet for business planning and simulation
• Creating a sheet for orders and invoicing
• The use of spreadsheet as a Data Base
• Fields, record, filters
• Searching
• Sorting
• Filtering

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